Open-heart surgery is eXtreme medicine. It’s like extreme sports except you aren’t fit when you start. And you don’t soar…
Category: Philosophy
Rabbis, for Heaven's Sake
The question: At the Rabbis Without Borders meeting, we asked: What is a machloket l’shem shamayim – a dispute for the…
Belief
What does it mean to “believe” in God? or in an afterlife? Is it like agreeing with a statement? Where…
Learning Compassion
The Buddha’s insecure students sometimes asked him if his enlightenment was truly the result of years of inner work. After…
Occupy Shabbat
“Occupy Shabbat” is an activity organized by Noam Dolgin. The activity itself is very simple. A group meets in the…
Inner Time
Dvar Torah for Parshat Lech-Lecha Link to it here.
Dreams of the Future
Last week I dreamed that a group of people entered my home on Sophia Street. They filed in, one by…
New(t) Inspiration
I’ve been worried about the newt. My feeding strategy has not appealed to him. With a fork, I scoop up…
Heart of Compassion
Dvar Torah (Sermon) from Rosh Hashanah 5772 (2011) Link to it here.