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The Baal Shem Tov
The Baal Shem Tov The Baal Shem Tov (Master of the Good Name) is the preeminent Hassidic master, the 18th-century founder (1700-1760) and prototype of any follower who practices in that tradition. His very presence was said to be a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Authenticity, Baal Shem Tov, balancing power, becoming a Jew, charisma, Christian saints, converting to Judaism, cosmetic envy, crowd approval, dog approval, envy of Jews, envy of skills, fearlessness, happy endings, Hassidic master, Hassidim, hatred of Jews, healing power, horse approval, insider envy, Jewish fears, Jewish saints, Jewish sect, Jewish spiritual gifts, Jewish spiritual history, keeping one's cool, Martin Buber, Martin Buber's "Tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters", overcoming bad inclinations, peak experiences, perfectability, perfection, personal story, piety, popularity, pseudo-feelings, recognizing a zaddik, self-actualization, self-curiosity, self-defeating reformers, sincere envy, sincere prayer, spiritual giants, staying in balance, strange fate of the Jews, the art of being Jewish, the Jewish spirit, tolerating the intolerable, untheatrical lives, Vilna Gaon, women's envy, zaddik
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The Feminine Force
The Feminine Force Some years ago, I met a young woman artist, a painter of very large canvasses, who had married a young Moroccan in order to give him a way to live and work in New York City. I … Continue reading →
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Tagged #metoo, 19th century philosophy, 19th-century literature, a woman's interest, anti-feminist, Arab youth, asymmetry of sexes, biological imperatives, Bullying, Cleopatra, co-education, conflicts in feminism, conformism, danger of rape, deceptive charm, dissent, equal representation, erotic ideal, ethical duty, expressing one's charm, fear of dissent, Feminine Force, Femininity, Feminism, free spirit, frustration, future of Russia, gallantry, gallantry in men, getting pregnant, handsome hero, Henry James's The Bostonians, ideal situation, imprinted by intimacy, Julius Caesar, lifting morale, Lionel Trilling, love worthiness, manipulativeness, Mark Antony, marriage for green card, masculine force, mastering the space, meaning of life, meeting mother, men's protectiveness, Michael Artzibashev's Sanine, Moroccan youth, mutual love, mysteries of eros, New York City, nihilist, obligation to be happy, original work, ostracism, peer pressure, personal fulfillment, post-Civil War, power of volition, protection of women, reading one's mind, reading the best, reciprocal commitment, relaxing resistance, resisting pressure, revising the canon, Richard Lovelace's To Lucasta Going to the Wars, rule breaker, Russian novels, self-actualization, self-surrender, sisterhood, social safety, Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life, Submission, surrendering one's will, Tel Aviv, the canon, the erotic, theoretical discussions, undocumented immigrant, what counts as consent, will power, women and STD, women in Islam, women students, women's charm, women's first intimacy, women's impregnability, women's liberation, women's seducibility, women's self-protection, women's vulnerabilities, yin and yang
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Moses and Me
Moses and Me I never liked Moses. Or more precisely, I never felt drawn to the Biblical figure. For one thing, he seems to me unromantic. He has no significant woman in his life (unless you count the sister and … Continue reading →
Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, American Politics, Anthropology, Art, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, beauty, Bible, Biblical God, bureaucracy, Childhood, Chivalry, Christianity, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, cults, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, eighteenth century, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, exploitation, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Films, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, Guilt and Innocence, hegemony, Heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, History, history of ideas, ID, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immorality, Immortality, Industrial Revolution, Institutional Power, Jews, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Male Power, Martyrdom, Masculinity, master, master/slave relation, Medieval, Memoir, memory, Messianic Age, Mind Control, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, Mortality, Mysticism, novels, Ontology, Oppression, pacifism, Past and Future, Peace, Philosophy, Poetry, Political, Political Movements, politics, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, presence, promissory notes, Propaganda, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Race, radicalism, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Renaissance, Roles, Romance, Romantic Love, Romanticism, scientism, secular, Seduction, self-deception, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, slave, social climbing, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, Sociobiology, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, Terror, terrorism, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Theism, Theology, Time, TV, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged anguish of Moses, Avivah Gottlieb Zorniber’s Moses: A Human Life, bad faith, Biblical characters, chosen people, co-religionists, compromised self, derivative selves, divided self, envy of Jews, father figures, God as design feature, God as energy, God as impersonal, God as laws of nature, God as laws of physics, God as Person, hatred of Jews, Henry M. Rosenthal, identifying across genders, identifying with Moses, incest, Jewish assignment, Jewish mission, Jewish self-hatred, Jewish survival, Jews as privileged, lovers in Scripture, marital love, mission of Moses, Moses, parricide, patriarchs in Genesis, patriarchy, personal God, psychoanalysis, Sarah Rebecca and Rachel, self-actualization, self-concealment, self-deception, self-loss, self-realization, self-unfolding, taking oneself seriously, true love, wives of patriarchs
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