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Time and Me
Time and Me When I was a little girl, I didn’t worry about Time at all. I pretended I was a deer and roved the forests. I pretended I was a boy raised by wolves and roamed the jungle. Back … Continue reading
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Tagged actualization and time, adolescence, adolescent boys, believing the unbelievable, book illustration, childhood’s end, coming of age, coquetry, coquetry in Europe, filling time, Flirting, flirting in America, future, getting your work done, growing pains, growing up in America, here today gone tomorrow, hypothetical and actual, imaginary worlds, intentionality, John Tenniel, knowing what’s real, knowing who one is, learning one’s purpose, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, life lessons, life regrets, life vocation, life’s work, Michelangelo, nostalgia, one’s calling, past, present, realization and time, running out of time, sufficient unto the day, teenage angst, temporality, the coming of reason, the lens of time, the real and the imaginary, Time, time and purpose, time flies, time of childhood, time’s wingéd chariot, to last and get your work done, wallflower, women friends, young girls in bloom
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A Chosen People?
A Chosen People? These days I have been reading a splendid book in draft by a British analytic philosopher showing the fallacies that make up the new anti-semitism. He shares the broadly secular worldview of those he opposes, which is … Continue reading
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Tagged Analytic philosophy, anti-semitic cartoons, anti-semitism, anti-semitism explained, Bible, bitter anger, British Analytic Philosophy, British Philosophy, capitalists, chosenness, chronological record, civility, colleagues, Communists, contemporary world view, cosmopolitans, critical reading, culpable negligence, deathless hatred, different, Edward Alexander's Jews Against Themselves, eliminationism, explosive anger, fallacies, God as a player, God's chosen people, good story, Gotthold Lessings's Nathan the Wise, guests, hatred, incivility, irrelevant accusations, Jews, liberal good will, longest hatred, maladroitness, Michael Wyschogrod, mistaken beliefs, mistaken choice, misunderstandings, nationalists, outsider, particularlist v universalist, political guilt, post-prophetic era, prophecy in Israel, prophetic era, reading the Bible, resentment, ressentiment, Sabra and Shatila, scapegoat, secular explanation, secular society, secular world view, secularism, shape-changing, significant dream, spiritual cure, spiritual malady, street protests, successful, Sydney newspapers, temporality, theologian, theology, true story, understanding the Bible, war crimes, weird phenomenon, zen-like
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“Presence”
“Presence” Our rabbi, whom our temple can no longer afford to employ, will be gone in a few more weeks. This Friday, the temple is holding a service in his honor and I am one of those in the lineup … Continue reading
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Tagged "be here now", "being here now", 1776, absence, America, American covenant, Biblical covenant, biblical criticism, biblical Israel, chagrin, clock time, covenant, Declaration of Independence, employment contract, Eternity, farewells, feminine side of God, Femininity, forefathers, Fourth of July, frustration, hail and farewell, half-absence, higher criticism, History, homesickness, Independence Day, insolvency, Jewish continuity, Jewish memory, Jewish scholarship, Jewish temporality, Jewish theology, Jon D. Levenson, Jon D. Levenson's Sinai & Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible, living in the now, loss, maternal love, meditation, memory, moral courage, Mother, past present and future, patriotism, pop psychology, presence, Rabbi, rabbinate, sabbath, Shabbat, Shekinah, spirituality, temporality, Torah Study
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