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Nursing homes run $10,000 per month and will usurp what is left of the estate unless you plan. You need to make sure your estate plan is in order. I'm approaching or crossed 60, is there anything I need to know? IT IS TIME TO ACT! FREE SEMINAR REPEATED! THAV GROSS is hosting a free seminar – Wednesday, October 14th – 6:30 to 8 PM, "Crossing Sixty – The Estate & Financial Planning Decisions You Need to Make" – for FREE tickets go to www.lawandreality.com or call 888.235.4357. viewpoints » S e n d l e t t e r s t o : l e t t e r s @ t h e j e w i s h n e w s . c o m October 8 • 2015 5 Of course you read the paper and watch the news so you can be in the know. Each day you absorb all that can be learned to improve your conversational skills. Well, my friends, while you are busy being depressed by what passes as the news of the day, I am enjoying the discovery of things that are strange but true. For example, there are 18 different ani- mal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo. And I still like biting the ears off first! While you are going about your daily rou- tines, your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells a second. Being facially hirsute, I was amazed to discover that the king of hearts is the only king with a moustache on a standard playing card. However, the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows because it was fashionable in Renaissance Florence to shave them off. The next time you feel like berating your guests for being so messy at the table, remember that tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating. Were you aware that when glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour and to photograph the event a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second? I am especially amazed that someone had the time to document this! For those of you growing more depen- dent on the call-waiting feature to preserve your sanity, you should know it is estimat- ed that 4 million junk calls are made every day in the U.S. I am positive that 2 million are coming to me alone! For all of our animal lovers out there: Porcupines float in water; hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny; and the longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. (The latter was obviously without hand luggage.) I never thought of the email system as an aid to dieting, but every time you lick a stamp you are consuming one-tenth of a calorie. Self-sticking stamps are saving you saliva and putting you on your way to fitness! I do not know about you, but I feel that all this information will make for some really lively conversational inserts. I just need to find a group of like-minded trivial- ists. * for openers Gee, I Did Not Know That! Sy Manello Editorial Assistant editorial Inspiration And Joy ... At The Well W ith a flourish, the newest player in local efforts to engage more young adults in Jewish life has burst onto the scene. On a gorgeous afternoon the second day of Rosh Hashanah, The Well drew nearly 500 people to the Detroit riverfront to recite Tashlich prayers — where Jews "cast their sins" into a body of the water to symboli- cally discard their shortcomings while wel- coming the new year. With this large crowd, "Rosh Hashanah Rush Hour" became the signature event to date for The Well, a pluralistic, Jewish- identity outreach initiative. Curiosity could have played a part, but the main attraction likely was what The Well hopes to offer: a way to learn together Jewishly and be uplifted spiritually. POTENTIAL WELLSPRING The Well (www.meetyouatthewell.org) seeks to provide a central meeting point for young, unaffiliated Jews searching for new or rein- forced Jewish connections. Its name derives from our ancestors, a desert people whose lives centered around the community well. Rabbi Dan Horwitz, 31, the founding director, told the JN in a May 28 cover story, "I'm trying to model what it is to simultaneously live a life that is authenti- cally both Jewish and American … and filled with joy!" That's a tall order. Shaping opportunities to be immersed spiritually in Jewish values, practices and traditions — and to make it inviting against a modern backdrop — sounds daunting. For The Well, success over the long haul is a real possibility thanks to having an innovative leader (namely Rabbi Horwitz), a sage mentor (Rabbi Paul Yedwab of Temple Israel of West Bloomfield), a believ- ing benefactor (Lori Talsky Zekelman of Bloomfield Hills) and the luxury of time (a four-year trial grant through the Lori Talsky Zekelman Fund at Temple Israel). JOINING FORCES The Well stands among the pantheon of local Jewish alliances (beyond our syna- gogues) that share the goal of guiding more young adults toward a meaningful Jewish journey. Each organization has embraced a distinc- tive niche: The Well, Federation's NEXTGen Detroit, Yeshiva Beth Yehudah's Partners Detroit, Hillel of Metro Detroit, Moishe House, Chabad in the D, Aish, others. All recognize the potential of working together on programming, where possible. The goal they share is more collaboration than competition; invigorating Jewish Detroit is what matters most. In the cover story, Yedwab told the JN that a Temple Israel planning committee sought to address the subject of millennial detachment from Jewish life. The commit- tee imagined a "network weaver" not just to pluralistically tie together the strengths of existing young adult groups, but also, to daringly reach beyond institutional walls. Amid the relentless tug of complete assimilation into a secular way of life, the kind of weaving imagined by Temple Israel may seem a lost art. Still, if upwards of 500 people can be inspired to flock to a modern-day version of the ancient community well, in this case the Detroit riverfront, to observe a simple Jewish ritual, The Well and its partners in young adult engagement indeed may be positioned to create a dynamic weaving. * Rabbis Paul Yedwab and Dan Horwitz