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READ MORESeparation
I am reading a wonderful new biography about William Wilberforce, the great British anti-slave trade campaigner. As part of the book, the author, William Hague, describes the slave trade, how slaves were kidnapped and transported in the most brutal conditions with no regard to health or humanity. One of the more disgusting stories describes how […]
READ MOREJewish Perfection
Perfection is definitely not a Jewish thought or attribute. Consider the patriarchs of Judaism such as Noah who gets drunk, Jacob who steals his brother’s birthright by misleading his father Isaac, and even Moses, the greatest of all Jews, speaks with a lisp and disobeys God. And we could have a field day talking about […]
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I am currently in Jerusalem studying at a place called Pardes (Pardes link). I thought I would write an update as to why I’m here and what I’m studying. Here is one teaching I learned this week that I thought quite profound. The Torah and Judaism is filled with contradictions and one of the best […]
READ MOREThoughts on Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED video
I have a couple of thoughts about Jill Bolte Taylor’s video about the brain and her stroke experience. The first thought is how interesting it is that the two hemispheres of the brain are completely separate. That the right brain lives in the present moment, thinks in pictures and learns through feeling. The right brain […]
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