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Sharpened Wits and Teachers’ Eyes

here 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 Blessing

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.

Bowie and Hendrix and God and Meir

Another set of resources on Erubin 13b — about R’ Meir and his light.

David Bowie and Rabbi Meir

“Turn and face the strange”

Tag: Lulav

“The Jews Welcome…

…God”

Each Sukkot morning, many of us stand momentarily with God’s name across our chests, facing away from us, like so many tour guides awaiting the same unfamiliar customer.
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Posted on September 23, 2013September 23, 2013Categories ancient ritual, Community, contemporary midrash, Ethics, God, SukkotTags Arthur Waskow, etrog, four species, Hoshana Raba, Joseph Soloveitchik, Lulav, SukkahLeave a comment on “The Jews Welcome…

“A Whisper Will Be Heard”: Babel, the Wake and Echoes of Sukkkot

What went wrong at Babel, and how might the situation be redeemed? One answer, I think, is to be found in a whisper still reverberating from our shaky sukkot and the rustling of the lulav.
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Posted on October 27, 2011November 17, 2013Categories Breishit, Ecclesiates, literary analysis, liturgy, poetry, SukkotTags communication, Finnegans Wake, James Joyce, Judy Klitsner, Lulav, Noach, The Place Where We Are Right, Yehuda AmichaiLeave a comment on “A Whisper Will Be Heard”: Babel, the Wake and Echoes of Sukkkot

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