08 Jan 2016

“It is not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreu In his book Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks writes about the way in which the

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01 Jan 2016

Shemot 5776 – Thought Experiments To view the printer friendly version click here. “The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.” — Isaiah Berlin The

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13 Mar 2015

“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe While we review the manufacture of the Mishkan this week, we also read of a nation that contributed wholeheartedly,

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06 Mar 2015

“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being…” — John Coltrane We are barely a fortnight out of our Egyptian bondage

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20 Feb 2015

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. — Albert Einstein The reading gets technical this week as we delve into the architecture

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13 Feb 2015

In our discussions on the Book of Shemot thus far, we have examined the various elements of freedom that are expressed through its stories and commandments. Here, in Perashat Mishpatim,

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06 Feb 2015

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”  — Albert Einstein Perashat Yitro is the parasha that tells of the giving

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30 Jan 2015

Four centuries had passed since Abraham had made a covenant with G-d and had been promised that, although his offspring were destined to become slaves in a strange land, they

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23 Jan 2015

“All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren’t noticing, which makes you see something that isn’t even visible” — Leo Strauss “Be

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16 Jan 2015

“It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to

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