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Happy birthday to the world! | Awkward Offerings
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Blogging Torah, Tattoos, and Truth. Happy birthday to the world! Like a pencil poised for calculation, a key not yet turned. In the twitchy ignition, so was the curved throat of God in the nothing. Before the (ready, so ready) beginning. Then: Black letters proclaimed onto the white parchment universe. Then: Big Bang (call it what you will). Water swirling away from water and sapphire sky pouring out. Greater lights and lesser, crackling meteors and stars. Diploid, twin and twin). Leave one →. PHOTOGRAPH...
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Love is a battlefield | Awkward Offerings
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Blogging Torah, Tattoos, and Truth. Love is a battlefield. First paragraph: If you go out to battle and see a woman fair of form, don’t be a brute. Take her home, let her mourn for 30 days, and only then can she be yours to marry. If after that you tire of her, she is not to be sold, but set free. These are the beginning commandments of. The portion marking the week of my stepdaughter’s wedding, and the text from which words of Torah were to be gleaned at the men’s. 8221;table”. In more. This is courtesy...
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Heaven & Earth will surely witness against us | Awkward Offerings
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Blogging Torah, Tattoos, and Truth. Heaven and Earth will surely witness against us. The state of Georgia may execute Troy Davis on September 21st and if there is only one thing you read in the next 24 hours, make it Explaining the Death Penalty to my Children. By blogger Emily Hauser. This has been a week of death. At last Monday’s CNN-Tea Party Republican debate, members of the audience shouted “Yeah! How beyond insane is that? Oh yeah, have I mentioned that 750,000 people may starve in Somalia because...
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How are we to live in this world? | Awkward Offerings
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Blogging Torah, Tattoos, and Truth. How are we to live in this world? Tags: Life and Death. This is not a trifling thing for you: it is your very life. I ask you. On any given day, someone is rude to you for no good reason. Your mother lays a heavy guilt trip for not calling her since Saturday. A friend asks if they look fat. You wonder whether to ignore someone’s request for help until it’s too late. How are we to live in this world? I keep coming back to Torah. About the need for a path in one̵...
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Torah/Poetry | Awkward Offerings
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Blogging Torah, Tattoos, and Truth. Here’s where you find poems on the weekly Torah readings in order of appearance. Go to the right book, then simply click on the title. Book 1: Beresheit / Genesis / In the beginning. Book 2: Shemot / Exodus / Names. Book 3: Vayikra / Leviticus / And (God) called. Book 4: BeMidbar / Numbers / In the desert. Book 5: Devarim / Deuteronomy / Words (things). 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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Why I’m beating my breast on Yom Kippur | Awkward Offerings
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Blogging Torah, Tattoos, and Truth. Why I’m beating my breast on Yom Kippur. We have gone astray, we have led others astray. Friends, I was going to write an extended meditation about the. Headline #1: Last week in Anatot. Are chilling. Did I mention this took place on Rosh Hashanah? Headline #2: An 18-year-old Jewish settler is alleged to have set fire to a mosque. Headline #3: Israeli soldiers were surrounded and assaulted yesterday. This is nothing less than disgusting. And it calls for repentance....
