Gevurah: Aristotle on Judgment

Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice of the mean between two extremes, i.e., a mean relative to…

Chesed: Plato on Love

Do you know the wise woman Diotima, a fictional character in Plato’s dialogue Symposium? Six learned, drunken men discuss their…

Passover, Easter, Spring: seasons of hope for Jews, Christians, and everyone in our planet’s northern hemisphere. This might be just…

Yesterday at Or Shalom Synagogue in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, we harvested horseradish from our synagogue garden. We are an…

I miss Donna’s kitchen, so far away in North Carolina. Any afternoon or evening, any time, with or without kids,…

My mother’s mother died long before I was born, so I never met my grandmother. She seems to have been…

After God passes the Divine goodness by Moses, Moses dons a veil. From that day on, he unveils his face…

For forty-eight minutes, Father O’ neal was dead. As he crossed over into the next realm, he saw God. Forty-eight…

News seems to be bad everywhere. Copenhagen, Egypt, France, the West Bank, North Carolina, even Canada. Each day, the voice…