Recent Posts

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  Sharpened Wits and Teachers’ EyesMay 26, 2023
  here are the handouts for teaching at Shavuot tikkun in DC. More after the holiday. Handouts
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  Chicago MizrachFebruary 25, 2023
  “The Lake” = Mizrach/Kedem.
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  A Teacher-filled Tale and BlessingDecember 22, 2022
  Active parallels with my own learning, from youth to whatever age I am now, and from early days of the Havurah movement to wherever things are today.
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  Bowie and Hendrix and God and MeirNovember 29, 2022
  Another set of resources on Erubin 13b — about R’ Meir and his light.
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  David Bowie and Rabbi MeirNovember 15, 2022
  “Turn and face the strange”
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  Luxury and Sin: A dictionary pathSeptember 7, 2022
  The less noted definition of “chet” [sin] is “living in luxury” or “well-dressed, polished, cleansed.”
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  And So?August 7, 2022
  For nearly 3000 years, we’ve been warned that there is blood on our hands and work to be done. And so?
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  Vision, Blood, and LearningAugust 5, 2022
  Three readings from the compressed period of Shabbat and Tisha B’av call us to….
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  Footnote to “Setting Out”July 28, 2022
  another illustration of how music and gender operated in 1976ish
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  Setting OutJuly 26, 2022
  Leaving one stage to reach another, part of parashat Masei, is illustrated by two concerts featuring Joni Mitchell.
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  Recognition and ForceJuly 21, 2022
  thoughts on force and how it works in commerce and in the subset of acquisition in the ancient world known as marriage or betrothal
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  Remembering Emanuel 9 and…June 17, 2022
  Remembering Emanuel9 and so many more.
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  Gemara on THUG-LIFEApril 4, 2022
  In Talmud studies at Svara: a traditionally radical yeshiva, as at houses of Jewish text study for 1500 years or more, students are asked to recite what is written from memory. At Svara, students are celebrated for giving voice to and “owning” a recitation of a few words, the whole long passage the class has … Continue reading Gemara on THUG-LIFE
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  Same Season, Same PainJanuary 12, 2022
  Seeking new perspective on current, hyper-local grief, I’ve been studying mid-20th Century words from a Chicago Hebrew poet.
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  Aaron and Moses, Thurgood and SamDecember 31, 2021
  A passage from Shemot appears in Marshall (2017) and sheds light on two sibling-partnerships, one biblical and one historical.
• Jewish Mourning and PetsDecember 8, 2021
  Resources on pets and mourning.
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  DS9 for Bava Metzia 58bDecember 7, 2021
  Bava Metzia 58b with Deep Space Nine and related commentary with thanks to SVARA’s Mixed-Level Beit Midrash.
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  Teraphim and Elohim, Calvin & HobbesNovember 18, 2021
  Maybe, the switch of vocabulary indicates that Rachel relates to the teraphim differently than her (male) kin folk
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  Sources, Paths, Prayers and More Notes in the Weekly PortionOctober 31, 2021
  New landing page for sources on the weekly portion.
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  “One of Me” and Genesis 2October 1, 2021
  Can we serve as ezer k’negdo [help-meet] for one another? Might Elton John and Lil Nas X be an example of this?

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