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- Talmud & The Casuistic Style (Shlomo Deshen & the Jews of Morocco)
- Holocaust Objects Are Small (Auschwitz at the Museum of Jewish Heritage)
- Tisha B’Av Lament (Reading Lamentations Rabbah)
- (Feeling Nostalgic) Nixon Resignation Speech
- (An Evil Report) A Land That Eats Its Own People (El Paso)
- The Priestly Blessing is Weird and Most Impressive (Hertz Pentateuch)
- Foucault and Transcendence: Haunted by Merleau-Ponty, Affect, and the Norm of Determinacy
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Monthly Archives: August 2019
Talmud & The Casuistic Style (Shlomo Deshen & the Jews of Morocco)
Working through 18th and 19th century halakhic sources (in this case, responsa) to get a bead on traditional Moroccan Jewish life prior to formal colonial period (prior to the establishment of the French protectorate in 1912), Shlomo Deshen said something … Continue reading
Holocaust Objects Are Small (Auschwitz at the Museum of Jewish Heritage)
Probably because it was close by and in New York City, I went to see “Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away,” the big exhibition now on view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and then I went again. There … Continue reading
Tisha B’Av Lament (Reading Lamentations Rabbah)
No political hot take, Lamentations Rabbah, the rabbinic commentary to the biblical book, is an ambiguous lament. This is more true of the main body of the text as opposed to the by-and-large more “orthodox” proems, focused as these are upon … Continue reading
(Feeling Nostalgic) Nixon Resignation Speech
PRESIDENT NIXON’S RESIGNATION SPEECH August 8, 1974 Good evening. This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shaped the history of this Nation. Each time I have … Continue reading
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(An Evil Report) A Land That Eats Its Own People (El Paso)
What kind of country is this? Something like from Numbers, chapter 13: 13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; … Continue reading
The Priestly Blessing is Weird and Most Impressive (Hertz Pentateuch)
As I continue to scroll through the Hertz Pentateuch in search of wayward things and other points of interest that tell us something about the HP and its time and place, I found this odd and unexpected thing. It’s his … Continue reading
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Foucault and Transcendence: Haunted by Merleau-Ponty, Affect, and the Norm of Determinacy
Originally posted on affecognitive:
“We are condemned to sense,” Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes in his Preface to Phenomenology of Perception (Landes translation, lxxxiv). The statement concludes a paragraph not on our bodily schema or our being toward the world (être à monde)…
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