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Purposes and Purpose: Ecclesiastes and Babel

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.

Posted byvspatzOctober 10, 2021October 10, 2021Posted inblog, Torah 5782Tags:Breishit, Gerry Serotta, Judy Klitsner, Kohelet, Rashi, Sanhedrin 109a, war against GodLeave a comment on Purposes and Purpose: Ecclesiastes and Babel

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?

Posted byvspatzSeptember 26, 2021September 26, 2021Posted inTorah 5782Tags:Breishit, Bruce Springsteen, Judy Collins, Kohelet, Margaret Moers Wenig, Pete Seeger, Turn Turn TurnLeave a comment on Every Purpose, Everywhere, All Day, All Genders

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?

Posted byvspatzOctober 12, 2020Posted inblog, podcastTags:Breishit, Cain and Abel, DC Police Reform Commission, Deon KayLeave a comment on A Brother’s Bloods: Cain, Deon Kay, and the Sanhedrin
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