Blog/March 2009/Mar 20th
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March 20th (sorry, no devar torah this week -- my mind is too blank)
Hi again!
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It's been a wild week. Started as still unemployed on Sunday, but by Tuesday the New Company wanted me to start; so I started work on Tuesday. By the end of the week (actually just half an hour before I left on Thursday) I was given a brand-new, shiny MacBook Pro. I'm using it to compose the blog this week, since I need to get used to this funky new machine.
One interesting thing about using "public transportation" is you get to meet ... the "public". There are some interesting people taking the bus, to say the least. The thing is, some of the "public" don't seem to realize that they are in public, and that more than likely most people are not interested in their personal life. So they talk on their cel-phones at top volume. Got to find out a lot about my fellow passengers that way, though I wasn't interested.
The day I accepted the job offer, a headhunter tried to set me up with another job, also in Jerusalem. I found out yesterday that another former co-worker of mine also got a job. So the situation is not as bad as you might think, here -- even though the unemployment rate is 6.8%. I know that some say we must give more jobs to Arabs; but I say, no! We need to avoid giving Arabs jobs at all costs; even when a Jew would be more expensive to hire or might even do a worse job, for several reasons. First, we have a Torah obligation to help our fellow Jews (which has higher priority than the similar obligation to help anyone). So we obviously should employ our fellow Jews before we employ anyone else, but especially those who have proven themselves enemies. Second, when the Arabs cannot find work here, they will go elsewhere. Just as when they initially immigrated here from Egypt and Syria and other Arab countries, because the Jews who came here made it a place where one could get work. So by denying them an easy life, they will seek livelihood elsewhere and eliminate a major security problem plaguing us. Third, we have seen numerous incidents in the past few years, where a "trusted" Arab became an instrument of cold-blooded murder. So by not employing them, we also safeguard Jewish lives, another Torah obligation.
I better get busy getting the house in order for Shabbat -- normally by this time I've started that process, but I'm "feeling slow" this week. Plus, the Mac is really not easy for me to use, so it's taking me much longer than usual to do my thing. Sorry, next week should be better; and I hope to have more "interesting" things to say then.
Until next week,
Shabbat shalom!
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