To the editor: Thanks for the opinion items printed on the times earlier than Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish New Yr. Two very totally different voices harmonized with one stunning message.
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz reminds us “the individual we have been yesterday doesn’t have absolute authority over the individual we will turn out to be tomorrow” (“What if we stopped trying to be right?,” Sept. 10). LZ Granderson praises Western Michigan’s soccer coach, Lance Taylor: “When issues didn’t go his means, he confirmed his gamers find out how to hold cool when the stress comes” (“A tough loss is when character shines through,” Sept. 11).
The rabbi writes, “Ethical readability and mental humility can coexist.” Granderson teaches that “ethical reminiscence” is “the distinction between being steered by no matter’s loudest within the room and being steered by one thing you inbuilt your self, rep by rep, lengthy earlier than anybody was watching.”
I don’t name myself a practising Jew, and I’m definitely not an athlete. Nonetheless, these voices drive me to be a greater individual. Extra affected person, considerate and accepting of others.
A candy, blissful New Yr to all, filled with peace, understanding and hope.
Michael Tzipori, Ventura
