“Anger in a home is like rottenness in fruit.”
Talmud Sotah 3 (200 CE) central text of Rabbinic Judaism
STILL, WE CAN LEARN HOW NOT TO RUIN OUR DAY – “It mattered little whether our resentments were justified or not. A burst of temper could spoil a day, and a well-nursed grudge could make us miserably ineffective.” (12 & 12, p. 90)
Easy Jewish Meditation (11:23)
Betcha By Golly Wow – The Stylistics on Soul Train (2:51)
Revenge of Fox :
Once a hungry fox entered a village. He went near a field with large juicy pumpkins. He looked around and saw no one around. So he quickly bit into a pumpkin. Just as he finished eating it, the farmer whose field it was, rushed to him and said, “How dare you eat my pumpkin?”
“Please sir, I was hungry and I ate just one of them.” But the angry farmer took a piece of cloth and dipped it in kerosene oil. Then he tied the oily cloth around the fox’s tail and lit a match to it. The fox’s tail was on fire and he was in pain. Now the fox was angry, “You are punishing me for just one pumpkin. Now it’s my time to take revenge.”
The fox went to the wheat field that belonged to the same farmer. The ripe wheat was standing to be harvested. The fox jumped around the field with his burning tail. Immediately the crops caught fire and soon turned to ashes.
The farmer thought, “If I had forgiven the fox’s small sin, he would not have caused such a huge damage to me.” (http://www.english-for-students.com/Revenge-of-Fox.html)
I try and vent my feelings with others I trust to help them lose their power and cause destructiveness.
Two days until the major holiday of the western world. This year I was privileged to learn that the very best gifts I have received were being of service and witnessing the joy of others who have so few material goods. Guess joy is the ultimate “inside job.”