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Bless Me Also Father
In my grandfather’s Manhattan apartment overlooking Riverside Drive, the family would collect for the annual Passover celebration. Round the table were his sons and their wives, his younger daughter, my mother, along with my father, my sister and me. His … Continue reading →
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Tagged academic bureaucracy, anti-semitism as sibling rivalry, asking the four questions, beginning of history, book of Genesis, Christian view of history, crucifixion redeems Original Sin, family gathering, favorite child, fight for the blessing, finger of God, first sibling rivalry, fratricide, Garden of Eden, God’s favorite, Grandfather’s blessing, history differently read by Christians and Jews, How Christians set the stage for history, How Jews set the stage for history, Jacob and Esau, Jewish view of history, Jewish vs Christian differences, Jewish vs Christian expulsion from Eden, Jewish vs Christian theology, Judaism vs Christianity Re Original Sin, looking like God, matzah, mock bargaining at Passover, native born Israeli, original sin, paintings of God, Passover celebration, performative predictions, Rav Tsair, recent anti-semitism, Sabra, sabra cousin, same Biblical stories differently read, sibling rivalry in the Bible, Sistine chapel, stealing the blessing, what Abel knew that Cain did not, why Cain killed Abel
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Ancestors
How odd of God To choose the Jews. So goes the old rhyming joke, from I dunno who. Some Englishman perhaps. But allow me to step in, on behalf of God, to explain why God did that. My explanation may count as … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abrahamic religion, ancestors, being above it, bible as historical, Book of Job, chief rabbi of Odessa, chosen people, cost of life choices, covenant as divine partnership, covenant with God, divine connections, divine to human relationship, drama of assimilation, Edmund de Waal's The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, empathy with God, family mysteries, family puzzle pieces, Family secrets, fleeing Europe, following one's heart, generational memory, God and Abraham, God in history, God in meditation, God in nature, God outside the Bible, God's footprints in history, hidden epic, history as record of action, history as record of deeds, How odd of God, inherited duties, inherited roles, inherited sorrows, Jewish destiny, Jewish genius, Jewish history, Jewish predicaments, Jewish vulnerability, Jewish week of mourning, Jews agree to the covenant, Jews and insult, Jews consent to covenant, Jews in Vienna, Jews record the covenant, justifying God, lech lecha, lifelong friendship, love or duty, native born Israeli, Nazi genocide, Neve Granot, personal affinities, Rav Tsair, Rechov Rav Tsair, religious chanting, religious rituals, Sabra, Shiva, sympathy with God, the covenant as partnership with God, the Jewish assignment, theodicy, Tom Stoppard, Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt, Viennese roots, walking a social tightrope, wealth as protection, Wittgensteins of Vienna, writers' conversation
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