i to the Power of One?

 

 

 

 

 

The purpose of this email is to get that Shabbat table conversation out of quarantine... Please print and share...

Are you counting down to Pesach?

Let's turn the way-back machine waaaay back. All the way to high school.

You'd rather not? Bear with me. I'd like to turn it to high school algebra.

Specifically the unit on imaginary numbers.

Ring a bell?

I'll give you a hint: what's the square root of -1?

Coming back to you?

I'm guessing that with a little practice it will come flooding back, in a rush of pure joy of course.

You see, one thing I left off of this week's mid-week email (7 Ways to Help Someone) is:

#8 - Find a kid who is distance-learning and offer to help them with their math.

First question for your table: What else should be added to that list?

Speaking of altruism, last night I heard the following thought:

Covid-19 probably began with a single person becoming infected on November 17. (We don't know what he did — did he get too close to an infected bat? Did he do something imprudent? But it seems likely to have been a single person.)

Let's contemplate this thought:

Due to the actions of a single person, the entire world has been turned upside-down. 

Question for your table: If that's the potential damage from a single person, does the same potential apply to the good of a single person? Or is this potential limited to the proverbial rotten-apple?

Your answer should be double-spaced, 12-point font.... (sorry, parenting a brood of distance-learners is taking its toll....)

Shabbat Shalom 


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