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Being Oneself
Normally, by the time I sit down to write this column, the topic has clearly presented itself. Today is no different, except that what wants to be written about here and now are two topics – and they are … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th century decadent, a self-corrective life, archaeology of self-knowledge, asking if beliefs are true, “The Hasidic Feminist” by Chava Green, Being oneself, campus Chabad, Chabad and women, collapse of French morale, converting to Hasidism, counting as Jewish, crisis of meaning, decadence and loss of desire, despair masking truth, digging under despair, discovering the basics of life, Dr. Chava Green, erotic ennui, experience and belief revisions, experimenting with Hasidism, fashionable absurdism, fashionable French decadence, fashionable Frenchman, finding a life system that fits, finding meaning in real life, finding meaning in real time, French contemporary novel, French culture and Islamicization, French Jews, French nihilism, gourmandise, Hasidism and women, Hasidism and women’s dress, Hasidism and women’s fashion, Hasidism and women’s fulfillment, how civilizations fall, human beings without beliefs, ideal man/woman relations, intellectual with nothing to live for, interdependence of beliefs and desire, Islamist takeover, Islamists in French politics, Jews leaving France, Joris-Karl Huysmans, living at second hand, living from one’s own center, looking for a life-system, loss of desire, loss of motivation, metaphysical meaning of womanhood, metaphysics of men and women, novel of decadence, pleasure no longer motivating, professor at the University of Paris, relation of belief and desire, search for meaning, secularism and orthodoxy, seeking authentic desires, seeking belief system that fits, Submission by Michel Houellebecq, the real person vs the persona, the zeitgeist in a French novel, transcendence within groundedness, women in the Messianic Age, women’s emotional fulfillment, women’s emotional intellectual and romantic fulfillment, women’s fulfillment, women’s intellectual fulfillment, women’s romantic fulfillment, women’s vital role, Yeats’ The Second Coming
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God’s Orders
God’s Orders In the past fortnight, I did something whose consequence makes it possible for me to return to the temple from which I’d walked away last March. I had private zoom conversations with two temple leaders who had, I … Continue reading →
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Tagged a woman's honor, Aristotelian view, Aristotle, Aristotle's Ethics, bad actor, balm in Gilead, Being oneself, Bible movies, blaming the messenger, Chabad, Charlton Heston, clearing misunderstandings, commandments and consent, congregational leadership, connection repair, Divine closeness, divine commands, freedom of the will, getting accountability, God's commands v human freedom, God's instructions, God's orders, hamsin, honor satisfied, hot desert wind, Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Practical Reason, Kantian view, knowing when to walk away, personal boundaries, prayer guidance, pre-modern purity of spirit, private wounds, resisting God's pressure, righteous combat, separate peace, suffering and healing, temple leadership, the believer's autonomy, The Ten Commandments movie, theism and naturalism, transformation of Moses, trauma
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If Our Time Could Speak
If Our Time Could Speak In recent columns, I’ve mentioned that for me The Plague has opened the time to read through the journals, correspondence and manuscripts, published and unpublished, of my late father, Henry M. Rosenthal, who was considered, … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th-century seriousness, 19th-century styles, A.E. Housman’s “With Rue My Heart is Laden”, addressing the future, ancient Rome, Archimedes, Authenticity, authenticity in the future, authenticity today, Being oneself, character-defining opinions, class genius, Columbia class of 1925, common peril, Covid-19 preventives, Covid-19 treatments, cultural boundary conditions, cultural limits, cultural parameters, deconstructionism, destabiliizing concepts, dissolving ethnic boundaries, dissolving historic boundaries, ethnic identity, father-daughter relation, filial piety, global cooperation, global research, group solidarity, group think, habit makes the monk, Henry M. Rosenthal, Henry M. Rosenthal's "Time Speaking" 1945, imitating a statue, imitating an emperor, imperial pose, inherited differences, international antiviral research, lever principle, liberating lightness, lighten up, lightfoot lads and lasses, lightness of today, literary legacy, men in the 1940s, mental roller coaster, mores of the era, normality, pagan science, paganism, pan-human research, people of the future, place to stand, portraying one’s era, pre-feminist women, professed lightness, re-valuating values, religious identity, Roman emperor, Roman statue, saying what you mean, social construct, socially bestowed credentials, speaking from the future, speaking from the past, spirit of the time, standing one’s ground, statuesque pose, striking a pose, style of lightness, styles of normality, styles of the 1940s, styles of today, The Plague, unprecedented common effort, unpublished manuscript, vanished landmarks, women in the 1940s
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Economic Life
Economic Life I suppose that people’s political differences turn on their differing solutions to the problem of economic life. What problem would that be? Oh, let’s say the human species has its overall metabolism: its ways of handling the inflow … Continue reading →
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Tagged Absentee owners, Agribusiness, Bachelor’s life, Being oneself, budget balancing, Craftsmen and industrialization, economic theories, Ethnic neighborhoods, Family farms, Farmers and industrial life, High living, Illiteracy and hunger, Leo Bronstein, Living within one’s means, Lubbock Texas, Manhattan neighborhoods, Norman Stone’s Europe Transformed: 1878-1919, output and input, Over-regulation, Philosophic life style, philosophic talent, public education, Railroads and the economy, Rent control, Small farms, small town life, Small towns and modernization, Soren Kierkegaard, Third Avenue El, Turkey Texas, Upper East Side, Urban life, Volunteerism
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