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Many lives are connected by invisible threads
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (937+ words) By Betzy Lynch in La Jolla, California There is a beautiful Hasidic teaching attributed to the Baal Shem Tov about a leaf falling from a tree. His students watched as the wind lifted the leaf and carried it from place…...
Teshuvah is one skill that separates humans from animals – San Diego Jewish World
1+ week, 1+ day ago (701+ words) By Cailin Acosta in San Diego With Rosh Hashanah approaching, Brandon Fisher’s “The Four Elements of Teshuvah” series at Beth Jacob Congregation began with a deceptively simple question: What does it mean to be human? To explore that question, Fisher…...
Jewish biography: Edmund Husserl, founder of Phenomenology
3+ week, 5+ day ago (377+ words) By Alex Gordon in Haifa, Israel Husserl’s first publications were dedicated to the problems of the foundations of mathematics (Philosophy of Arithmetic, 1891) and logic (Logical Investigations I, 1900; II, 1901). Logical Investigations became the first book of the new philosophical movement founded…...
JCC prompts the spreading of Jewish values in a process known as ‘zechut’
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (432+ words) By Betzy Lynch in La Jolla, California We often hear that technology has changed everything. It has connected us across continents, placed the world’s knowledge in our pockets, and given each of us the ability to reach millions with a…...
‘Creation:’ The story of beginnings by Jonathan Grossman
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (614+ words) San Diego Jewish World...
Parsha Balak: A good eye among evil ones
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (347+ words) By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel in Chula Vista, California Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev was legendary for always finding the good in others. One day, as he passed two thieves discussing their hidden stolen goods, he paused and declared…...
Judaism has a ‘to do’ list
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (675+ words) By Betzy Lynch in La Jolla This week at our Annual Membership Meeting, I had the opportunity to reflect on a phrase we often use to describe the Lawrence Family JCC: that we are a community built on Jewish values....
Parsha Shelach: ‘The link is what you think’
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (786+ words) By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D., in El Cajon, California At first glance, the cause appears straightforward. The spies returned from their mission with a frightening report about the inhabitants of Canaan. They described powerful nations, heavily fortified cities, and giants who…...
Jewish biography: Walter Benjamin, Marxist philosopher
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (791+ words) In his Theses on the Philosophy of History, Benjamin argued that many forms of knowledge are created on a bourgeois principle, and new formulations will be required to ensure proletarian, or class, truth....
An excellent book about Maimonides
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (429+ words) Maimonides composed his landmark philosophical work, The Guide for the Perplexed (Moreh Nevukhim in Hebrew), in Judeo-Arabic, written in Fustat (Old Cairo), Egypt. The treatise aimed to reconcile Jewish theology with Aristotelian philosophy and was addressed to his student, Rabbi…...