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Posted in Beliefs, Life on November 6th, 2009 
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The Holy One, Blessed be He, said to Moses, “Go speak to the daughters of Israel and ask them whether they wish to receive the Torah.” Why were the women asked first? Because the way of men is to follow the opinion of women.
–Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer, chapter 41
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Posted in Culture, Beliefs on November 5th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m a vegetarian, but I kiss meat-eating men pretty regularly. I’m not afraid of cooking a chicken (or a brisket, for that matter) and I won’t get grossed out or condemnatory if the conversation turns to the juiciest hamburgers in the world. I do what I do and beyond that I’m not imposing my food […]
Posted in Beliefs on November 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
…And so are you. Michaelson’s new book, Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism, is a call to arms, a kind of populist manifesto based upon the kabbalistic notion that all humans are infused with a breath of God.
And, last week, he threw a party to prove it.
Check out the Shemspeed video:
Michaelson shone […]
Posted in Beliefs, Life on October 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Rabbi Judah says: Whoever does not teach his son a trade or profession teaches him to be a thief.
–Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 29a
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Posted in Culture, Beliefs on October 27th, 2009 No Comments »
It’s been said over and over again. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart is the king of the Jewish joke. I feel like they can’t go two episodes without making one (Ironically enough, in an interview I did with Daily Show writer Rob Kutner a couple months back, he said that most of the Jew […]
Posted in Beliefs on October 23rd, 2009 2 Comments »
A.J. Jacobs is a bit of a gonzo journalist and a little bit of an undercover secret agent — but, most of all, he is a living, walking experiment. In his first book, The Know-It-All, he read the entire Encyclopædia Britannica from beginning to end. In his follow-up, The Year of Living Biblically, he attempted […]
Posted in History, Beliefs on October 23rd, 2009 1 Comment »
Samuel Heilman serves as a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York and as the Harold Proshanky Chair in Jewish Studies at the CCNY’s Graduate Center. He has spoken and lectured as a visiting professor at universities in Israel, China, South Korea, and Australia, as well as […]
Posted in Beliefs on October 23rd, 2009 1 Comment »
The images of God as lover, friend, companion, and co-creator are more appropriate metaphors for the God of the covenant than are the traditional images of lord and king. Defining God’s power not as domination but as empowerment, they evoke a God who is with us instead of over us, a partner in dialogue who […]
Posted in Beliefs on October 16th, 2009 No Comments »
The Jewish people were rebuked for having “having forgotten God, Who formed you” (D’varim 32:18). This forgetfulness is the principle factor that distances a person from God.
In the prayer that he composed, R. Elimelech of Lizhensk says, “May our mind be pure, clear, clean and strong.” Everyone knows that, if he were to literally see […]
Posted in Beliefs on October 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
Look, it’s all semantics, okay? Whatever you want to call God — Hashem, Elokim, the Creator, the One, the Dude, Yud-Key-a-bunch-of-other-letters — you’re basically talking about the extraworldly force Who brought the universe into being. It’s God, people.
Well: not necessarily so.
DailyGlobal.com is reporting that Professor Ellen van Wolde, a Bible scholar, believes that the world […]
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