Monthly Archives: March 2020

(Coronavirus Tent) Mount Sinai St. Luke’s (Now Mount Sinai Morningside)

Posted on March 31, 2020 by zjb

(W. 113th between Morningside Drive and Amsterdam Ave.)  

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(Maimonides) The Difference Between Religious & Secular Is The Difference Between Heaven & Earth (Mishneh Torah)

Posted on March 31, 2020 by zjb

By way of a little contribution via Maimonides to academic arguments about the existence or non-existence of “religion” and “the secular.” The argument is that the two terms along with the judgment that posits either the difference or separation between … Continue reading →

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(Zohar Says) Burn Incense To Forge Bonds with Ein Sof (Coronavirus)

Posted on March 30, 2020 by zjb

Reading around I learned something, this about the Zohar on the power of the Tabernacle-Temple incense and, today, regularly reciting the verses concerning it to stay the plague and all other demonic forces. The Zohar picks up its cue from … Continue reading →

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(Maimonides Says) Cultivate the Middle Way (Hilkhot Deot) (Coronavirus)

Posted on March 29, 2020 by zjb

At the time of a global health pandemic, where better to turn than to the Great Eagle? Hilkhot Deot is a moral-medical compendium, famous for its elaboration upon the Aristotelean mean. But that’s not the half of it. The larger … Continue reading →

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“Viva Palermo e Santa Rosalia!”

Posted on March 28, 2020 by zjb

from Jason Farago at the NYT, Saint Epidemic, here at the NYT: He is dapper, beaming with the confidence of youth; he does not have the temperament for sheltering in place. It’s springtime, the year is 1624, and the 25-year-old … Continue reading →

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(Spinoza Says) Enlightenment Now (Shut the Synagogues) (Coronavirus)

Posted on March 27, 2020 by zjb

[[Dutch Portuguese Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo arguing for the lifting of the ban on Baruch Spinoza, December 6, 2015. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)]] About Enlightenment, post-secularism, and anti-liberal twaddle. Watching in real time and with some pleasure as the unfolding relationship between … Continue reading →

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(Foucault) Inside (Mishkan)

Posted on March 26, 2020 by zjb

Deep inside a chapter on the Beit Ha’Mikdash in the Bavli, I found this little gem on a Coronavirus detour through Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic. It speaks as well to the rabbinic gaze, to “powers of truth” in a … Continue reading →

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Post-Human Future = Space Ape

Posted on March 26, 2020 by zjb
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Jetsons (Coronavirus)

Posted on March 25, 2020 by zjb
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Pandemics Plagues and the Jewish Past (JQR)

Posted on March 25, 2020 by zjb

A neat little blogpost here from the Jewish Quarterly Review with this smart cover image. Includes timely historical reflections from Susan Einbinder, Joshua Teplitsky, Galit Hasan-Rokem, and Rhona Seidelman as well as a note of commitment from the JQR editorial … Continue reading →

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