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meaning
What is art good for?
Gina Nahai
December 3, 2008
I wonder every time I go into and out of the office, what art is for? To capture the truth of a person or a thing? To tell that truth in unexpected ways to people who expect it least?
A ‘Clue’ about creation
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater
October 23, 2008
Parshat Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8) Why did God create the world? Why are we here in this life?
‘Prayer isn’t boring — you are’
Jewish Journal
September 4, 2008
In a way, Jewish prayer is like another pillar of observant Jewish life: Shabbat. Just as tefilah involves letting one\’s creativity conquer one\’s boredom, Shabbat is about finding creative enjoyment on a day when cell-phones, iPods and DVD players are treated as hardly more useful than paperweights.
Shalom Auslander is my failure
Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg
November 9, 2007
This doesn\’t answer my questions. It doesn\’t staunch my tears. I don\’t sleep better. I don\’t justify terrible things when they happen to others, and I don\’t know why they don\’t happen to me. But I know that just as surely as there is inexplicable evil in the world, there is inexplicable good, as well. It\’s something to put on the other side of the scale, something to attribute to a good God.
In Quest for Meaning
Judea Pearl
September 21, 2007
Man is a meaning-seeking animal. Hardly a second goes by in which our mind does not stop its routine activities to ponder the meaning of the input it receives from our senses or from its own activities.
Can happiness be taught?
Amy Klein
September 14, 2007
Anyway, what does it mean to be happy? Does it mean to experience constant pleasure? Bouts of joy? Moments of ecstasy? Does it mean to suffer no pain? Never be sad? Never struggle with challenges? Whatever it is, how does one get happy? It\’s a High Holy Days challenge if ever there were one, since if we all lived happier lives, wouldn\’t the world be a better place?
Not By Bread Alone
Rabbi Karen Deitsch
August 3, 2007
The milchama with lechem stops when we can eat it proportionately and spiritually. When we enjoy our fill — rather than demonizing, avoiding or sinfully binging on it — we are redeemed. By the mouth of God, bread was created, as was light, as were we, in His image. Our purest source of nourishment is Divine love, manifest in our capacity to lift up the vital force in all foods through our own utterances of gratitude.
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