Another Way Of Looking At Things, Breaking False Dichotomies, Hold Dualities Together, Longform, News & Politics, Spirituality & Faith, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized, Wisdom Daily News / 01 Jul 2022
Staying on the Sidelines
If Christian prayer is OK, are others?
Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Compassion and Empathy, Inspiring Story, Mundane Into Sacred, Spirituality & Faith, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized, Weekly Parsha, Wisdom Daily News / 30 Jun 2022
We Read Torah Differently in Israel
Take time to stand and see.
Another Way Of Looking At Things, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized, Weekly Parsha / 22 Jun 2022
Visual versus Verbal
The Power of Language
Art & Culture / 20 Jun 2022
A Kippah And A Hijab In The Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rethinking how Jewishness is portrayed in the movies.
Uncategorized, Weekly Parsha, Wisdom Warehouse / 17 Jun 2022
When You Raise Them Up…
The best advice I can offer is to ignore all the advice you get.
News & Politics |
February 18, 2022
Why Did My School District Cancel A Trip To The Holocaust Museum?
Forgetting the atrocities of the past is the first step towards allowing more persecution in the future....
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Interviews With Wise People Of Today |
February 15, 2022
Author Lyn Barrett On Her Dissociative Identity Disorder Diagnosis
An Interview with Lyn Barrett, author of Crazy: Reclaiming Life From the Shadow of Traumatic Memory.
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Another Way Of Looking At Things, Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Building New Identities, Compassion and Empathy, Longform, Soul Writings, Uncategorized |
February 08, 2022
We Have Returned…
…even though we never physically left our homes. As in my other post, I want to offer in the same-immediacy-writing commitment a glimpse of where I am now sitting, how I am now sitting, and the hope I feel while being here in this fragmented and polarizing era we find ourselves in, in reconsidering citizenship. I honor that it will be, at some level, incomprehensible or easy-to-dismiss from outside the experience. I honor that only a percentage of the 24 students who engaged in this trip will share in what I have......
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Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Compassion and Empathy, Longform, Longform, Mundane Into Sacred |
February 04, 2022
Freedom to Give
“A contract is a transaction. A covenant is a relationship. A contract is about interests. A covenant is about identity. That is why contracts benefit, but covenants transform.“ In these terse words of enduring wisdom, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks draws our attention to the covenants we might long have overlooked and the contracts that we mistook for something more (see Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times for additional wisdom). Such was certainly the case for the Israelites, as becomes evident in this week’s Torah portion, T’rumah (Exodus 25:1 – 27:19). It......
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Being mindful and living in the present moment allows us to notice more deeply the multitude of blessings that we have in our own lives....
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Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Compassion and Empathy, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized, Uncategorized, Weekly Parsha |
January 28, 2022
Seeing the Unseen
Over the last few weeks, the astronomy world watched each step of the James Webb Space Telescope unfold. Aside from all the usual nervousness surrounding a rocket launch, there were 344 single-point failures as it tried to help us see farther, deeper, and more clearly into the reaches of deep space. Miraculously, each step worked exactly as planned – NASA was hoping things would go smoothly, but with rocket science, a lot can go wrong even if the mission is well-planned and designed. There was a palpable sense of relief as the......
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Achieving Never Again, in all its facets, begins with the commitment to Never Forget....
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Listen To The Names Of The Victims First
A video where Brad Hirschfield lists the victims names in the recent Orlando shooting. Because first we need to internalize a tragedy before we jump to speak.
