Tag Archives: Maimonides

land of milk and bunny

The rupture the internet meme was too hot for the “nerfies” in polyester yarn slippers at Madame Pickwick so the erstwhile Kardashian’s butt was still covered but re-branded as a Studio Backstage pub for the Montreal creative bar. “The society … Continue reading

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soul people: complex essence for the perplexed

If we go back to the Middle Ages, we enter a realm when reason was put into service of the miraculous, and science, as such, was half fantasy. There was little theorizing. Hieronymous Bosch’s Hell was painted in specific, minute … Continue reading

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dream on: brisky business

When we look at a dream, it can become our own, and our own interpretation of it can become a legitimate one… Like so many artists of extreme individuality, William Blake must be accepted without question or completely rejected. His … Continue reading

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spinoza: two against nature

Alfred Rosenberg on the couch. The Spinoza Problem by Irvin Yalom opens up the old debate as to how  can one reconcile reason and revelation given that both are imbued with some unsatisfactory elements. Maimonides made a valiant stab to … Continue reading

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“what’s new?”

“What’s New?” we ask each other ritually, and there is generally a ready answer at hand. Journalism, with its vested interest in change, has become enormously more pervasive and influential, first from television, and then the internet, ans perhaps this … Continue reading

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today’s menu

“Following the Equator”. It was a book, a travelogue by Mark twain at the turn of the century that by today’s standards is pretty mediocre but it contained one jewel of an idea that almost redeemed it:  That is, that … Continue reading

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In the jaws of the crocodile

People are the product of history. The way nations see, dress, think and formulate reality are much based on the parameters that over time, form a wall of convention, the box to which the comfort zone of convenience installs and … Continue reading

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ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot

There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading

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a thousand tears ago: no year 1K crisis

A thousand years ago, our forebears were said to have lived in a “Dark Age.” They themselves did not think it was dark, and they were only half wrong… All those years ago. Some say that a new Dark Age … Continue reading

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where’s that fire?

Going back over a thousand years ago, no less a figure than Maimonides remarked on the Jewish tendency to denial, a characteristic, he asserted that would only hasten their destruction. Although the context for Maimonides consternation was based on his … Continue reading

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