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Organic Torah | Mandela, Polemics and the Jews
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Mandela, Polemics and the Jews. December 30, 2013. Click here to read the post on The Many Stories of Passover. Sorry about any inconvenience. I’ve been thinking recently about how polemics can impoverish us. When we engage in polemics — taking two opposite positions, “poles,” and “polarizing” into our corners — each side becomes only a caricature of what they really are: we all become one dimensional. We are still very much doing it today. It seems to me that instead of the embarrassing scene of the Pri...
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Organic Torah | Challah and Halakhah
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July 29, 2014. There is no one set of principles or abstract deductions on what is Right or Truth. Rather, there are stories, examples and arguments all woven together. Any rabbi or practicing Jew who wants to decide a question of Jewish law needs to have a feel for the law and a feel for the community and the individual people involved. Then a decision can come out exactly right for that moment. Whether its baking Challah, building a rock wall, or trying to figure out what God’s will is for me in this m...
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Organic Torah | New Kevah/Organic Torah Class at Eitz Chayim in Cambridge
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New Kevah/Organic Torah Class at Eitz Chayim in Cambridge. March 18, 2015. To learn about Kevah visit their website at www.kevah.org. If you wish to participate in this course at a distance through audio recordings contact Rabbi Natan at natanm118@gmail.com. Two Ways of Thinking. Case Study in a New Paradigm for Rabbinic Training. A Distillation of Life. New Class starting in February. Slow Money Maine: Forum on Building a Healthy Local Food Economy. Everyone Counts. Every Action Makes a Difference.
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Organic Torah | The Many Stories of Passover
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The Many Stories of Passover. March 31, 2014. One of the simple but important sentences that we read on the Seder night is: Even if all of us were wise, discerning, venerated, and completely knowledgeable in the Torah, it is still a mitzvah for us to tell the story of the deliverance from Egypt. This sentence presumes a very simple question: If I already know the story what’s the point of telling it all over again? Like many myths, it has elements that are harsh and cruel: We often struggle over the unfa...
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Organic Torah | Ki Li Kol Ha’aretz: The Whole Earth Is Mine
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Ki Li Kol Ha’aretz: The Whole Earth Is Mine. March 18, 2015. Note: This article appeared as today’s Purim= Pesach. Article from The Shalom Center. Curated by David Eber and Arthur Waskow. Click here to read the article in full on The Shalom Center’s website. On Pesach we ask ourselves: What is the meaning of the Exodus? On this Sabbatical or Shmitta year, our perspective shifts to reveal that one answer is: our relationship with the earth. Is there a connection that is being hinted at? Everyone Counts...
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Organic Torah | Natan Margalit
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8220;Whenever Natan Margalit teaches at Elat Chayyim, I hear our guests praise Natan and his classes more than any other teacher. His teachings are deep, inspired, relevant and direct from the heart.”. Elat Chayyim Jewish Retreat Center. Natan Margalit was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, studied Anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, made. Response to Natan’s teaching. 8212; Marlene Booth, Founder, Kesher Community Hebrew School After School. 8212; Rabbi Rim Meirowitz, Temple Shir Tikvah, Winchest...
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Organic Torah | Introduction to Organic Torah
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Introduction to Organic Torah. March 30, 2014. Announcing a Free Series of Workshops:. Introduction to Organic Torah. Join us as Rabbi Natan leads these workshops on untangling the complexity of Jewish texts with insights from the study of complex systems. Learn how the literary structure of rabbinic text reflects natural structures and systems. These events are free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome! Location: Harvard Divinity School. Andover Hall, Room 119. Want to join the discussion? Ki Li ...
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Organic Torah | Rabbi Natan to Deliver 34th Annual Keenan Lecture at Spalding University
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Rabbi Natan to Deliver 34th Annual Keenan Lecture at Spalding University. March 18, 2015. Rabbi Natan will be in Louisville, Kentucky, on April 23,. Where he will deliver the 34. Annual Keenan Lecture at Spalding University. This year’s topic will be Judaism and the Environment. The title of his talk will be Organic Torah: Systems, Spirit and Sustainability. Click here for the Keenan Lecture website, including directions to Spalding University. Two Ways of Thinking. A Distillation of Life. The Pew Survey...
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Organic Torah | Hanukkah, the “Other” and Organic Torah
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Hanukkah, the “Other” and Organic Torah. December 18, 2014. We are witnessing a dawning of awareness in this country: many had thought that racism was behind us. Many considered themselves to be no longer racist because they and their friends didn’t explicitly use racist language any more, didn’t. I’m reminded of one of the most memorable passages from Toni Morrison’s classic novel. In which she talks about the jungle inside people:. Wishing you a joyous Festival of Lights חג אורים שמח! Slow Money Maine:...
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Organic Torah | A Poem for Rosh Hashanah
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A Poem for Rosh Hashanah. September 16, 2014. I thank You God for most this amazing. I thank You God for most this amazing. Day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees. And a blue true dream of sky; and for everything. Which is natural which is infinite which is yes. I who have died am alive again today,. And this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth. Day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay. Great happening illimitably earth). How should tasting touching hearing seeing. Whether we are lis...
