“So said Cyrus, the king of Persia, ‘All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of the heavens delivered to me, and He commanded me to build Him a House in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.’” – Hebrew Bible, Ezra 1:2
— Reza Pahlavi (@PahlaviReza) April 18, 2023
2,500 years ago, Cyrus the Great liberated the Jewish people from… pic.twitter.com/HIVOj5RvoZ
אני וסבא נוקמים בהיטלר.💪 pic.twitter.com/g5qGse4E7e
— ישראל דיסקינד (@israel_diskind) April 17, 2023
Dr. Harold Goldmeier manages an investment
company and writes for financial companies about business, social, and
political issues. He is a free public speaker for community groups and consults
on matters of commerce and industry. He can be reached a harold.goldmeier@gmail.com
Israel and America appear haunted by a sense of
despair. The nation is locked in domestic and international political battles
exacerbated by tensions between the ultra-religious and open-society
proponents. As Rabbi Jonathan Sachs put it, “We live in an era of intense
social discord and distrust… cancellation or ostracism.” The Rabbi asks the
quintessential question, “How do we heal our fractured world?”
First, learn to think differently. Business
schools and executive development programs incorporate psychology courses to
stimulate contagious positive energy. Harvard University had us examine
challenges with a positive mental attitude to welcome the fast pace of change.
Israel’s business and military complexes focus
on the positive, on the miracles in our midst. Author and social anthropologist
Avi Jorisch discerns from his studies that Jewish
prophetic tradition creates a remarkable culture of innovation. Its sobriquet
as The Start-Up Nation is called an economic miracle by those who coined the
term. Solve the world’s most formidable problems by innovating “on agriculture,
medicine, water, and defense…making life better for billions of people around
the world.”
Second,
ignore the bearer of bad news. Sages consider that person a fool. Negativity
feeds into the stewpot of emotions fomenting hate and vengeance. The third
change you can make if you want to have hope for our children and the future of
the Earth is to read works by Avi Jorisch. His writing is smart, factual,
refreshing, and uplifting.
Jorisch
studies current trends and accomplishments. He talks of solutions being
explored now how “human beings can exert (and are exerting) significant control
over what happens to our species and our planet, and that our future is better
than most of us think.”
His
new book, NEXT: A Brief History of the Future, reports on “thirteen
game-changing innovations that are poised to transform our species from a
society of takers to a society of givers.” Innovators are finding solutions to
hunger, pollution, and global warming by mobilizing our remarkable abundance
and wealth, greater and more democratic, in this writer’s opinion,
at
any other time in human history.