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Polished Jews
By Rosally Saltsman
I bought some silver polish to polish my tarnished necklace.
As I write everything down not to forget to do it, I entered
polish jewelry on my list. Only I wrote it in shorthand so
what came out was, "polish Jew." Then I noticed what I had
written and thought, "Yeah, that, too."
We live in a very polluted atmosphere. Every day, we are
tarnished by physical, emotional and spiritual impurities
that taint our environment, our homes and our hearts.
Shouldn't we every once in a while, remember that we are
jewels in Hashem's crown and polish ourselves up a bit? I
don't mean the usual work on ourselves and self control we
try to exercise in our daily lives, I mean sitting ourselves
down and shining ourselves up a bit so that we glow with the
natural luster that is meant to shine forth from the precious
metal that we are.
Each of us is a gem in her own right and we refract and
reflect heavenly light with our unique and individual
sparkle. Every now and then we need to give ourselves a bit
of polish so that we are always displaying our inestimable
value.
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