Tags: numbers
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This week's portion: sandals
Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:35 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
SANDALS (BALAK) I don't think I will ever read this parsha again without thinking of the donkey hee-hawing in trop, an angel who sounded like Louis Armstrong, Balaam channeling a creepy voice form the beyond, or Balak in sunglasses with cellphone attached to his ear!)
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This week's portion: red heifer
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 12:04 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
This week's portion, Chukat, begins with instructions for sacrificing a red heifer and using its ashes -- which were tamei, "impure" -- to make the water of lustration, which made one tahor, "pure." I'll say this: Chukat never made me giggle until I saw that steakhouse sign.
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This week's portion: bloom
Posted Thursday June 26, 2008, 2:04 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
BLOOM (KORACH) Why should our bodies need concealment, like faces of the Holy Blessed One hidden from creation? Sometimes when we say this the earth swallows us whole like Persephone, eater of pomegranate seeds. Imagery from both of those stories made it into this week's poem.
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This week's portion: larger than life
Posted Tuesday June 17, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
Of course, this year I'm reading it during the days leading up to my own journey into the land, which changes how the portion resonates for me. As usual, if you can't see the audio player embedded in this post, or if you'd like a copy of the recorded poem, you can download life.mp3.
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This week's poem: Shine (B'ha-alot'kha)
Posted Wednesday June 11, 2008, 12:48 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to Aaron and say to him, "When you mount the lamps, let the seven lamps give light at the front of the lampstand." -- Numbers 8:1-2
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Is the Skype World Online or Asleep?
Posted Friday April 11, 2008, 6:18 pm, Over one day old at Skype Journal
For instance: at 0 GMT, you have about 4 billion people awake at the same time (and a lot of Chinese people and other Asians), and at 15:30 GMT you have 6 billion people awake, in fact almost everybody, less the relatively scarcely populated Pacific Zone.
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Forgot Statistics Class? Do It All In Excel
Posted Tuesday May 16, 2006, 6:06 am, Over one day old at Confessions of an Undercover Geek
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