Sermon on the Haftarah of Torah portion," VaYera." Facing into the kinds of suffering having no apparent rhyme or reason – including being pulled out of "numbness" back into healthy levels of feeling - and sound hope. Recovering a sense of momentum based on "the real God," not one we make up in our own image, resembling a kind of Santa Claus running a world like Disneyland, in which the rides occasionally go "on the blink."