Content on Holidays (Page 2)
What Is Awe?
In life, Yirah as Fear and Yirah as Wonder might feel like they are separate things. But they are, in fact, interconnected in the container that is Awe.
Sukkot, Water, and Oneness
Observing the rains and the water cycle led our ancestors to a new idea – that there was a unity to every form of water and every facet of the cycle.
Glimmers
Glimmers are the opposite of triggers. A glimmer is a micro-event that quickly brings us to wholeness and tranquility, by suddenly cuing up a memory of connection or awe.
Awe Is Our Way Out of Despair
How do we rediscover what we already know, that the world is awesome and full of wonder and that all of humanity shares in it together?
Ask the Rabb-AI
If our intelligence is the only characteristic that makes us human, it won’t be long now before the machines can beat us at that game. But human beings are more than just intelligence.
What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Humanity
Unlike the angels, who are programmed to be unerring, we can avail ourselves of the positive opportunity for change and growth.
What is Said and What is Heard
While we certainly smell and hear things we may not want, if we willfully direct our attention, hearing is something we control.
What Is a Human? Creation, Science and Humanity
We humans have to verbalize science to communicate, and we have to use words that have intellectual and emotional resonances.
Creation and Restoration Ecology
The new Jewish environmental Tikkun Olam requires us to abandon the idea that we always know what is best for the natural world.
Meep Morp
Today, on the birthday of the world, when we sing the prayer “hayom harat olam,” which can be translated as “today is pregnant with eternity,” is a day when we begin again, and all possibility is open.
Why Are We Here? Free Will and the Purpose of Life
Rosh Hashanah reminds us that we are not human beings, but human becomings.
Rosh Hashanah and the Sound of the Shofar
Going forward in time, Rosh Hashanah retains its power to re-create humanity every year.