Logic and Morality
In a world that prizes kindness, we are lost without objective right and wrong.
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The Sacrifice of Yom Kippur (opens the original)
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Yom Kippur is the most solemn day of the Jewish calendar. It is the day when we beseech G-d for Atonement. A mother of small children may opt out of the awe-inspiring traditional rituals in the synagogue, stirring melodies, palpable feelings of repentance and voices crying out in unison for forgiveness. She may opt out of participating in the congregation invoking the words and phrases that Moses himself used to pray to G-d for the salvation of the Jewish people, and Unesaneh Tokef1, the pleas a
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (opens the original)
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Lately, I have been reading some shorter books, that I can actually finish, enjoying it more than I can explain. My husband read this book, more than once, years ago. I don’t know why I hadn’t read it yet. Our paperback edition belonged to my husband’s grandfather, who passed away seventeen years ago. His name and address are on a label in in the inside cover. Reading it now against the backdrop of my other interests gave it extra texture and placed it in more vivid historical context. The book
The Fugu Plan. (opens the original)
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The Fugu Plan is a book written by Rabbi Marvin Tokayer in 1979. (Paddington Press)(The Lubavitcher Rebbe convinced Rabbi Tokayer and his then fiancée to go to serve as a rabbi in Japan.1)In 1968, Rabbi Tokayer moved with his family to Tokyo to become the Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Japan.Mary Swartz was a member of the Tokyo Jewish community and a professional writer. She returned to America at the same time as Rabbi Tokayer and they collaborated on the book. The book revolves around the s
Hot Dog Peels (opens the original)
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Thursday night was my grandfather’s yahrzeit, the anniversary of his death. My grandfather died before I was born, when my mother was still young enough to need him. He was born in 1889 in White Russia and he came to America before the first World War. He died in the early 1960’s. I was born in the late 1970’s. We had a meal to commemorate the anniversary because it is meaningful to my mother. Kaddish is the prayer that we say after the death of a loved one. My uncle, who is, thank G-d, over 90,
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