Stan Kreis

Albert Einstein died with a speech for Israel in his hands. This day (April 17) in 1955, the world’s most celebrated genius was hospitalized with internal bleeding. It was just 9 days before Israel’s 7th Independence Day & Einstein was scheduled to give a major televised address (to air on ABC, NBC & CBS) - he had a draft of his speech with him in the hospital. Sadly for the world, Albert Einstein passed away the very next day. He was never able to share any more of his genius or the speech he intended to give marking Israel’s rebirth days later. However, you can read here what Einstein intended to say: “The establishment of Israel is an event which actively engages the conscience of this generation ... It is a bitter paradox to find that a State which was destined to be a shelter for a martyred people is itself threatened by grave dangers to its own security. The universal conscience cannot be indifferent to such peril.” Einstein had been a passionate Zionist for decades. In 1921, he toured America with Chaim Weizmann raising funds for Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The following year, he lectured there and proudly declared Jews were once again becoming “a force in the world.” In a letter to Jawaharlal Nehru in 1947, Einstein wrote: “Long before the emergence of Hitler I made the cause of Zionism mine because through it I saw a means of correcting a flagrant wrong ... The Jewish people alone has for centuries been in the anomalous position of being victimized and hounded as a people.” When Israel offered him the presidency (a largely ceremonial position) in 1952, he declined with characteristic humility: “I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel ... but I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions.” Here, in the picture below, he is smiling and laughing with Israel’s first Prime Minister - David Ben-Gurion. Einstein supported the project for Jewish sovereignty from its earliest days. He even spoke at the 1939 Palestine Pavilion (a purely Jewish pavilion at the time) at the New York World’s Fair, calling the Zionist project “a refuge in a stormy sea of turmoil.” Yet even in America, Einstein faced antisemitism. Princeton University wouldn’t hire Jewish professors until the late 1940s. That’s right - Princeton would not hire EINSTEIN to teach at its university because he was a Jew. So while people often say “Einstein taught at Princeton,” that’s inaccurate. In truth, he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, a prestigious but entirely separate entity located in the town of Princeton that had to be created by American Jews as a haven for refugee scholars escaping Nazi-occupied Europe. While Einstein largely rejected organized religion, he described himself as having a “deep religiosity” rooted in wonder at the universe. For Einstein, Judaism was a cultural and ethical tradition; and he maintained his strong solidarity with the Jewish people. Regarding being a Jew, Einstein once famously remarked: “A Jew who abandons his Judaism is like a snail that abandons its shell. It’s still a snail.” Einstein’s mind helped change our understanding of the world. Einstein’s heart never abandoned his people.

How can God punish you for what He knows ahead of time you're going to do?

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Ethical question. I was in the hotel gym just now in a dad came in to do weights with two of his children. While he wasn’t paying attention to his son, who was about seven years old, climbed on the treadmill and kept hitting buttons until it was going at 8 miles an hour. Worried he was going to get killed. I warned him to turn it down. He then got back on it and did it again. I ended my workout early and talk to the dad saying I thought that was dangerous and I didn’t want someone a child to get hurt. He said it was fine and he did 8 miles an hour yesterday. At that point, I left and informed the front desk. I said it was their call, but it was my judgment a child could get seriously hurt. Was this the right thing to do?

“I have no more earth to cling to” 🎗️ Yosef Wiener, a Holocaust survivor who lost his grandson Yahav, his granddaughter Hadar, and her husband Itay on October 7th, has passed away. Before his passing, he wrote these inconceivable words: "My name is Yosef Wiener, and I am 97 years old. I was saved from the fire of the Nazi beasts; my entire family was annihilated in that terrible inferno. I was severed from my deep roots, and I erected a monument of basalt stones in their memory. Out of total exhaustion, out of despair, while drowning, I clung to the earth and planted myself in Zion. I married Aviva, and together we raised two magnificent children, Ofer and Nurit. From Ofer and Michal, four grandchildren were born to us in Kfar Aza. From Nurit and Miki, six grandchildren were born to us in Kfar Aza. I had reached the stage of a family tree firmly planted in the soil of the homeland, bearing fruit. But suddenly, from within the fences of evil, October 7th, 2023, arrived. The terrifying sights of fire and dust, the slaughter and horrific murder of innocents reached me once again. My grandson, dearer to me than all, Yahav (of blessed memory), was murdered while protecting his wife, Shaye-Lee, and his one-month-old daughter, Shaya. My granddaughter, dearer to me than all, Hadar (of blessed memory), and her husband Itay (of blessed memory), were murdered while protecting their ten-month-old twins, Roee and Guy. Once again, I am at the end of my strength, in despair, drowning. And I have no more earth to cling to." 💔

If god has perfect knowledge of the future comma god cannot change the future