Rabbi: Steve Jobs left us too early

Steve Jobs
In this Jan. 9, 2007 file phtoo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up an Apple iPhone at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. Apple Inc. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 said Jobs is resigning as CEO, effective immediately. He will be replaced by Tim Cook, who was the company's chief operating officer. It said Jobs has been elected as Apple's chairman.
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was just 56 years old when he died earlier this week. His death at a relatively early age in life offers an eternal lesson about human mortality. Rabbi Barry Cytron is a chaplain and professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, and he has this commentary.

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