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Post-Purim

We can’t live in the world of Purim. Once a year we reveal the old secret: the world is meaningless chaos, our lives are irrelevant nothingness. An awful truth, we drink and laugh in order to see it and in order to cover it up. We don’t sing psalms of praise: we know now our […]Read Post ›

Yom Kippur 5778

Reality is random chaos – inasmuch as we are conscious beings, we can swim through life letting Things happen to us. Or: we can respond to Things, and imbue our actions and choices with meaning. This is the essence of Yom Kippur as ‘Day of Judgement’ – taking a pause from the flow of being-happened-to, […]Read Post ›

Behar-Bechukotai 5777

Relationships to the world and to God are often framed as intimacy, yet here the same is said in more violent terms: “If you stop listening and act in keri, I will punish you with fiery keri!” What is keri? The most interesting interpretations link it to chance, accident, chaos. We can see the world like […]Read Post ›

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(single words)

abraham absence angst architecture babel Bamidbar bible birth blessing bread brothers channukah chaos choice concealement conversation counting creation death Devarim doubt dream existentialism exodus faith fear field fire forgiveness freedom genesis gift giving god hagar hannukah hebrew holiness holy howl inspiration interpretation isaac ishmael israel jacob john cage joseph joshua judaism justice kierkegaard kindness klee language law leviticus light love lovers marriage matzah meaning miracle miraculous mishkan moses myth nachman noah numbers others pain paradox peace pesach poetry prayer pride priests prophecy psalms purim purity rabbi racism rebecca rebels reconciliation relationship religion responsibility sacrifice seeing sensory overload shabbat silence sinai slavery spies spiritual spirituality story sukkot symbolism tabernacle teaching thanks theodicy time tower translation truth twins viktor frankl wandering william blake windows work yom kippur

(old words)

Moriel Rothman-Zeche… on Tzav (Pesach)
joshkadosh on Beshalach
Cheryl Skylan on Beshalach
Susan Elster on Miketz / Channukah
Naomi Hesse on Noach 5778
Rudes on Rosh Hashanah 5778
joshkadosh on Rosh Hashanah 5778
myronjoshua on Rosh Hashanah 5778
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