you decide

All week long I’ve been planning to write about something else—Adam and the fiftieth. But now I want to talk about paradox. Paradox—two seemingly opposite, apparently mutually exclusive phenomena being true simultaneously. Or something like that. For a while now, one of my takes on the story of Adam and Eve is that in the [...]

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free will freak

I’ve been thinking about free will lately. I just came back from an event called Pesach in the Desert. A wonderful time spent with about sixty like-minded people in the spare, hot wilderness far to the east of here. I offered a class on one of my favorite stories from the Talmud, about Eliezer be [...]

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pesach poem

Hi folks; As many of you know, the time leading up to Passover (Pesach) can be just about the busiest time of year. There are many preparations to make. In light of this, the posting this week is brief. It’s a poem I wrote a few days ago. What it lacks in rhythm and meter, [...]

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