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Shabbat Noah: The End of the World As We Know It (and I feel fine?)

אלה תולדות נח [נח איש צדיק תמים היה בדורותיו] א”ר יוחנן בדורותיו ולא בדורות אחרים וריש לקיש אמר בדורותיו כ”ש בדורות אחרים  With regard to the verse: These are the generations of Noah; Noah was a righteous man, and wholehearted in his generations (Genesis 6:9),  Rabbi Yoḥanan says: Relative to the other people of hisContinue reading “Shabbat Noah: The End of the World As We Know It (and I feel fine?)”

Shabbat Bereshit: Beginning Again, With You

The Thing Is To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gillsContinue reading “Shabbat Bereshit: Beginning Again, With You”