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Atonement Day
Atonement Day Monday’s not only the day set aside in the Jewish calendar for Atonement, but it’s the day on which I’d committed to leading an afternoon discussion group at my Reform Temple. The discussion leader has about ten minutes … Continue reading →
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Tagged a spiritual transformation, absolution, African-American sociologist, anthropologists, anthropologists’ agendas, atonement, capital crimes, conspicuous consumption, covenant as blessing, cultural relativism, cultures and slavery, Day of Atonement, destroying desirability, destroying dignity, destroying human worth, discussion group, discussion leader, Elie Wiesel’s Night, finding forgiveness, forgiveness of sin, forgiving, forgiving genocide, Gen. 12:3, grace of God, Harvard sociologist, Holocaust memoirs, Holocaust survivor, Holocaust victim, human dignity, human worth, indigenous tribe, Jewish doctrine of atonement, judgment, judgmental, Lutheran chaplain, Lutheranism, maintaining desirability, metric for evil, moral intelligibility, moral judgment, moral transparency, Nazi war criminals, nonjudgmental, Nuremberg, Nuremberg Trials, objective right and wrong, optimism and sanity, Orlando Patterson, Orlando Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death, potlatch ceremony, practicality, Reform temple, repairing wrongs, Ruth Benedict’s Patterns of Culture, salvation, sin, sin and wrongdoing, slavery, the Kwakiutl, Tim Townsend’s Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and The Trial of the Nazis, value neutrality, value-neutral anthropology, victims’ denial, Yom Kippur
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“Believe You Me”
“Believe You Me” In “Treachery and Transcendence,” last week’s column, I wrote about the disappointing “new treatment” for my walking handicap. Despite all, I decided to continue it for another week or two, just to see if it could be … Continue reading →
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Tagged a patient's trust, action, Ambiguity, antecedent conditions, Arc of the Covenant, Ark of the Covenant, bad check, belief, broken promise, bystanders, chosen people, commitment, credance, credibility, demoralization, demoralizing experience, desert wandering, determinism, Divine mission, Egyptian bondage, Emmanuel Levinas, enabling, experimental treatment, fate of Korah, freedom, holiness, human worth, iatrogenic, interpersonal relationships, Israelites, Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Korah's rebellion, land of milk and honey, Levite rebellion, Levites, lying, manna, midrash, misplaced help, moral dispute, Moral evaluation, moral responsibility, Moses, Moses' humility, Moses' leadership, Mount Sinai, nocebo effect, nullified promise, Numbers 16, parting of Red Sea, passover night, philosophers, placebo effect, plausibility, playing devil's advocate, prayer guidance, promise, promissory note, psychology, rebel faction, repairing the breach, repairing the world, Sartre's "the serious man", spiritual competition, spiritual envy, spiritual mediator, spiritual rank, spiritual track record, temptation, the Other, the ten plagues, Torah Study, transcendence, treachery, trust, truth, univocality, walking handicap, words
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Close Friends
Close Friends This is one I keep revisiting. But friendship is one of life’s prime supports – almost the axis on which the whole thing turns – so one post hardly exhausts the subject. Last Sunday morning I spoke long … Continue reading →
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Tagged academia, Authenticity, best friends, biography, college friends, combat, consequences, consolation, conversation, David and Goliath, David and Jonathan, David's lament, death, dynastic succession, farmgirl, friendship, genius, heir, Henry M. Rosenthal, Heraclitus, human worth, King Saul, lament, lifelong friendship, Lionel Trilling, Lord of hosts, love, male beauty, male friendship, mediation, memory, Old Testament, personal and political, personal rift, philosophy student, Plato, playing the harp, political talent, political threat, present and future, Psalms, slingshot, Success, tape recording, The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900, William (Johnson) Cory, womanizing
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