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THE THINGS THAT MATTER
Rabbi Steven Leder writes, “Today in America, a lot of people believe only in what is good for them. Why? Because in many ways the highest ideal in America is freedom, and for many, that has come to mean the freedom to worry only about what is best for themselves. What makes me ‘feel good.’ What makes me ‘happy.’ What happens when we follow this most unjewish of all paths through life? It’s not the big things that will go wrong–murder, rape–most of us understand how immoral they are. It’s the little things that begin to disappear when we worry only about ourselves–things like civility, decency, courtesy.”