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Tag Archives: Pesach
Passover & the Bright Light of Realism
Chag Sameach, Happy Passover! Some thoughts: American optimism has had its appeal to Jews, especially after endless struggles in the old country – but helium in that balloon has the wheeze of exhaustion. We are now returned to realism, to … Continue reading
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Tagged attention, celebration, conflict, freedom, Freedom traditions, Judaism, Narrow places, Pesach, questioning, reality, religion
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Speak, Kafka: What the Maxwell House Haggadah didn’t share
The Jewish way of telling things is famously contentious and fractured; stories get started, then start again differently (doesn’t an Origin story imply a single origin? Think again!) The surface is not linear, stories grab you, then leave a key part … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Joshua Heschel, Haggadah, Kafka, Merleau-Ponty, Passover, Pesach, phenomenology, Seder, social justice
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Swing it, Miriam
I am imagining a little skit of two Jewish women kvetching at Passover. They talk about how nothing changes: the degradation in Egypt, known as Mizraim, is not the distant past, but same old, same old: “Mizraim, Mizraim? We’re always … Continue reading