The Proper Passage Of Events

It’s funny. I don’t mean haha funny, but life is funny. How it changes.

I went to Jerusalem to meet friends after the conference in Petach Tikva and I went to the Old City where I used to work and where I used to go to the Wall.

On the way I met Hillel, whom I didn’t know – and who was playing and I liked his playing. He saw me and asked whether there was anyone I wanted to hear and I said Paco de Lucia.

And he played Entre dos Aguas – and I said I had seen Paco de Lucia play and Hillel had too – and we both said how extraordinary and etc he was – lost for any words to really describe his playing.

Hillel himself was kind of extraordinary – precise and emotional.

And then at the Wall the scraps of paper were clean and fresh, the white plastic chairs were there and the sun was out.

And now just a few days later the storm that was brewing burst out while everyone thought it was still the time of negotiations.

There’s a section in the daily Jewish prayer asking that intransigent enemies be cut down speedily.

The sages caution against revenge and they understand and acknowledge that in the end it is a force greater than the human desire that will decide events, with our input being a desire for peace and of coming together.

Anything else only hinders the proper passage of events.