- Zachary Braiterman is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. His specialization is modern Jewish thought and philosophical aesthetics. Facebook | Twitter | Academia.edu.
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Tag Archives: synagogue
(Zohar Says) Burn Incense To Forge Bonds with Ein Sof (Coronavirus)
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
(Liberal Judaism) Virtual Synagogue (Ansche Coronavirus)
Is the future of liberal Judaism the religion of inwardness: prayer, study, and mindfulness? Will be curious to hear how participation tanks or actually ticks up a little or a lot. Every Monday, Mar 23 – Jun 29 Monday Meditation … Continue reading
Virtual Shabbat (Liberal Judaism) (Coronavirus)
Not terribly enthusiastic, I’ve been not thinking enough about the phenomenon that will be live streaming Shabbat and other tefilot and the many aesthetic choices that will matter going forward. This one conveys something to do with the aesthetics of … Continue reading
(Temple Society of Concord) The Essence of Judaism is Architecture (Syracuse)
Undergraduates at Syracuse, and elsewhere I supposed, gravitate to Abraham Geiger and Reform Judaism when we pull up to the modern period in my introduction to Judaism. They like the individualistic voluntarism that they associate with liberalism and which they … Continue reading
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(Violent Surge of Excellent Writing) Habakkuk (Shavuot)
Locked up tight in the liturgical reading of Scripture in the synagogue as the haftarah on the second day of Shavuot, the holiday of revelation, the manifestation of God in the third chapter of Habbakuk signals total world disaster. In … Continue reading
(Sexual Ethics & The Holiness of Home) More Domestic Judaism (The Hertz Pentateuch)
Leviticus has been a pretty dry run in the Hertz Pentateuch. You can tell Hertz is just not into sacrifice and ritual by the more or less cursory exposition of what he takes to be the plain meaning (peshat) and … Continue reading
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(What Are These Things) Material Judaism & Priestly Religion (Sarah Kayla Jacobs)
Yesterday at Ansche Chesed, Sarah Kaya Jacobs gave these words about some of the most arcane material in the Hebrew Bible: matters relating to the Tabernacle cult and the vestments of the High Priest, in particular. The material appears in … Continue reading
American Jewish Future (Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl)
About universalism and particularism in the American synagogue, in-marriage and out-marriage, open space and closed space, technology and prayer, ethnicity and race, religion and affect, Israel and the world, you can read here this interview with Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl of … Continue reading
Genesis High Sublime English Bourgeois Dudgeon (Hertz Commentary)
At Ansche Chesed the old Hertz edition of Pentateuch & Haftorah sits off neglected in the row of pews to the right and to the left of the two large rows of pews occupying the center column of the sanctuary. There, … Continue reading
Don’t Sell Guns to Idolators (Maimonides)
Apropos to the gun-murders in Florida, holding gun makers liable, and repealing the Second Amendment, this week in shul Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky at Ansche Chesed worked off this little piece of halakhah from the Mishne Torah, the code of law … Continue reading
