Day: August 21, 2020
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Shabbat shalom
Rabbi Yosei ben Kisma said: Once I was on a journey and I encountered a man. We greeted one another. Then he said to me: ‘Rabbi, where are you from?’ I replied to him: ‘I come from a great city of sages and scribes.’ He then said: ‘Rabbi, if you are willing to dwell in […]
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Reflecting on James 3 1-12
We are studying James 3:1-12 for Sunday, August 23 – we might call it a text on speech, or perhaps self-expression, probably not “communication,” although we could think about that. Also, a text we studied just a couple of years ago. [Some notes on the text are here, and also here.] We may find the […]
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Conditions for Communication
If you speak to people in words they don’t understand, how will they know what you are saying? You might as well be talking into empty space. There are many different languages in the world, and every language has meaning. But if I don’t understand a language, I will be a foreigner to someone who […]
Matters of Interpretation 