Field of Healing
This weekend was my 50th high school reunion from ETHS (for those of you not in the area, Evanston Township High School). What an amazing time it was, and I want to write more about it later…but for now, I do want
Category: Thoughts
A Day for Decisions
Yesterday 49 people were killed in Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. I was heartsick when I heard the news. I cried this morning when I read the text messages of Eddie Justice to his mom before he was shot to death. I
A Remembrance
My Dad’s Yahrzeit is today. He died on the first day of Passover. The timing would have been richly symbolic and deeply meaningful to him, although he wasn’t Jewish but was, rather, a Methodist minister. That year was the first Seder I missed
Biblical Diet: Rx for Today
One of the things I love about teaching is that I always learn. My favorite session in the series I just taught was the one on Bible, and as happens almost every time I read the passages from the first three chapters
The Bible and Diet: Garden and Exile
We know the minimum essentials of an early diet in the Land of Israel from a brief notice in the Mishnah, M. Ketubot 5:8. The excerpt refers to what husbands separated from their wives must provide them: “He who maintains his wife
Patterns
Patterns, patterns everywhere. Is it because everything is structures and patterns…or is it because we can only comprehend reality by seeing it through patterns? I tend to think both are true. Once upon a time I was interested in chaos theory. I’m
How 3.5 drives us to find the best in ourselves
I spend a lot of time thinking about food. Interesting how this thought journey and my practical experience with food shapes my perspective about so many things in life. I’m considering my last post, Your Cooperation Required: Food Choices. Since writing helps
Your cooperation required: Food choices
Do you believe that intuition is a valuable tool for anticipating events? I do! And I think that sometimes intuition works beyond our personal lives. Before you start to think that I’m getting into fortune-telling or something, let me explain. Have you
Religion and spirituality: A false dichotomy
RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY, BODY & SOUL Religion and spirituality are frequently posed as different, mutually exclusive, even opposite modalities. This juxtaposition presents a false dichotomy based on a misunderstanding of how religions function. The juxtaposition rests on traditions that separate body and
Making conscious choices: behavior changes thought
I like the Bible. I think it has a lot to say. Today I watched a TedTalk from someone who started out thinking that the Bible is pretty irrelevant to our lives today but who opened himself to an opportunity, to follow