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Open Minded Torah: August 2010
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Monday, August 2, 2010. Table of Contents for Open Minded Torah. Open Minded Torah: Of Irony, Fundamentalism and Love. I Desire and Self. Do it Again Denzel: Fantasy and Second Chances. Caught in the Act: Torah and Desire. Swaying Towards Perfection: Torah, Worldliness and Perversion. The Big Game: Baseball, John Milton and Making Choices. Just Dreamin’: The Sages and the Interpretation of Dreams. Isaac’s Bad Rap. Writing an Inspirational Story. Of Rabbis and Rotting Meat. Torah and the Pleasure Principle.
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Open Minded Torah: July 2010
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010. I was just reading over a chapter of Open Minded Torah. Getting it ready for publication. There was something really annoying about the chapter - which I realized, after a while, was the presence of so many exclamation marks! Elmore Leanord in giving advice for writers. Advises that 'you are allowed only two or three exclamation marks for every 100,000 words of prose.' My piece was only 1500 words, and I had already used seven! I was way over the limit! Monday, July 12, 2010.
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Open Minded Torah: November 2010
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Sunday, November 28, 2010. Christoper Marlowe's 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Lover'. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. When Thomas Browne in his idiosyncratic and bizarre Religio Medici. Asks that burning and old age philosophical question, 'how many eyes does a snail have? He does not heed the advice of what a philosophical contemporary Francis Bacon might suggest, 'Get a microscope and look! But what would we do? Are we closer to Browne or Bacon? A student stated the obvious: 'what would we do?
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Open Minded Torah: Judaism and the Art of Conversation
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Judaism and the Art of Conversation. The phrase itself - a slogan for some and a signal-danger for others - has become a way of taking a stand, but in the process ending a conversation on what may be the. Most critical issue facing contemporary Jews. I can already see eyes rolling, and hear the accompanying 'he's an academic, he would say so! But I'm not just talking about syllabi for high school students or whether a 15 year old should read Catcher in the Rye. Answers: 'the...
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Open Minded Torah: Open Minded Torah 2.0
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Monday, January 24, 2011. Open Minded Torah 2.0. Blogspot was very good to me, but sometimes you have to move on. Which is to announce the new Open Minded Torah site: www.openmindedtorah.com. Look there for the latest on my new book, upcoming book tours, and my inaugural blog post: soon! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Open Minded Torah on the Road. North East Tour: October 2-12, some dates still available. Become a Fan on Facebook. View my complete profile. Open Minded Torah 2.0. Just call me Chaviva.
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Open Minded Torah: Open Minded Torah: Unplugged
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Monday, January 3, 2011. Open Minded Torah: Unplugged. Soon to be in a theatre near you; in the meantime, click here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Open Minded Torah on the Road. North East Tour: October 2-12, some dates still available. Become a Fan on Facebook. View my complete profile. Open Minded Torah 2.0. OMT Talks About Inspiration. Open Minded Torah: Unplugged. Just call me Chaviva. In the land of Monkeys. A Mother in Israel.
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Open Minded Torah: March 2010
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Monday, March 29, 2010. Afikoman as Metaphysical Conceit: Paradox of Pesach. You tell the wise child when she asks about the laws of the holiday - we don't have dessert,. Ain maftirin, afikoman. We don't have an. After the meal. No dessert! Yet, the sages use the Greek term -. For what we do eat at the end of the meal. So what does it mean that we don't have dessert - '. When in fact we do eat the. Enjoy the present moment. But the sages say, no. No after-party tonite, sorry. Have the taste of the. Bring...
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Open Minded Torah: October 2010
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Sunday, October 10, 2010. Stanley Fish Meets His Match - well, maybe not. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Open Minded Torah on the Road. North East Tour: October 2-12, some dates still available. Become a Fan on Facebook. View my complete profile. Stanley Fish Meets His Match - well, maybe not. Just call me Chaviva. In the land of Monkeys. A Mother in Israel.
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Open Minded Torah: January 2010
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Thursday, January 21, 2010. Oedipus in a Kippa. At the beginning of Sophocles’ tragedy. A chorus of elder priests surrounds the oracle at. They mourn the terrible plagues that have befallen their city,. Lamenting that the gods have abandoned them. Oedipus, who had already saved the city once, and is lauded by the elders as ‘chief of men’ appears, commanding the devout priests: ‘don’t pray to the gods; pray to me. I will grant your prayers! Imagine an Israeli production of. In the end, they are vindicated...
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Open Minded Torah: 'This is Israel!': Service Economy in the Jewish State
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010. Service Economy in the Jewish State. I was debating about sharing my complaints with the driver of the bus which I did finally find (which left a half hour late anyway), but after discussions with one of the other confused passengers, we found ourselves uttering, like I do too often: 'this is Israel! Right This is Israel. So there's no point mentioning that in a city like London or New York ( 'achi, this is not London or New York; this is Israel'. December 23, 2010 at 7:35 PM.