Mark Moore
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Mark Moore
The forty-nine represents everything achievable through human striving—whether forty-nine days of Omer refinement, forty-nine years of civilizational development, or the accumulated merits that bring souls to Rosh Hashanah. But the fiftieth operates by pure gift. Yet the gift requires those ten days of integration.
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The Civilization That Learned to Receive
The forty-nine represents everything achievable through human striving—whether forty-nine days of Omer refinement, forty-nine years of civilizational development, or the accumulated merits that bring souls to Rosh Hashanah. But the fiftieth operates by pure gift. Yet the gift requires those ten days of integration.
What happens to a soul over ten days, a people over fifty years, a world over generations, follows the same pattern. The individual, the communal, the cosmic: each scale rehearses the same logic. Prepare with care. Receive what cannot be achieved.
”Words are the tools of דעת (knowledge), but silence is the realm of חכמה (wisdom).” — Abraham Joshua Heschel
For Yalom, instead of doing, searching, and acting on life as a problem to be solved, we find what we need in being, harmonizing, and unifying in an acceptance of life as a mystery to be lived.
Yalom on Approaching Meaning Marie Snyder 4.22.2025
The Swedish Lutheran theologian, Gustav Aulén, published a seminal work on the types of atonement theory in 1930 (Christus Victor). Though time and critical studies have suggested many subtler treatments of the question, no one has really improved on his insight. Especially valuable was his description of the “Classic View” of the atonement. This i
... See moreIn March 2019, heavy rains in California led to a brilliant carpet of orange poppies in Walker Canyon, part of a 500,000-acre habitat reserve in the Temescal Mountains southeast of Los Angeles. Run by a state conservation agency, the reserve was mainly a local attraction until a twenty-four-year-old Instagram and YouTube influencer with tens of tho
... See more[Rain Dance Anecdote]
so I know it's existential but there's some ego part of me that just goes nah you can't have that you know what I mean so I um what if it's co-create what if it's co-created oh no I'm I'm not you can't rationalize it I've got an irrational kind of um irrational response to it but I pushed through that I push through that I push
... See moreMichael Norton, who wrote The Ritual Effect. Apparently, every time his family has meatloaf, they put candles on it and sing, “Happy Meatloaf to You,” to the tune of the birthday song. They started it to get their daughter to eat meatloaf but it became a tradition.
Imagining, for Grown-ups: On Making Up Rituals Lei Wang 5
... See moreThe map you make ends up behaving like a mirror. It can only present an approximation of the living connections between contextless signifiers, cropped to your personal frame of reference.
The Lore Zone: How to Read the Internet Libby Marrs & Tiger Dingsun
[cf. Deleuze]
Nothing remained of the past except memories without proof.
The Last Dreams Naguib Mahfouz 5.8.2025