Sunday, August 11, 2013

What I Believe

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What I Believe God holds all in His hands, upholding, enabling every moment. We truly receive all from God's hands. Like Mil...
Sunday, April 08, 2012

From "Hurrah for Euphony"

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"Conjured from eye, ear, and intellect, words are best when they push and jostle, sharpen wit, condense wisdom." "The task is...
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Sunday, September 04, 2011

Rav Rosensweig, Yevamos and me

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To be honest I was not excited when I realized that this year at YU they are studying Yevamos, which is the tractate on the topic of yibum, ...

History of the Torah She'be'al Peh (Oral Torah)

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Just finished this 7-part series History of the Torah She'be'al Peh by Rabbi Hershel Schachter. He did a great job in exploring the...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Great Hans Urs von Balthasar resource

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I believe I have seen this page before, but it has definitely improved. Lots of wonderful Hans Urs von Balthasar articles and resources. ...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Rav Kook on universalism

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Now one might receive the mistaken impression that the Torah endorses this attitude [that nations compete against one another] whereby we sh...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Rav Amital on the Fear of God

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Rav Amital: The basic level of the fear of God is a similar feeling. We nullify ourselves in the face of His great exaltedness as our Cr...

The Vibrancy of the Conversation

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I can't believe that it has been almost exactly ONE year since I have posted anything to this blog. Over the last year my explorati...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Thoughts from the road . . .

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My wife and I went to visit some friends in Geneva this weekend and while she drove (she is a much better driver than I), I wrote down these...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

A "rule" that I found

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A few years ago I was very interested in monastic rules (Carmelite, Benedictine, etc.). Today as I was moving a whole variety of texts onto ...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

Current explorations

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I have not posted anything for months . One reason may be that I have been very busy at my work ( probably working harder...
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Friends from the past

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My old classmates from grade school (1973) have found each other through Facebook. It has been fun to reconnect. Quite a group and perhaps s...
Friday, February 26, 2010

A wonderful phone call

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As anyone who has read this blog knows, I am big fan of www.yutorah.org – it has tens of thousands of shiurim/lectures online and downloada...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Disarming ourselves

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I read this the other day and loved it. It comes from a favorite book of mine: Testimony of Hope by Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thua...
Monday, September 21, 2009

The Centrality of Mitzvat Shofar even on Shabbat Rosh Hashanah

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Rav Michael Rosensweig's most recent shiur published on www.torahweb.org is Yom Teruah and Zikhron Teruah : The Centrality of Mitzvat S...
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Sunday, September 06, 2009

Teshuva as a response to 9/11

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As both the anniversary of 9/11 and the beginning of Rosh Hoshanah are approaching, I thought I would highlight a talk by Rav Rosensweig tha...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Excerpts from John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor, ' 28-34; 84-94

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Here are some excerpts from the first reading and a few of my reflections: 28. ... the essential elements of revelation in the Old and New T...
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Classes Begin: Yeshiva University & John Paul II Institute

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In some ways these two institutions of higher learning: Yeshiva University & John Paul II Institute couldn't be more different. An ...