December 19, 2004

• Sunday Sermon
  
  on Saturday’s Numbers

  Today’s New York Times on a rabbi who died in Jerusalem on Sunday, Dec. 5:

  “In the 1950′s, he was a vocal advocate for the relaxation of New
  York City’s blue laws, which forbade many kinds of commerce on Sundays
  but not on Saturdays. The laws were repealed in the 1970′s. Solomon
  Joseph Sharfman was born on Nov. 1, 1915, in Treblinka, Poland; his
  family immigrated to the United States five years later. His father,
  Rabbi Label Sharfman, worked as a shochet, or ritual slaughterer….”

  Saturday’s lottery numbers from Pennsylvania, the State of Grace:

  Saturday Midday:  144
  Saturday Evening: 360

  A Sunday Sermon:

  “Once upon a time there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly
  in love with a beautiful dot. But the dot, though perfect in every way,
  only had eyes for a wild and unkempt squiggle. All of the line’s
  romantic dreams were in vain, until he discovered . . . angles! Now,
  with newfound self-expression, he can be anything he wants to be–a
  square….”

  Related material:

  

  (See Song in Red and Gray
  and The Dot and the Line.)

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