July 2012
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Through the initial physical challenge of the fast, the soul is agitated and its...
– —Ilyas al Kashani, on the purification of the fast (sawm) during Ramadan
(h/t Maryam Eskandari)
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Anonymous asked: Our Sunday's get started in bed with our eyes closed listening, conjuring and celebrating with "On Being" with Krista Tippett. This is our grounding for the week ahead. Last week we could not find it on our home station WBEZ, Chicago, and we have been terribly distressed. What happened? Where are you? Rogene and Larry Kirkegaard
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So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated...
– Jeanette Winterson, from In Defense of Poetry
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Many who were circumcised
And versed in Jewish lore.
Perhaps the Germans have...
– —Rabbi David Wolpe
This is the final stanza from the L.A.-based rabbi’s poem in the Washington Post in which he responds to Germany’s decision to ban circumcisions. Stinging words.
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