“He was cut but never bar Mitzvahed. He had not recited the prayer over the wine since he had been old enough to legally drink it. The point being there was not much there to work with, in his efforts considering the Almighty, little grist for the mill. But still he was trying; he was doing his best. This was the time to be thinking about G-d; if ever there was a time, this was it. And in fact he was surprised to discover that there was one portion of the Torah which he could suddenly recall wit...h perfect clarity, as if printed on the back of his eyelids, and this was the wording of the covenant that Noah, socks still wet, had wrung from his Creator, after he had laid waste to everything that he had thus far created. “Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”The Lord was a righteous god, the Lord was an honest god, the Lord had stayed true to his words. Though standing on the roof of his building, watching them shamble eastward, the breeze carrying with it odors which were indescribably fetid, Ben could not bring himself to feel grateful.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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