You never heard of Planet Hooston?(If you know where it is, you might have a super memory.... If you don't, maybe this will jog your memory.)
Besides the eeriness (today) of General Zod mistaking a lake for Houston, it's somehow comforting to hear him call water "a very strange surface."
That's our cue that he's an alien. It's OK to fear and loathe him.
And so Hooston in the movie stands for Planet Earth - we're all on this spaceship together.
If you're not in Texas, the real Houston seems so far away, it might as well be another planet.
But the people there are suffering majorly, and it's super easy to help them:
Houston Federation
Texas Chabad
Be generous. Many of these families have lost everything but the proverbial shirts on their proverbial backs.
They're drained, they're sad, they're scared, they're hugely uncomfortable, they're in shock.
You know, when your street turns into a river and there are fish swimming in your living room, you might just pause and say, "Is this really happening?"
There's your question for the table: Did you ever experience something so strange that you said, "Is this really happening, or am I dreaming?"
If not, what would it take?
Shabbat Shalom
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