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Jewish Time
Jewish Time Lately, I’ve had a growing sense of living my life on something I call “Jewish Time.” Have I anything concrete in view? In my childhood, when my parents were awaiting Israeli dinner guests, they expected them to be … Continue reading
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“Ambiguity”
“Ambiguity” If the current era were to gain a label, it might be called “The Age of Ambiguity.” Whether in self-praise or regret, there is wide agreement that nothing is clearly X or not-X. Rather, everything is a bit of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adin Steinsaltz, Ambiguity, angels, Arbitration, atheist, Being and Nothingness, complexity, contradiction, disambiguate, diversity, Fear and Trembling, French existentialism, G.W.F. Hegel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kabbalah, leap of faith, muddling through, philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, The Phenomenology of Mind, The Thirteen Petaled Rose, Western films
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