Look at us Standing at Sinai Gathered together at the foot of a mountain to meet God. Seriously? It’s too much to take in Too big to describe Like this mountain. Maybe it’s just a useful metaphor: A mountain of the needy and the suffering that we ignore every day? Or a mountain of guilt, […]
(inspired by Arthur Green, SEEK MY FACE) Maybe God is a gerund, a verb ending in ‘ing‘, a verb that has become a noun. Always doing, always being. And Being. Never starting, never ending. But real and solid, a thing made of action. Selah: Pause and think. I want always to be in the […]
Exod 33:12-34:26 This is one of those holiday Shabbats when a special Torah portion is read. In ancient times, Succot was THE holiday, of all the festivals this was the most important one. And if that is so, then one must wonder why, out of the entire chumash, this passage was chosen. It’s from Exodus, after Moses […]