Maybe I shouldn't recycle topics, but this is too interesting for me to not write more about. I just commented on Gertz's blog, talking about something that just happened. Yesterday in Jewish History class, we talked about the idea that none of our Jewish biblical heroes are perfect, yet many figures in other religions are. So last night I commented on Gertz's blog talking about this idea, and that I thought it suggests an element of realism found in Judaism not found in other faiths. Then, a few minutes ago I was sitting in my room with Jacob, doing my math homework, and not really paying attention to the music playing in the background. It was an album I recently got, so I wasn't familiar with it. Suddenly I heard something about someone named Joseph. The last few days in class we were talking about Joseph, so I listened to hear what they were saying. It ended up the artist was talking about the father of Jesus, not the same Joseph, but what they said next amazed me. First, I didn't believe what I had heard, so I had to rewind it and hear it again. This is what I heard:

"and I've been thinking awkwardly
about the things that are holy
like Jesus, Joseph, and Mary
and Mary Magdalene
and even theoretically
I don't think I could ever see
the perfect human being
Jesus lived without sin"

The writer is questioning whether he believes that anybody, even Jesus, could live a perfect, sinless life.  It absolutely blows my mind that somehow I happened to hear the one verse out of this entire album that happens to be talking about exactly what we had discussed the day before. What's more is that that was the first time that idea had been introduced to me. Had I heard that verse a few weeks ago, it would have little meaning to me, but the timing of it was perfect. Strange coincidences seem to happen to me a lot, but this one seemed special to me. It made me think about coincidences, so I decided to find out what the Jewish perspective on coincidences was. I found this article, called "Who says there are no coincidences?"
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/6078/features/who-says-there-are-no-coincidences/
 I don't exactly have time to comment on it now, but it brings up some interesting point, and I'd recommend reading it.