19 Weeks and Choices We Make
Dear Friends, The weekly Scripture/Torah reading that we are reading today is from the book of Deuteronomy in the Portion Ekev. The following is a post from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks about this portion and expresses the power of gratitude. You can access the entire article by searching for Jonathan Sacks on Eikev which will have the footnotes. In the early 1990s, one of the great medical research exercises of modern times took place. It became known as the Nun Study. Some seven hundred American nuns, all members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the United States, agreed to allow their records to be accessed by a research team investigating the process of ageing and Alzheimer’s Disease. At the start of the study the participants were aged between 75 and 102.[1]What gave this study its unusual longitudinal scope is that sixty years earlier the very same nuns had been asked by their Mother Superior to write a brief autobiographical account of their life and their reasons...