Weekend-Before-The-Election Cheer-Me-Up

... with thanks to Ace, and to Yeshiva Son for passing it along.

 

  

 

I couldn't understand it back in 2008 when I saw Obama supporters crying at his election and inauguration... but I do now. This election means as much to me now as that did to them then.  Maybe left and right are not quite so different from one another after all; we all want just want to feel HOPE for the future.  

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Just one important caveat this time around -- from Tehillim (Psalms), Chapter 146.

 

3. Do not trust in princes, in the son of men, who has no salvation.		ג. אַל תִּבְטְחוּ בִנְדִיבִים בְּבֶן אָדָם | שֶׁאֵין לוֹ תְשׁוּעָה:
4. His spirit leaves, he returns to his soil; on that day, his thoughts are lost.		ד. תֵּצֵא רוּחוֹ יָשֻׁב לְאַדְמָתוֹ בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא אָבְדוּ עֶשְׁתֹּנֹתָיו:
5. Praiseworthy is he in whose help is the God of Jacob; his hope is in the Lord his God.		ה. אַשְׁרֵי שֶׁאֵל יַעֲקֹב בְּעֶזְרוֹ שִׂבְרוֹ עַל יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהָיו:
6. Who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, Who keeps truth forever.		ו. עֹשֶׂה | שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ אֶת הַיָּם וְאֶת כָּל אֲשֶׁר בָּם הַשֹּׁמֵר אֱמֶת לְעוֹלָם:
7. Who performs justice for the oppressed, Who gives bread to the hungry; the Lord sets loose the bound.		ז. עֹשֶׂה מִשְׁפָּט | לַעֲשׁוּקִים נֹתֵן לֶחֶם לָרְעֵבִים יְהֹוָה מַתִּיר אֲסוּרִים:
8. The Lord gives sight to the blind; the Lord straightens the bent; the Lord loves the righteous.		ח. יְהֹוָה | פֹּקֵחַ עִוְרִים יְהֹוָה זֹקֵף כְּפוּפִים יְהֹוָה אֹהֵב צַדִּיקִים:
9. The Lord guards the strangers; He strengthens the orphan and the widow, and He perverts the way of the wicked.		ט. יְהֹוָה | שֹׁמֵר אֶת גֵּרִים יָתוֹם וְאַלְמָנָה יְעוֹדֵד וְדֶרֶךְ רְשָׁעִים יְעַוֵּת:
10. The Lord will reign forever! Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Hallelujah!

 

 

Comments

[scp]

AGENDA: Grinding America Down (1:31:31) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc3_Kbga5Mo

[Elan]

I also like the Biblical injunction: when the prince can't do the job, you gotta let him go. We have survived bad princes before, and will survive this one too, whether he leaves sooner or later. But I share your hope about tomorrow's election, and we cannot ask for more than that the decision is in our own hands.