This week, we lost a very dear friend, with the sudden passing last Shabbos of Mark Rosen (Moshe Shmuel ben Sholom Z”L).
I was originally introduced to Mark some ten years ago just after he celebrated his daughter’s Bar Mitzvah. At that point he had already been fighting ALS for seven years, and in my first encounter, I went with a perspective that I am going to be seeing someone who has been debilitated by ALS. However, I quickly realized that he didn’t define his life by his ALS, rather he was someone who had a profound depth, focus and sense of purpose and was determined to use his every day in a productive and meaningful manner.
Mark was an amazing father and invested tremendous energy and passion into looking after … Read More »
I was discussing with a loyal Yankee Fan, some of the great recent performances of the Red Sox and how they are doing so well. We discussed how the Red Sox had clobbered the Yankees and how the Yankees are quite a bit behind. However he quickly retorted that with several weeks left to the season and some major games ahead of us, it is still quite easy for the Yankees to overtake the Red Sox and still win. I am not so convinced, as I have been living in Massachusetts for too long now, and I have started to have an affinity to the Red Sox.