“Numbers” is the book of counting, but there is love in these lists. Think of a kindergarten-teacher counting children as they get on and off a bus, each individual number as important as the total. Important things “count” for us, we “recount” significant events. And yet the biblical blessing is always to be, not just […]Read Post ›
How can we own time? We already know some methods: repetition, rhythm, ritual. We can also count and name. Time slips past indifferently, but when we say “Shabbat is tomorrow”, “It’s my thirtieth birthday”, “Four weeks since Pesach,” we’ve created units of time which are the building-blocks of meaningful narrative, and of anything sacred. Instead […]Read Post ›
120 words of Torah 