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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The stranger, widow, orphan, and Levite—the displaced one—don’t require an Expected Value framework to warrant our care and responsibility. Rather, they reveal to us our own displaced nature and the impossibility of resolving it with anything other than accompaniment.
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