Andrew M. Ball, MS, PT
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Tomorrow is Yom Kippur. The Jewish Day of Atonement. With those of you unfamiliar with the tradition, after spending Rosh Hashana, the Day of Judgment, in “court”, God has weighed up our good and bad deeds, and we have asked God to forgive us and inscribe us with a good year. We have had ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, known as the Ten Days of Repentance, during which time we try to do Teshuva and return to God and to our true selves by examining our words and actions, and making little steps to improve. We ask forgiveness from our family and friends for anything wrong we may have done during the year. Those who do not forgive us then absorb the sin as their own. We then approach God on Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement, the most serious day in the Jewish calendar. We fast from sundown on the eve of Yom Kippur until nightfall on Yom Kippur and spend most of the day praying in the Synagogue. The idea behind all these customs is to remove all physical distractions including the eating of food and all the pursuits that keep us busy every day, and, in this way, to enable us to devote the entire day and all our thoughts to moving closer to God and asking Him to forgive us for our sins over the course of the previous year.
This has given me great cause for reflection. My comments on both RehabEdge and the PED-PT listserv have been with one goal in mind: to aid in the progression of pediatric physical therapy into an evidence-based science, using a purely scientific philosophy, of which only then can clinical art be superimposed. This approach has been applauded by most, but has on occasion frightened and offended others. Frightening and offending has never been my intent, though I have on occasion found myself administering “tough love” to my physical therapy colleagues.
For those whom I’ve offended over the past year, please understand the unintentional nature of that action. I humbly beg forgiveness, and look forward to a mutually beneficial professional relationship with each and every one of you, for years into the future.
May you all be written in the Book of Life.
Respectfully,
Andrew M. Ball, MS, MBA, PT
[This message has been edited by Andrew M. Ball, MS, PT (edited October 08, 2000).]
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