This post looks at the contrast between “every purpose” and “common purpose” in Ecclesiastes and the Babel story and some related matters of language and poetry.
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Every Purpose, Everywhere, All Day, All Genders
Our brains tend to create a continuum of experience between birth and death, laughing and weeping. Why, then, are we stuck with the binary, with no spectrum, when it comes to male and female?
A Brother’s Bloods: Cain, Deon Kay, and the Sanhedrin
Abel’s blood(s) cry out from the ground, and that informs ancient Jewish ideas about acceptable procedures in capital cases. What are the implications for police killings?
Rereading Torah Towards Liberation 