Sublime Zettels January 2025
You will watch your parents die and be buried. You will watch your newborn child emerge in a messy circus of heaving grunts and high-pitched wailing. You will watch your dreams and projects dashed, only to wake the next day and greet the fruits of your failure anew and cobble a life out of them all the same. You will punctuate the cavalcade of
... See moreGod’s recognition that it is not good to be alone leads to his creation of an ezer k’nedo (an antagonistic helper) for the human being, Adam. ... The reason it’s the woman who gets emphasized is that we might presume her only to be an ezer, only a helper, only a yay-sayer. But the k’negdo part means that she helps by opposing, by being different;... See more
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Belief in G-d
We are all equal in the eyes of God. Equal but not the same.
Equal but different
— Dennis Prager
Unlike Christianity and Islam, which are religions only, Judaism is both a religion and a people. Jewish beliefs do not determine who is a Jew.
The most important leap of faith we humans must make is not just believing that God exists, but
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