they love the food for thought that’s coked in their unkosher oven.
to God than words with people with whom he can talk and zoom.
no longer money changers, checking in as mental changers.
Inspired on 6/30/22 by a talk by Rabbi Daniel Bouskila, who began his brilliant weekly Zoomed discussion of a Shai Agnon story by recalling Rabbi David Weiss-Halivni on the day of the professorial rabbi’s burial in Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives. Rabbi Bouskila quoted Rabbi Weiss-Halivni:
Gershon Hepner is a poet who has written over 25,000 poems on subjects ranging from music to literature, politics to Torah. He grew up in England and moved to Los Angeles in 1976. Using his varied interests and experiences, he has authored dozens of papers in medical and academic journals, and authored “Legal Friction: Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel.” He can be reached at gershonhepner@gmail.com.