Sometime over the High Holy Days, Rabbi Scheinberg suggested to check out Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks‘ weekly podcast Covenant & Conversation. In general Rabbi Scheinberg’s reading suggestions are spot on and I had no doubt that a podcast referral would also we worthwhile. A simple synopsis of the references in this week’s commentary should [...]
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 ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 27th of December 2007 at 12:30:34 AM ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 22nd of November 2007 at 10:05:08 PMMonday night at JTS, Dan and I attended a lecture by Dr. Daniel Matt on How the Zohar Reimagines God. Dr. Matt is the lead author on a new translation of the Zohar and a quick internet search demonstrates he is one of the leading scholars in this area. It is important to note that [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Sunday, 18th of November 2007 at 09:59:30 PMIt is very good to have a special room set aside for Torah study and prayer. Such a room is especially beneficial for secluded meditation and conversation with G-d. The Rebbe said that it is very good even just to sit in such a special room. The atmosphere itself is beneficial, even if you sit [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 21st of March 2007 at 09:26:25 PMIt would appear that the standard verse for my name – נתן is Proverbs 20:27 נר יהוה נשמת אדם חפש כל חדרי בטן A man’s soul is the lamp of Hashem, which searches the chambers of one’s innards A note in my Tanach says: By means of the soul, G-d searches man’s innermost thoughts and [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Monday, 5th of February 2007 at 06:31:23 AMPondering the end-times…the topic of Reconstructionism, particularly the removal of the supernatural makes me think of The Jefferson Bible. I have never read it, as I only learned of it recently. Seems like many a person has tried to remove the supernatural before (even though this case it is re: Jesus, but the sentiment it [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Sunday, 4th of February 2007 at 08:28:10 PMIn an attempt to prevent my soul and life from being comoditized 24-7-365, I have decided to try to not spend a dime on Shabbat. Not a new proposition, there are buy nothing days and other anti-consumerism events. But this one is the original! A reminder to take one day and spend it with your [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Sunday, 24th of December 2006 at 08:31:19 PMKatie and I are just back from making some deliveries around Hoboken for some of the less fortunate. I have to admit that I had no idea there was that level of struggling right in my own backyard. On the cusp of 2007, I am going to use this feeling to volunteer even more in [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Sunday, 17th of December 2006 at 11:29:53 AMThis is a new one for me! I was always under the impression this was about how we were oppressed, beaten down, and almost rendered extinct, but suddenly a hero appeared and all was not lost. Jews once again were saved by a miracle. But in reading last night I read a redux that stepped [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Monday, 20th of November 2006 at 05:26:52 PMI have always had this notion that the supernatural part of religion can be set aside, you don’t have to debate it, it might have happened, it might not, I don’t care either way. Because, the real point, is that some very smart people wrote down the way a society should be run, in a [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 17th of November 2006 at 08:53:14 AMI was this original, sorry just don’t watch enough TV. Go look at this post and watch the clip. This is all so boring. Fanatics are boring. ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 10th of November 2006 at 09:34:49 PMLast night on Fox 5 – before you laugh, sometimes it is nice to be infotained – they went over the policy change at Wal*Mart and Macy’s where they are going to start to say Merry Christmas again this year. They had people call or email what they think about this. The Wal*Mart guy said [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Tuesday, 7th of November 2006 at 09:42:43 AMMen wearing pantyhose, dressed in long frocks, and big fur hats. Gay Pride or Shabbat in a Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood? Yeah the irony is thick. G-d, it seems likes people who dress like freaks better. That is good for drag and good for Jews. I admit I have envy over those 6000$ sable hats. I want [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 25th of October 2006 at 02:52:00 AMLate one night working on projects around the building. The Ark and Bima are grand and simply wonderful to look at. The building is called The Star of Israel as it belonged to one part of the now united synagogue. It really is a wonderful old building with creaky stairs, tucked away rooms, and [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 5th of October 2006 at 08:21:00 PMLook, I promise I am not obsessed, but a day does not go by with out a story on the news here about Israel, something in the paper about Israel, and of course there is Idan, who is Israeli! If pressed to state a favorite part of Israel I first have to distinguish between northern, [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 22nd of September 2006 at 08:32:10 PMLet’s get to the point. There is a exact nexus between these two men’s recent public comments. It is also the point of the 73 volumes of the Talmud. Reason and debate along with faith make a whole man. Thereby, collective transitivity, make a whole society. I am, as most of you know, a BS [...] |
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