- Sharpened Wits and Teachers’ Eyeshere are the handouts for teaching at Shavuot tikkun in DC. More after the holiday. Handouts
- Chicago Mizrach“The Lake” = Mizrach/Kedem.
- A Teacher-filled Tale and BlessingActive 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.
- Bowie and Hendrix and God and MeirAnother set of resources on Erubin 13b — about R’ Meir and his light.
- David Bowie and Rabbi Meir“Turn and face the strange”
- Luxury and Sin: A dictionary pathThe less noted definition of “chet” [sin] is “living in luxury” or “well-dressed, polished, cleansed.”
- 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 LearningThree readings from the compressed period of Shabbat and Tisha B’av call us to….
- Footnote to “Setting Out”another illustration of how music and gender operated in 1976ish
- Setting OutLeaving one stage to reach another, part of parashat Masei, is illustrated by two concerts featuring Joni Mitchell.
- Recognition and Forcethoughts on force and how it works in commerce and in the subset of acquisition in the ancient world known as marriage or betrothal
- Remembering Emanuel 9 and…Remembering Emanuel9 and so many more.
- Gemara on THUG-LIFEIn 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
- Same Season, Same PainSeeking new perspective on current, hyper-local grief, I’ve been studying mid-20th Century words from a Chicago Hebrew poet.
- Aaron and Moses, Thurgood and SamA passage from Shemot appears in Marshall (2017) and sheds light on two sibling-partnerships, one biblical and one historical.
- Jewish Mourning and PetsResources on pets and mourning.
- DS9 for Bava Metzia 58bBava Metzia 58b with Deep Space Nine and related commentary with thanks to SVARA’s Mixed-Level Beit Midrash.
- Teraphim and Elohim, Calvin & HobbesMaybe, the switch of vocabulary indicates that Rachel relates to the teraphim differently than her (male) kin folk
- Sources, Paths, Prayers and More Notes in the Weekly PortionNew landing page for sources on the weekly portion.
- “One of Me” and Genesis 2Can 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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