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Category: Animals
Terror in Afula
A numinous dream, last Wednesday: I am on Kibbutz Ein Dor, near the city of Afula in Northern Israel, visiting…
Unicorn
For perhaps the first time, I received a message in a dream. A direct message in words, that is, not…
Kingdom Without a King
First thing in the morning, I like to take a 3-block walk to the Grind Café and Gallery on Main…
World Cat Day
Traditional Jewish thought sees the whole world as a laboratory for learning. On the one hand, everything has value in…
Kitten Epistemology
Post-positivism. A theory of knowledge, underlying a research methodology. And I’ve been assigned to research it. So I slog through…
Finding Spiritual Meaning
A week filled with senseless public events is a good week to look for meaning. Rabbi Rachel Barenblat found meaning…
Hearing into Speech
Yesterday, I sat out on Sophia Street and listened. I heard: A woman talking loudly on her cell phone. A…
Symbols, Sheep & Seder Plate
As a graduate student in philosophy, I read torturously turgid texts in the “structuralist” philosophical tradition about the difference between…