RABBI WEIN A HOT SUMMER

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Summer in Israel is always hot but there are some that feel hotter than most others. I don’t know whether statistically this summer is hotter than average, but to this old rabbi it certainly has felt so. But the temperatures have been extremely high in most parts of the United States as well, so that my family there and I sympathize with each other when we speak on the phone - and then all of us somehow feel more comfortable than we did before we spoke. The rabbis have taught us that troubles and discomforts that are universal carry with them a portion of comfort as well. The adaptability of human beings, that enables them to live in all of the extreme climate zones of our earth, is one of the many wonders of human life. And certainly, air conditioning and central heating have tempered the effects of extreme weather conditions on human life. But a majority of the world’s human beings still live in extreme climate zones without any of these modern climate-conquering amenities.