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דער קערפער פֿון השם"#Ziegler’s Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy is a 534-page book on a four-chapter #megillah. The disproportion is the point. Ziegler, a faculty member at #HerzogCollege and teacher at #MatanandMidreshetMoriah, spent more than two decades teaching #MegillatRuth in #bateimidrash before committing these #shiurim to print. What she has produced is not a work of academic #biblical criticism.
It is a work of #Torah, one that happens to deploy #literary tools in service of the sacred text’s deeper meaning. The methodology she calls “#literary-#theological,” a term she credits to #Rabbi #ShalomCarmy, fulfills something Rabbi #AharonLichtenstein called for in a 1962 lecture at #SternCollege: the application of close reading and literary analysis to #Tanach, not to evaluate the text but to hear it more clearly. “I have eschewed a pretense of academic detachment,” she writes...”
TinJarA New Faith
‘We are talking about energy s...
TinJarAn alternative to #oil #gas for #Norway is leasing #land for new #cities for #climate #refugees
An idea explored in "A New Faith"
https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#bookstodon #books #fiction #novel #hopepunk #solarpunk #mystery #thriller #detective #literary #book #reading #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #justice #humanrights #uplifting #solar #wind #batteries #EV #walk #bike #bus #train #fantasy
Jake's Flea Marketthe mouth on the horizon appears
the mouth on the horizon appearsto open wide as a yawn and full of fire
the highway appears to come
out of the mouth toward you
like a dawn long
and thin asphalt cigar
from behind the windshield of a car
the apparatus of an eye looks
up the highway into the blinding
brilliance in the mouth
sees the silhouette of you pull
its hind foot up off the asphalt
like it’d gained the weight
of a work boot sunk down
to the ankle in wet concrete
sees the silhouette set
it’s hind foot down on the asphalt
in front of it’s front foot
sees the silhouette turn thumb extended
the apparatus of the eye that sees you
transmits what it sees
into the wiring harness of a brain
the brain decides that you don’t appear
like an excuse it wants to hear
sends signals down arms into hands
the steering wheel’s turned slightly
and the car veers
into the farther lane and passes
you turn again toward the beginning
breath out of the mouth warms your face
the car appears to diminish
into the distance then melt
into the fire in the mouth
as the wide open mouth begins
to rise to float to drift
gradually up the sky
like a balloon filled with fire
#Dawn #DramaticPoetry #hitchHiking #Imagery #literary #literature #Poetry #SpokenWord #writing
"In the 1970s, in the wake of an emerging #secondwave #feminism, #women’s #magazines were expanding rapidly with a unique style. Their focus, however, tended to exclude #minorities. #Jewish women were seen as privileged “others”, not facing the same constraints as their #gentile peers. That’s why the #Winnipeg-born #SusanWeidmanSchneider founded #Lilith, a Jewish #feminist magazine, out of #NewYorkCity in 1976.
Lilith was radical in many ways, tackling taboo subjects like #abortion and #gayrights from a female Jewish perspective. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Lilith has persevered as a community of #literary, engaged and often mature #Jewishwomen, hosting salons and creating a space for Jewish women to express themselves freely. To reflect on its impact, #WeidmanSchneider joins #PhoebeMaltzBovy on this week’s episode of #TheJewishAngle."
After Dinner Conversation®
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