{"id":35310,"date":"2017-03-17T18:03:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T00:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=35310"},"modified":"2017-03-20T07:29:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T13:29:50","slug":"off-the-pulpit-trash-heap-and-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-trash-heap-and-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: Trash Heap and Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

\"Wolpe_edt\"

Such experiences remind me of the mania for preservation that drives the Jewish people. Why do we continually tend vast gardens of old learning?\u00a0In part because one never knows when a comment, an insight or interpretation, will spring to life in someone’s soul, and give the guidance that makes a difference.<\/p>\n

Joseph Brodsky was a Russian-Jewish Nobel prize winning poet. He proposed a vast poetry publishing project:\u00a0“Books find their readers. And if they will not sell, well, let them lie around, absorb dust, rot, and disintegrate. There is always going to be a child who will fish a book out of the garbage heap. I was such a child, for what it’s worth; so, perhaps, were some of you.” So, I hope, are all of us.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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