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Posted in History, Beliefs, Texts on November 20th, 2009 
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Shabbat is starting earlier and earlier. Someone please stop the sun. It is on a reign of terror that I just can’t handle right now. Then again, ending Shabbat at 5:15 in the afternoon isn’t such a bad thing either. So…I guess…keep doin’ your thing sun (and no one write me with that whole “it’s […]
Posted in Practices, Beliefs on November 20th, 2009 No Comments »
A few days ago a friend sent me a link to this site, and my head has been spinning ever since. There is a lot to see at The Geulah Company, but so far my favorite thing is the button I was originally directed to.
The Geulah Company suggests other things that you may want to […]
Posted in Practices, Beliefs on November 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
Last week I was at this salon type thing where a diverse group of Jews had a conversation about Jewish peoplehood. I have no sense of what that means, and to be honest, I don’t think it makes that big of a difference, but one thing that someone mentioned was if there’s a way to […]
Posted in Beliefs on November 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Renunciation of chemical and biological warfare, and humane treatment for prisoners of war…are certainly marks of civilized peoples, but on a more fundamental level such matters are little different from a convention requiring cannibals to eat with knives and forks. “Civilized warfare” is inherently a self-contradiction.
–Rabbi David J. Bleich
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Posted in Beliefs, Life on November 6th, 2009 No Comments »
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 […]
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