Day: January 15, 2021
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Shabbat shalom
The life of human beings is not passed in the sphere of transitive verbs alone. It does not exist in virtue of activities alone which have some thing for their object. Martin Buber. I and Thou. Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith. Scribner Classics, 2000 (1958). 20. From “The Tribe of Levi,” Marc Chagall, a public […]
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Reflecting on Mark 2 1-12
A group of friends dig through a roof to get a paralyzed man into Jesus’s presence, in Mark 2:1-12, the text we are studying for Sunday, January 17. [Some notes on the text are here.] Here are some questions we might want to consider or discuss in class: Verse 5, the narrator tells us that […]
Matters of Interpretation 