Table of Contents

Introduction

Professions


• Accountant: You can’t spend all day examining the accounts
  
• Architect: Can there be order in chaos?
  
• Attorney: One should attempt to search for the redeeming features in his fellow
  
• Businessman: A Jew should approach his spiritual obligations with the same zeal that the entrepreneur displays toward his business.
  
• Carpenter: A craftsman approaches his work with tremendous care
  
• Coal Miner: If you dig deeply you can find good things
  
• Dry Cleaner: Just because it’s a little soiled doesn’t mean it has to be thrown away
  
• Engineer: Even the smallest detail is significant
  
• Entrepreneur: Sometimes the activity is more rewarding than the result
  
• Life Insurance Salesman: It’s good to plan for a long life.
  
• Printer: Technological advances in publishing and in our approach to life
  
• Storekeeper: Location, location, location
  
• Tailor: A needle and thread have their spiritual equivalents
  

Medical Science

• Cardiologist: If we want good circulation, our relationships have to be intact.
  
• Disease: Certain negatives are more prevalent today than ever before but new therapies are also being uncovered
  
• Injection: We must rid ourselves of impurities before we pierce our fellow man
  
• Pharmacy: When it comes to dangerous substances be sure to follow instructions
  
• Resistant Bacteria: If it’s repeated enough, it can take on a whole new form
  
• Surgeon: If we had the eyes, we could see kindness in the most cruel events
  
• Syringe: To absorb good things, we first must create a vacuum
  
• Vaccine: A little dose of opposition can prepare us for the bigger battles ahead
  

The Arts

• Art: Light and shade can both be light
  
• Artist: The craft of the artist is to see the true nature of things
  
• Paintings: In the search for truth we must bend just a drop
  
• A Song: A story of bondage and freedom portrays the mystery of life
  

Science

• The Atomic Age: A very small amount of matter can have tremendous energy hidden within
  
• Chemistry: A small substance can affect something many times its size
  
• Electricity: If the power is not connected, it can’t give light
  
• Geometry: The relationship of the center to the circle
  
• Laser Technology: The importance of focus
  
• Mathematics: Age old methods and knowledge can still solve contemporary problems
  
• Nature: The structure of a tree and the service of man
  
• Solar Energy: If we don’t radiate we might as well be a black hole
  

Sports

• Baseball: Who wins? In baseball and in life
  
• Baseball II: Who are you — a player or a spectator?
  
• Chess: Only the lowly pawns can reach the highest levels
  
• Soccer: The opponent brings out our desire to win
  

Miscellaneous

• Automobile: If you overuse the starter, you’ll soon need a tow
  
• Computer: You can use it before you know how it works
  
• Factory: Even if the central regulating mechanism is not visible, it still has to be there
  
• Mortgage: Assuming obligations for the future
  
• Recycling: We sometimes need to be cleansed and purified before we can be useful again as a vessel to serve G-d
  
• Sauna: A good smack must be administered only in the right time and the right place
  
• Watch: We allow our lives to be governed by the seemingly unrelated actions of a collection of cog wheels

Epilogue