Heart and Soul
Electroencephalographs measure electrical activity in the brain but nothing more. Who can possibly know what might be happening in the soul of a living human being?
Category: Morality
A Malnourishment of Modesty
There is so little that any of us can truly know; yet so certain are so many of so much.
How I Spent My Shavuot
Entering the study-hall, some holy energy seems to seize me, and, even as my mind and body increasingly rebel against the deprivation of slumber, my soul jumps for joy.
Election Result
Jewish chosen-ness, from the Jewish perspective, entails no disparagement of others. It is not a license but a responsibility.
A Thought About Thinking
it’s only at a certain point of development that thinking – at least about consequences – really kicks in
Whatever Your Politics
Whatever your stance on the abortion debate, no decent human being can fail to be repulsed by the story: “Baby Trashed After Botched Abortion.” Apparently the doctor didn’t show up in time to abort...
Unbearable
“Look… This child awaits his turn. Watch their humiliation. They are corpses, Allah be praised…”
Hypocrisies, Imagined and Real
I hope my wife and kids don’t find out that I consider it kosher to force 16-year-old girls to work 20 hours a day.
In fact, I was shocked at myself for having said such a thing – or, at least, I would have been had I actually said it.
Real Money
The late senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois once famously said to Lyndon Johnson about the national debt: “A few billion here, a few billion there and before you know it, you’re talking real money…”...
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