It's been a minute since I've written here. I've been consumed with a different project, directing a play. As such, I haven't managed to complete the post I started in June, which was about a ritual service I held in May. In
According to Sufism and Surrealism, the error of reason and logic lies in the fact that they concentrate on trivial things and claim that they have the answer to everything. Reason and logic treat existence as a problem that must have a solution, as the answer is deduced rationally and
I would like to start by quoting at length from David Graeber's book on debt. On the one hand, (capitalism’s) exponents do often feel obliged to present it as eternal, because they insist that is it is the only possible viable economic system: one that, as they
And Rabbi Ḥanina said: Everything is in the hands of Heaven, except for fear of Heaven. Man has free will to serve G-d or not, as it is stated: “And now Israel, what does the Lord your G-d ask of you other than to fear the Lord your
welcome! I started this blog because I have been trying to think through a series of related questions. namely: what is the relationship between jewish ethics and climate justice? can we add to the jewish left's ethical vocabulary a new set of terms that move beyond our habitual