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The Strength of Judiasm. The Courage of Social Justice.

Posted in Beliefs on July 26th, 2011 No Comments »

Eric Greitens‘ most recent book, The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL, is now available. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning’s Author Blog. In the preface of The Heart and the Fist, I explain to the reader that I’ve been lucky enough [...]

An Empty Mental Space

Posted in Beliefs on July 22nd, 2011 No Comments »

Earlier this week, Dr. Erica Brown asked, “What are the Three Weeks, anyway?”, and wrote about learning to mourn. Her new book, In the Narrow Places, is now available. Jewish law is based generally on the assumption that our emotions follow our actions. If we act charitably, we will become, over time, more compassionate human beings. We [...]

Wise Fridays: Bread and Torah

Posted in Beliefs, Texts on July 15th, 2011 No Comments »

“Where there is no food there is no Torah; and where there is no Torah there is no food.” –Pirkei Avot, 3:21 Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on MJL.  

Wise Fridays: Money is Fire

Posted in Beliefs, History on July 1st, 2011 No Comments »

“Money is fire. Like fire it can destroy and annihilate, or illuminate and warm, depending on how it is used.” –Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on MJL.  

Wise Fridays: Supreme Importance

Posted in Beliefs on June 17th, 2011 No Comments »

“God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.” –Abraham Joshua Heschel Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on MJL.

Wise Fridays: We’re All in the Same Boat

Posted in Beliefs, History on June 3rd, 2011 No Comments »

A man in a boat began to bore a hole under his seat. His fellow passengers protested. ‘What concern is it of yours?’ he responded, ‘I am making a hole under my seat, not yours.’ They replied, ‘That is so, but when the water enters and the boat sinks, we too will drown.’ –Rabbi Shimon [...]

Wise Fridays: The Free Will Problem

Posted in Beliefs, History on May 27th, 2011 No Comments »

“To act rightly or otherwise rests for the most part with man, but in each action Fate cooperates.” –Josephus Flavius Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on MJL.

Justin Bieber’s New Tattoo

Posted in Beliefs, Culture on May 25th, 2011 No Comments »

Oh good news! Justin Bieber, King of the Universe, got a tattoo–and it’s in Hebrew! But before we Jews get too excited about the potential of the Biebs converting to Judaism, there is a slight issue to overcome first. The tattoo, located on his rib cage, spells out the name “Yeshu,” which roughly translates (and [...]

Wise Fridays: Born as an Object

Posted in Beliefs, Life on May 20th, 2011 No Comments »

“Man is born as an object, dies like an object, but possesses the ability to live like a subject, like a creator, an innovator, who can impress his own individual seal upon his life and can extricate himself from a mechanical type of existence and enter into a creative, active mode of being.” –Rabbi Joseph [...]

Celebrating Osama’s Death

Posted in Beliefs on May 4th, 2011 6 Comments »

“My creatures are drowning in the sea, and you want to sing?” – Babylonian Talmud Megillah 10b It took less than 24 hours for American t-shirt vendors to come up with shirts celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden: “It Took Obama to Get Osama,” “Voted Off the Planet” and “Public Enemy #1 is Dead.” According to [...]

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