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Eternal Life

Meals are life Feeding on Life
On: August 7, 2018August 12, 2018 By: Leslie Cook

Five years ago when I started my blog, I wrote: “As we journey through our lives, we both eat and nourish, destroy and enrich.  The great gift we have as human beings is that we can make conscious decisions about the balance

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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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Shabbat: Stop. Drop the Map and Look Around.

On: June 7, 2018June 7, 2018 By: Leslie Cook

I’m reading a wonderful book recommended by a friend for soul restoration in these times, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein. After I picked up the book, I realized he is also the author of Sacred

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Ethics in a Machine

On: January 21, 2018 By: Leslie Cook

I’ve been taking another religion class online through Harvard recently (an excellent — and free — program, btw). In addition to an NPR segment I heard the other day, this class caused me to think more about the abortion issue. I wondered

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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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Potential payback and a conundrum

On: November 10, 2017November 13, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

I watched a video this morning that amplified my growing understanding of how much that we do is shaped by our evolutionary history. That, in turn, is shaped by the drive to survive: http://www.ynharari.com/role-scientists-debate-animal-welfare/ Evolution is a topic that first interested me tangentially,

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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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Vegetating on snakes, black holes and food

On: September 28, 2017October 16, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

In “A Starting Thought” for this blog, I said: “This thought occurs to me about meals: as we gather raw ingredients, prepare food and eat, we embrace the central moral paradox of human existence, that it requires taking life to sustain life.  How

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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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Sapiens means “wise,” but are we?

On: July 30, 2017August 21, 2017 By: Leslie Cook

This morning, as so often happens, I was alerted by @JewishVeg, to an excellent book by Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  The book is Sapiens:  A Brief History

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