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My First Teaching Non-Anxiety Dream
“Moses and the Tablets”Rembrandt, 1659 My First Teaching Non-Anxiety Dream I don’t know how many academics and former academics have teaching anxiety dreams, but mine followed me even after stepping down from active faculty status. You can take the girl … Continue reading →
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Tagged anxiety dreams, blaming Moses, Book of Numbers, Cain and Abel, classroom discipline, documentary hypothesis, ecumenical dream, Exodus narrative, fear of public speaking, first fratricide, Hebrew Bible as history, Hebrew Scriptures, historicity of bible, Iliad, Israelite grumbling, Israelite wilderness narrative, Jewish calendar year, Korah's rebellion, liberal denomination, literary text interpretation, Mahabarata, Moses' leadership, naturalistic text interpretation, naturalistic worldview, nightmare, parashah, Pentateuch, Plato's influence, providential intervention, recurrent nightmare, Reform congregation, spiritual envy, student back talk, student's support, teacher's authority, Torah, Torah Study, truth v persuasiveness, Western philosophy
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Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites
Nudnikerie: My Album of Antisemites Nudnik: “A nudnik is not just a nuisance; to merit the status of nudnik, a nuisance must be the most persistent, talkative, obnoxious, indomitable, and indefatigable nag.” The Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten. As … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", ad hominem attack, bigotry, Christian friends, collegiality violated, dangerous pessimism, dark corners, dark memory, double standard, European Femininity, European women, evasion, G.I. Bride, German complicity, good guys, groupthink, Hitler’s reading list, Hitler’s sport events, in the wrong job, insulting speech, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", Jewish neighbors, Jewish opinion, loaded questions, memory, naturalistic worldview, outdoor cafes, outdoor prayer, peaceniks, personal stories, picking a quarrel, prayer as last resort, religious experience, religious turn, requirements of priesthood, self-deception, self-righteousness, Shoah, talking to God, the Holocaust, the human soul, the Other, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, war-time trauma, womanly arts, wrong life path, wrong vocation
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