Today we begin Lent with Ash Wednesday. I will use my blog to post some of my past blogs and revisit our thinking during this solemn time of reflection. Though this is an explicitly Christian season there are also important Jewish holidays. The Body: The first time I understood that the body is only a carcass was when I buried my cat, Katya. She had been a wonderful cat, and we had no idea she had an enlarged heart. Eventually she died of heart failure. We buried her under the birch tree in our yard at Blue Jay Court and even prayed an abbreviated version of the Burial Service in…