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Itzik's Well: May 2015
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Visit Itzik's Well's new home at www.irwinkeller.com. Friday, May 15, 2015. B'Chukotai: What Did You Just Say? For Congregation Ner Shalom. At last night's congregational meeting, I mentioned my drash for tonight. What I said about it was that I had nothing. The only trigger I had was that on Wednesday I'd asked Siri to plot a route to Urban Adamah in Berkeley, to which Siri replied, "I'm sorry, Irwin, I cannot find any places matching Urban Octomom.". Are the true heir of Lenin and I. If you're good you...
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Itzik's Well: All of it: Gevurah
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Visit Itzik's Well's new home at www.irwinkeller.com. Sunday, April 26, 2015. All of it: Gevurah. I was honored to offer the invocation for the Sonoma County Yom Hashoah Commemoration on April 19:. Good afternoon. Shalom aleykhem. This year we have been asked to give special attention to the quality of gevurah,. But in Judaim the concept of gevurah. Is even broader than those descriptions. We use the word to mean strength, but it is not always an obvious kind of strength. In our mystical traditio...And h...
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Itzik's Well: The Eyes of a Goat
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Visit Itzik's Well's new home at www.irwinkeller.com. Friday, May 1, 2015. The Eyes of a Goat. Drash on Parashat Acharei Mot. But then, after this unimpeded flow of confession, the priest's job was to send this now-burdened innocent into the wilderness. What is up with this? You'd think that the magic of this expurgation would come in the form of laying sins on the goat and then, frankly, doing away with it. The place where the goat is gone. Or maybe oz azal. But here's the odd part about the ritual, a p...
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Itzik's Well: Spirograph, Leviticus, and the Cycles of our Lives
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Visit Itzik's Well's new home at www.irwinkeller.com. Friday, March 20, 2015. Spirograph, Leviticus, and the Cycles of our Lives. For Congregation Ner Shalom, Parashat Vayikra. New moon, new year, equinox, eclipse, junk in a basement. The possibilities are endless. Do you remember Spirograph? A new month, a new year, all of these arbitrary markers signal possibility. Rebirth. Reset. Reboot. So I wonder what we can offer up to help us move from state to state, or to be mindful when we do? These clothes, h...
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How Judaism Emerged from Hebraism | The Holy Halfbreed
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For descendants of intermarriage exploring jewish heritage. A Living God in Derek Eretz. How Judaism Emerged from Hebraism. March 13, 2013. And Other Stuff About the Talmud That You Might Not Know. The “written” Torah, or TaNaK, contains the Five Books of Moses, Nevi’im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings, or scrolls). The Oral Torah, or Mishna, was created long before the Hebrews were taken to Babylon in captivity, ca. 586 BCE. (The word. In the Gemara, the rabbis dissected the Mishna to determine what it...
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Torah Talmud | The Holy Halfbreed
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For descendants of intermarriage exploring jewish heritage. HOW JUDAISM EMERGED FROM HEBRAISM. And Other Stuff About the Talmud That You Might Not Know. The “written” Torah, or TaNaK, contains the Five Books of Moses, Nevi’im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings, or scrolls). The Oral Torah, or Mishna, was created long before the Hebrews were taken to Babylon in captivity, ca. 586 BCE. (The word. In the Gemara, the rabbis dissected the Mishna to determine what it said about Torah law. Although we find 3...
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Books | The Holy Halfbreed
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For descendants of intermarriage exploring jewish heritage. By and About Halfies. Half/Life: Jewish Tales from Interfaith Homes. Edited by Laurel Snyder. A beautiful collection of personal essays highlighting the navigational challenges of the Half-Jewish experience. You will see yourself in these mind-blowing pages. Getting to the Heart of Interfaith: The Eye-Opening, Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi, and a Sheikh. The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism. By Joseph Telushki...
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Halfies | The Holy Halfbreed
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For descendants of intermarriage exploring jewish heritage. WHAT WOULD SPINOZA DO? Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Brought Us Modernity. For these views he was excommunicated at the age of 23, but his Christian friends still considered him to be a Jew, which comes as no great surprise to any of us. Goldstein reinforces the Hotel California Theory of Jewish Identity: “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” What does it mean to be Jewish? These essays are lush, moving, nuanc...
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Holy Days | The Holy Halfbreed
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For descendants of intermarriage exploring jewish heritage. Passover, or Pesach, begins on the 15th of the month of Nissan. It celebrates the Exodus and the inception of Hebraism, the creation of the Jewish People. (The so-called “Jewish” New Year, which takes place in the fall, is actually the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, and thus humanity.). For seven or eight days there will be no leavened products, or. The four sons we speak of in the Passover Seder may represent one person with diffe...
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Judaism in past times, present, future, here and in the diaspora
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Judaism in past times, present, future,. Here and in the diaspora. A window on Israel. Radio en ligne Judaique FM. Paris museum of Jewish art and history. Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco. Fonds Social Juif de France. Conseil Representatif des Institutions Juives de. Fondation du judaisme francais. OSE organisation de secours aux enfants. Le campus numerique juif. Actualite Juive .net. Judaism Alsace and Lorraine. Historic Society of Jews from Egypt. Jews from Arab countries JAC. Isaac Ben Yaakov...
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