THERE IS MUCH VALUE IN friendships – even more so in those that are decades long. In 1986, I began working at the Northern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire’s fencing booth. Dubbed the privateer ship “Cardiff Rose” (after the Roger McGuinn…
Tag: It.
… can’t really be named, only experienced.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
— Bumpersticker seen this afternoon (2505.21)
Hyphenated Theology
TO ME, GOD IS NOT a Being to be worshipped – but a Presence to be experienced. (YMMV.)
Where Are You?
(Sermon for Parashat Vayikra [Leviticus 1:1-5:26], 4/5/25.) THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION, LIKE the entire book of Leviticus it’s taken from, asks: “How do we get close to G?d – and survive?” Leviticus’ answer is excruciatingly detailed – so much so…
We’re All Americans, Dammit
I’VE SAID THIS BEFORE, BUT it’s more important now than ever: “I pledge allegiance to the Constitution Of the United States of America And to the ideal on which it stands: One nation of individuals Indivisibly intertwined With liberty, justice,…
Hillel, Adapted
Q: “CAN YOU TEACH ME THE whole Torah in a dozen words or less?” A: “‘Don’t be a jerk.’ The rest is details; now go experience them.”
Silence is the language of God. Everything else is a poor translation.”
— Rumi
Minute Mitzvah: ALL ONE ALL ONE OK OK!!!
Today’s Task: Know that “God” is One. My dead psychic twin Sputnik, who rediscovered his natal Christian faith around the same time I came back to Judaism, was fond of saying, “Monotheism is not for wimps.” By that he meant…
365 Names of God: “The One Who Spoke and the World Came Into Being”
THE ONE WHO SPOKE AND THE WORLD CAME INTO BEING expresses a pretty profound metaphor, at least to those students of the Torah unbothered by anthropomorphism. Think about the many possible ways to spin a creation myth: divine entities dreaming…
LAUGH. SEE?”
— J.R. “Bob” Dobbs
Pocket Theology
BEFORE WE BEGIN, LET’S HAVE an agreed-upon definition or two (c. OED, mostly): mystic 1. one who believes that union with or absorption into the Deity or the Absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may…
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
– Philip K. Dick