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Ben Avuyah: January 2006
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Welcome to the Pardess. Wednesday, January 25, 2006. Memoirs of a Yeshiva MIsfit Part Three: The List. The headlights were blinding, and I stepped back, off the paved road, on to soft earth and grass, waving a hand at the driver. I took a last deep breath of what smelled like freedom. The passenger side window rolled down in a display of high technology for the time. New , he asked, where are you off to? Pine , I replied, putting my hand on the door, right where it crosses fifth. I replied, and expounded...
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Ben Avuyah: May 2005
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Welcome to the Pardess. Monday, May 30, 2005. My master, my lips open, and I cannot but speak your praise. I bow as well but it has been many years since I have chosen to converse with my master. He has an odd nature, my master does. Half mystical, omniscient, and kindly father; half enraged kindergartner ready to kick whatever is closest. He has chosen to have us remind ourselves of his, shall we say quirky , personality traits three times a day in the Shema. So there it is the central tenet of our reli...
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Ben Avuyah: June 2006
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Welcome to the Pardess. Friday, June 30, 2006. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? That being said I think the ID debate deserves to be looked out from all perspectives. And while many people may be using it simply as an excuse to get God in the classroom, I am interested in why orthodox Jews find ID so palliativewhat pain is it relieving? Why is naturalism so easily accepted in other areas but not here? Thus a Torah that makes no claims about aerodynamics and lives happily along side it perhaps supplying the "...
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Ben Avuyah: September 2005
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Welcome to the Pardess. Wednesday, September 07, 2005. My brother sent me this link today of a NASA probe slingshoting around earth, and although it was great to view, I felt a little sad that this may be as close to space travel as we get in our lifetimes. Http:/ messenger.jhuapl.edu/ the .dis depart.mpeg. Posted by Ben Avuyah @ 7:05 PM. Saturday, September 03, 2005. Memoirs of a Yeshiva Misfit: Part Two. But they had not envisioned my particular pathology. My unique deficiency in spirituality. I suppos...
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Ben Avuyah: December 2005
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Welcome to the Pardess. Sunday, December 18, 2005. Sometimes I still get Angry. Here came the tears. Will it ever come back , she asked, with one starting to trickle down her cheek. It was not an easy question to answer but the statistics, the studies, and clinical acumen all pointed in one direction. A little bit may return, but it won’t be the way you remember it, not with the same clarity or definition. More tears. I handed her a tissue and waited. And forty five minutes later here I was at the conclu...
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Ben Avuyah: April 2006
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Welcome to the Pardess. Saturday, April 08, 2006. Bang, Bang, Bang. The knocks fell like thunder, reverberating around Daniel’s neoprene room with a sonic force that jiggled the sparse collection of knick-knacks on his shelves to and fro. Daniel stirred from the deep bliss of sleep, that precious abandonment of consciousness, and awakened into the world; sitting up in bed, hair all askew. He noticed his hands were shaking. Bang, Bang, Bang. How long had it been? He steadied himself by placing his hands o...
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david's harp: February 2006
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Formerly 'the daas and the diybur'. musings on the jumbled interplay between emotions, ideas and beliefs. Monday, February 20, 2006. I’ve had a number of heated discussions recently about the Dutch cartoons and the violent responses which have arisen. For the record, I find the rioting, destruction and hateful rhetoric, which has certainly been exacerbated by politicians and clerics, to be morally reprehensible. Period. If your answer is ‘no’, then you don’t get it. So, while we’re busy congratulating ou...
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david's harp: January 2006
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Formerly 'the daas and the diybur'. musings on the jumbled interplay between emotions, ideas and beliefs. Thursday, January 26, 2006. After all, there are more than enough difficult points of belief within Judaism to have rational reasons to disbelieve. If anything, believing which requires the acceptance of almost endless supernatural events and divine prophesies - is far less rational. Posted by dbs at 12:22 AM. Tuesday, January 24, 2006. An orthodox seventeen year old student. I think that you'll ...
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david's harp: March 2006
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Formerly 'the daas and the diybur'. musings on the jumbled interplay between emotions, ideas and beliefs. Monday, March 27, 2006. Thousands of people are working in an enormous mine facility, many miles underground. The mine is stocked with food, water, energy and oxygen to last them one year. There is a huge explosion which completely destroys the tunnel which is the sole link between the mine and the surface. The tunnel is a remarkable engineering effort which took over 20 years to dig. Selecting a nam...
