This world is, well, not what it could be, and I am being polite. Years ago, I would have said it lost its moral compass.

Evil is so hard to fathom. We know it exists, we see people do it, and we might be guilty of it on some level as well. But the extremes to which some evil people go…how do they do it?

TIME IS ONE of those concepts that we take for granted because it just seems so obvious.

THERE IS AN old joke that maybe you never heard, you heard but forgot, or you don’t mind hearing again.

THERE IS A mitzvah, in this week’s parsha, of not placing a stumbling block before the blind. It is not talking about an actual stumbling block before a person who is actually blind.