My apologies to the legions of upright used-car salesmen in the world, but gentlemen, your trade has a bad rap. No, no, sir, that brown color is not rust. It's the original paintwork. It's called French Ochre. These are special treadless treads.
Nothing goes on forever.
If we're Jewish, we're going to have to decide if our Jewishness will define our lives and our relationship with G-d, or will it be just another cultural affinity on par with belonging to the Seattle Large Format Camera Club. In this week's Torah portion it seems that G-d lets the Jewish People make a terrible blunder. The journey of the spies led to the biggest debacle in Jewish History when Israel spurned the Land of Israel and were punished so severely that we feel the repercussions of that blunder to this day. In fact, G-d never told Israel to send spies. The opening of this week's Torah portion is a response to the request of the Jewish People to Moses at the beginning of the Book of Deuteronomy.