The Problem With Doing Good
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion" - Abraham Lincoln At the beginning of every Jewish year, in the month of Tishrei, there are 10 days, called "The Holy Days" or "The Terrible Days". During this period, every Jewish believer has to search his soul, ask for forgiveness and repent. At the end of this period, during Yom Kipur (or The Day Of Atonement), the Jewish believers fast and pray in hope to be "signed for life" for the coming year. They hope that the balance between good and bad deed will turn in their favor. Some make sure that it will happen using donations, others by a brutal ritual which I will not describe here. But the question is, "What is a good deed?". Is there a universal standard for it? The answer is simple: no. You can often find a negative aspect in every good deed, even if it was done selflessly and with the sincerest of intention. If we started by talking about