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"Balance" is one way of translating tiferet, the dominant quality of this third week in the counting of the Omer -- and also the dominant quality of this third day of the week. "Harmony" is another way to render tiferet in English.
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Zeek: Thank you all for joining us. Earlier this year, I had the honor of facilitating a round-table discussion in which Rabbis Camille Angel, Lynn Gottlieb, Fred Guttman and Meyer Schiller discussed the impact of Israel on their rabbinates. That discussion has now been published over at Zeek.
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Read Rabbinic round-table on Israel (Links)
A few weeks ago Ethan blogged about eye trouble and forthcoming surgery, a pars plana vitrectomy on his right eye. That surgery is happening tomorrow, as per his latest post. After the surgery we'll spend a night there, and have a follow-up visit with the doctors on Wednesday morning.
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Read T-minus one day and counting (Links)
One of this blog's origin stories goes, "I started Velveteen Rabbi because I wanted to be having conversations about God and prayer and scripture, and my local friends were good sports about listening to me ramble, but I knew they were basically humoring me.
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Read A minister and a rabbinic student walk into a coffee shop... (Links)
This week's Torah poem is a cento, a kind of patchwork poem composed entirely of found lines. Mary E. Moore has written a lovely cento which draws on Emily Dickinson, and this one from the SemiCento project draws on sources from Dante and Shakespeare to Thich Nhat Hanh and Old Norse eddas.
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Read This week's portion: Shall (Emor) (Links)
(You can read that story in Volume 1: The Bar Mitzvah, which Pantheon graciously put online.) He asks not because he cares about God or Jewish tradition, but because he wants to be able to hang out with Zlabya, which would be more proper if he were, well, a nice Jewish cat.
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Read Joann Sfar's "The Rabbi's Cat 2" (Links)
But new material will be published now at jewcy.com/zeek, now on a more blog-like schedule (so instead of getting a batch of new content once a month, readers will be treated to an ongoing stream of articles a few at a time.)
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And they went up the mountain, and Isaac asked about the lamb for the sacrifice, and Abraham said that God would see to the lamb. When Isaac asks about the lamb for the sacrifice, Abraham says "God will see to the lamb, my son." Same word, yir'eh.
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Read Day 9 of the Omer: gevurah within gevurah (Links)
That we bless both before and after. Kal v'chomer : if the Torah requires a blessing after the meal when full, how much more so when one is hungry! D'var acher, "The heavens are God's but the earth God has given to men!" The definitive teirutz: before we bless, food belongs to God.
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Read readwritepoem: Brachot 35a (Links)
This doesn't mean I'm going to start posting regularly about Middle East politics; it's not my area of expertise, and I still think Israel dominates American Jewish discourse in a way that's not necessarily spiritually healthy.
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