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                                                                                     ABRAHAM ben ROSA A'H
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        While riding my bicycle under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which spans the entrance to New York Harbor and connects the boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island, I was struck by the majesty of this feat of engineering: two super-highways riding piggyback, suspended across the Narrows. The bridge hangs across the bay against a backdrop of sea and sky. But as magnificent as it is, it is not on the list of the Seven Wonders of the World.

The list of Wonders is very archaic. The Wonders were masterful works of art and architecture produced thousands of years ago. Yet none of the Wonders are as mind-boggling as a cell phone call or e-mail transmitted thousands of miles in seconds through airwaves without wires, or digital photographs passed from computer to computer around the globe.

The more I stared in awe at the bridge, the more my attention was drawn to the sky, the water, and the natural landscape that comprised the backdrop to this great human achievement. How puny manmade “Wonders” become, when set against a G-d-created background whose vast and overpowering scope overwhelms the limited boundaries of greatness any human Wonder can supply!