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Every time we say goodbye… « Lomedet
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Every time we say goodbye…. I have already outed myself here as a language geek. This week I came across an interesting and sad article discussing the extinction of many varieties of Jewish speech, a result of the dispersion of their communities into the wider world. See the article here:. Http:/ www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/136371/endangered-jewish-languages? And I have added a number of books from his bibliography to my TBR list. Yours for more ineffability in everyday life,. You are comm...
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After dark « Lomedet
https://lomedet.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/after-dark
Living in the city, we forget how the dark is. We forget its thickness, its silence, its mystery, its dread. Skittering from one light to the next, our eyes never rest, searching, searching, searching. Last weekend the dark came back. The days passed and for many of us the dark became the enemy,. And there will be scars from this fight; the city’s forest will remind us for years to come of the damage from this storm. And more immediate physical damage too–injuries from falling on ice and ...But in the lo...
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The Mayor and the Shofet « Lomedet
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The Mayor and the Shofet. There is nothing new under the sun. (Really, you can believe me; it says so in the bible.). By way of additional proof of this statement, here is another example of the present mimicking the past. Watching the distressing disintegration of Rob Ford has reminded me of nothing so much as the story of Yiftakh/Jephthah in the book of Shoftim/Judges. You may recall the story: Yiftakh becomes the. Leader of Israel at a low point in the nation’s history. Of Shoftim, the. 8221; (11:7) T...
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SAR principal explains decision to allow girls to wear tefillin at school minyanim – The Jewish Star « Lomedet
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SAR principal explains decision to allow girls to wear tefillin at school minyanim – The Jewish Star. I hope to have a chance to comment on this after shabbat but for now, I can’t resist posting this stellar example of what I hope Modern Orthodoxy can be. SAR principal explains decision to allow girls to wear tefillin at school minyanim – The Jewish Star. This entry was posted in Current thinking. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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Closing “The Pen” « Lomedet
https://lomedet.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/closing-the-pen
Closing “The Pen”. I’ve been thinking about the closure of the Kingston Penitentiary. (For a news report, go here. http:/ www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/kingston-penitentiary-closes-its-doors-as-canadas-most-famous-prison/article14598900/? I have always been on the side of the defence. I suppose I was warped in my youth by the Yom Kippur prayers in which we say, “Hush to the prosecutor! This entry was posted in Current thinking. The Mayor and the Shofet. After dark →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.