Mourning a dead disposition
On the mysterious persistence of faith
The Cruel, the Less Cruel, and the Kind
They say the opposite of cruelty is kindness, and that the opposite of hate is love, but it is rare to find a man of unalloyed cruelty and hatred. A man of pure hatred is like a man without legs, a tragedy, but an exception that proves the rule. Most of us are cruel and […]
On The Mysteries Of King Solomon And Koheles
I write this in my Sukkah, wearing my intellectual sleeping cap and bunny slippers, as the birds chirp all around on this glorious first morning of Chol Hamoed. Why, oh why, would Jews choose to read Koheles, Ecclesiastes, most nihilistic of all twenty-four scriptures, during a festival of joy? Granted, it is not my custom; Chabad […]
Love and Fear in Elul (part 1)
Bear with me: Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush helped me understand a mind-bending discourse on love and fear.
Jungle Radio 3 - God Is Not Love
Soundcloud for some reason had an issue with the dynamics of this recording. You may have to turn up the volume after the intro music.
The People Who Don’t Know How Much I Love Them
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke I was going to write […]
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