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A further leap from that teaching is the teaching that we must treat our elders with love and respect, even those who have lost their awareness and can no longer teach their wisdom, because the broken tablets were cherished along with the whole.
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Read Brokenness and purity: more thoughts on Shemini (Links)
The heart is an earthen vessel, the body an urn: made from dust The mention of breaking earthenware vessels reminded me of the Talmudic teaching that if an earthenware vessel becomes tamei (ritually impure), the way to make it tahor again is to break it and then glue it back together.
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Read This week's portion: vessel (Links)
They told me afterwards it was the most meaningful seder they had ever attended -- actually they told me it was the FIRST meaningful seder they had ever attended. Thanks, too, to the artists who donated artwork two years ago, whose work still graces these pages.
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Read Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah for Pesach! (Links)
My recipe includes the zest of an orange, which makes me think of the Sefardic pastry orejas de Aman (in Hebrew, oznei Haman ), "Haman's Ears," which -- according to Cucina Ebraica -- are twists of pastry dough flavored with orange rind and deep-fried.
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Read ??? ?????? / Why hamantaschen? (Links)
The city of crows These are part of Tiel Aisha Ansari's world, and through her poems, now they're part of mine, too. Tiel -- who blogs at Knocking from inside, and is one of the co-creators of Totally optional prompts -- posts poems online often. Thanks, Tiel, for sharing your work with the world.
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Read Knocking from Inside, by Tiel Aisha Ansari (Links)
Stop and wash with water, then you change your garments You want perpetual motion but fires don't burn forever and the ritual of the offering is this lesson from the waters. Remember that holy pillar like a beacon in the darkness and the reeds you sludged across each shaky step toward freedom.
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Read This week's portion: Tzav, "command" (Links)
Purim is a festival when nothing is what it appears: Queen Esther is more than she claims to be, and the gallows on which Haman meant to hang Mordechai becomes his own undoing, and the true king in the story is never mentioned at all.
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Read Purim: redemption and the true king (Links)
But the words we use are lenses, and some of these Hebrew terms speak to me in a way the English terms don't. The English word "sacrifice" suggests giving something up; the Hebrew word korban connotes something like "drawing-near." Vayikra shows us how we once drew near to God.
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Read This week's portion: korban (Links)
Back when I was in college, Ethan and I used to wake up well before dawn twice a year to drive to Boonton, New Jersey for shiai. So are those shiai gatherings I used to attend, which resonate in me even though I'm not going twice a year any more.
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