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Luxury and Sin: A dictionary path

Luxury and Sin: A dictionary path

The less noted definition of “chet” [sin] is “living in luxury” or “well-dressed, polished, cleansed.”

And So?

And So?

For nearly 3000 years, we’ve been warned that there is blood on our hands and work to be done. And so?

Vision, Blood, and Learning

Vision, Blood, and Learning

Three readings from the compressed period of Shabbat and Tisha B’av call us to….

Footnote to “Setting Out”

Footnote to “Setting Out”

another illustration of how music and gender operated in 1976ish

Setting Out

Setting Out

Leaving one stage to reach another, part of parashat Masei, is illustrated by two concerts featuring Joni Mitchell.

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