Tags: religion
Tags: religion
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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Coming home: a Jewish Renewal erev Shabbat
Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 11:55 am, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
I first read about Reb Ruth's minyan in a Jerusalem Pos t article, Keeping the Faiths, which begins, "A rabbi, a monk, and a Sufi walk into a minyan. But it's a reality every month at Nava Tehilla, Jerusalem's first - and only - 'multi-faith' Jewish renewal gathering."
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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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A morning at the Leader Minyan
Posted Monday June 30, 2008, 1:34 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
Their last name is "Leader." I had the profound pleasure of running into one of my beloved teachers -- Reb Elliot, with whom I studied middot last summer -- who has been here for a few weeks and is about to head back to the States for ALEPH smicha students' week.
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First theomorphism class
Posted Monday June 30, 2008, 1:34 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
The class aims to explore the image of God in Jewish tradition. We've inherited that idea, and we've also inherited a lot of ideas from the Wissenschaft des Judentums, the beginning of the academic study of Judaism in the nineteenth century.
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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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73% of American atheists don?t believe in God
Posted Tuesday June 24, 2008, 12:54 am, Over one day old at Joho the Blog
Yes, that’s how devout Americans are. Even a bunch of our atheists believe in God. [Tags: religion atheism improbable_results ]
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Going through
Posted Monday June 23, 2008, 12:03 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
Simcha Daniel taught me that the poem is called "Prospective Immigrants Please Note." I don't know what it's like to emigrate, but I know what it's like to make the conscious decision to dive in to something unknown and unknowable.
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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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A whirlwind tour of Biblical History
Posted Monday June 16, 2008, 12:03 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
What I love about studying this period is my growing sense that for all of the differences between then and now, the ancient Israelites wrestled with some of the same questions we do. And in the world of atzilut, essence, we can aim to integrate this learning into our lives.
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