Shabbat Sermon: In The Wake of San Diego: What Can I Do? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz

Summary: <p>Four words.  They are just four words. They make up a simple sentence.  But how you <em>say</em> this sentence makes all the difference in the world.</p> <p>What can <em>I</em> do?  Emphasis on I.  Meaning that I am so small, the world is so large.  My energy is limited. The problems of the world are unlimited.  What can <em>I</em> do?  Not much.  A recipe for contraction.</p> <p>But then there is:  What can I <em>do</em>?  I cannot do everything.  But I can do something.  What can I do to make our world a little more decent.  A recipe for doing something.</p> <p>Which way do you say it?  Are you a what can <em>I</em> do person?  Or a what can I <em>do</em> person?  What life are you living?  What life do you want to live?</p> <p>In the spirit of these questions, and in the week of San Diego and Yom Hashoah, I want to tell you two stories about a man named Rabbi Herschel Schacter who died six years ago at the age of 95.  He never said what can <em>I</em> do?  He made his troubled world a little more decent.</p> <p>Follow this link to view the sermon on our website  <a href="https://www.templeemanuel.com/rabbi/rabbi-wes-gardenswartz/in-the-wake-of-san-diego-what-can-i-do/">https://www.templeemanuel.com/rabbi/rabbi-wes-gardenswartz/in-the-wake-of-san-diego-what-can-i-do/</a> </p>