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Category: Bible/Torah

Do justice, love goodness and walk humbly…

On: July 20, 2018July 21, 2018 By: Leslie Cook

I watched Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale over the last couple of weeks. Visually, it is beautiful. Emotionally, it is searing, sobering and thought-provoking. The book was written in 1985, and the Hulu series began in 2017. I hadn’t read the book or

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Animals in the Bible

On: December 12, 2017December 12, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

One of the things I have noticed and commented about as I have read the Torah story about animals is that they progressively lose stature in relation to human beings: “Gone are the days in the Garden when animals, as much as

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Hierarchies and the meaning of “in the image…”

On: November 1, 2017December 1, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Part of what I want to understand as I read the Torah is how it rationalizes hierarchical relationships when its creation accounts share such an extraordinarily inspirational non-hierarchical vision, a vision in which no creature kills another for food and all of

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A new practice for Yom Kippur

On: September 29, 2017October 16, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Jewish tradition teaches that G-d can only forgive transgressions bein Adam l’Makom, those transgressions we commit against G-d. G-d cannot forgive transgressions bein Adam l’havero, between us and our fellow human beings.  Therefore, before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, we apologize for ways in

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Two Models to Feed the World: IFS & Torah

On: August 26, 2017September 12, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

“Much have I learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from my students.” – Rav Hanina ( Talmud: Taanit, 7a) I finished teaching a class at McHenry County Community College this past week called “Conscious Choices: Thinking About Food.”

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Modesty

On: July 21, 2017July 21, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

I happened to see a short segment on Asian Muslim women creating fanciful hijabs. I started to think about Jewish modesty, which requires married women to cover their hair and all females to dress modestly — skirts well below the knees and

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There’s The Ideal…And Then There’s The Real

On: May 31, 2017May 31, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Sometimes when I study Torah these days I get a little lost in the details of animal sacrifice and numbering and valuing people and animals. My original purpose in this study was to  try to understand what the Torah says comprehensively, pervasively,

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Torah: Why I Don’t Like To Call It (Written) Law

On: May 23, 2017May 26, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) is most often translated “law.” Strong’s points out that the word “derives from yârâh (Strong’s #3384) meaning ‘to shoot out the hand as pointing, to show, indicate’, ‘to teach, instruct’, ‘to lay foundations’,

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A Goat For Azazel? Really?

On: May 21, 2017May 26, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

I’m teaching a short four session class on Bible. So far my focus has been on the first chapters of Genesis and the middle section of Leviticus, especially chapter 16, the Yom Kippur ritual. In our last week, we will examine the 10 Things

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Cooking, Pulling Weeds And Resisting

On: May 18, 2017June 1, 2018 By: Leslie Cook

I never thought I’d hear myself say this: Trump gave me a huge gift when he was elected. It’s hard to imagine myself saying that because my inspiration usually comes from very different kinds of sources. Yet perhaps it’s just the mind-

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Category: Animal Rights, Bible/Torah, Politics, Sustainability, Thoughts, Vegan, Vegetarian 3 Comments/
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