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.
Tag Archives: Kohelet
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?
What God Has Twisted: Sukkot Addendum
“Who can straighten what God has twisted?” The Book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), which many communities read during the Shabbat of Sukkot or at other points during the festival, tells us: Consider God’s doing! Who can straighten what [God] has twisted? So in a time of good fortune enjoy the good fortune; and in a timeContinue reading “What God Has Twisted: Sukkot Addendum”
Rereading Torah Towards Liberation 