- 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?
- Singing and Praying about EnemiesMusical context is shifting my perspective on “enemies” and “wicked ones” in the psalms.
- Miriam, Amalek, Memory, and MouthsHow much do we lose, and what do we gain, when we forget to remember why we chose to remember or forget? What must remembered with our mouths and with our hearts?
- Remedy of the Bima?What is our responsibility, individually and collectively, for what is taught — or not — in our synagogues about reparations?
- Or Olam: the light ahead and withinSeeking pieces of liturgy and other resources for uplift, as we try to move from the depths of Av to the new year, “Eternal Light”….
- Hallelu Avdei AdonaiA captioned/subtitled video of “Hallelu Avdei Adonai,” from Kaplan & Ziegler’s “Tuning the Soul.”
- Source of Light, LifeVerses of Psalm 36, 8-11, appear in many prayer books in association with blessing and putting on the tallit. Here is a melody for verse 10.
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