Day: September 6, 2021
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Ritual and Ritual Sensibility
Ritual has human and humane purposes. Ritual needn’t serve nefarious purposes, although it can. It does not always, invariably and inevitably, prop up the power of oppressive overlords and normalize the unjust stratification of privilege. Ritual can reflect any idealized social order, a beautiful one as well as a vicious one. Ritual can symbolically represent […]
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Celebrating Labor Day!
You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of your towns. You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to THE HOLY ONE against you, […]
Matters of Interpretation 