Monthly Newsletter - July 2005
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Dear Friends:

This is a speech sent by Larry & Jason Herman’s cousin.  It is a shining example of how easily we can forget the most important things in life.  We are all truly blessed…only sometimes we lose sight of the big picture.  I hope the message touches you the way that it has us.

Blessed

In the winter of 1972, in the South Korea, a baby girl cries from inside a dumpster in a dark alley.  When she was found, no one knew where she had come from, who had left her, or what fate awaited her.  No one knew that this infant was destined to have a wonderful life filled with happiness and a thousand blessings.

As I look though the pictures, legal documents and even my flight ticket form Pan American Airlines, I try and remember my journey from Seoul, Korea, to San Francisco.  In the picture at the airport, I see my blank face stare at the camera as I am held by my mother with my two new brothers at her side.

Growing up, I guess I always knew I was adopted.  I didn’t look like the rest of my family and my parents were very open and proud of their first daughter.  As I grew older, our family got bigger.  My parents adopted four more girls and had three more children of their own-and yes for those of you keeping count- that’s ten kids total.

My childhood was simple and happy, surrounded by brothers and sisters and plenty of open spaces to play.  And even then, I think I knew that my life was blessed.

The Hebrew word for blessing is beracha and it signifies that our everyday life is filled with divine nurturance if we are receptive to it.  In Jewish tradition, we are encouraged to thankfully acknowledge the higher Source of our personal blessings as fully as possible.

But so often, we think about what we don’t have.  We fixate on attaining the newer car, the bigger and flatter TV, the better home or the perfect abs.  But if we take moment every day and think about what blessings we have all around us, the perfect and wouldn’t seem as important.

The pathway that led me to Judaism and finds me standing her today was a long journey, much like my journey from Korea to America over 30 years ago.  Judaism has been an unexpected joy in my life and today is my proclamation of that blessing and my personal commitment to a faith, a people and a history.

I have been blessed with a wonderful husband, big-hearted parents and amazing in-laws.  And today I stand here with the ultimate, long awaited blessing-I stand here as an expectant mother. And as I look out at the faces of family, friends and my Jewish community it is another reminder, that today especially-I am truly blessed.

Shabbet Shalom.

B’nai Mitzvah speech by Corinna L. Vanetsky.  Delivered June 18,2005  Temple Solel, Encinitas, California

In Good Health;

Larry Herman, DC, Shanon Holcomb, DC, Jim McDermott, DC, Steve Waters, DC,

Chris Morgenstern, DC, Joe Dragonette, DC, Jan Herman, DC, Joe Brady, DC, Mike Savko, DC

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