Day: August 28, 2020
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Shabbat shalom
Learning is not the only way to God. One can also approach God through a life of fervor and exaltation experienced for the sake of heaven; through prayer and joy that transcend everyday existence and transform human suffering by imbuing all of life with hope, purpose, sanctity, thereby raising earth to heaven, restoring the unity […]
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Reflecting on James 3 13-18 & 5 7-12
We are studying James 3:13-18 and James 5:7-12 for Sunday, August 30. This is a meditation on the signs of genuine wisdom, and an exhortation to patient endurance. [Some notes on the text are here.] Here are some questions we might want to ask of the text, and ourselves: Verse 13 mentions “the gentleness born […]
Matters of Interpretation 