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The Case for a Tech Shabbat
How can a “Technology Shabbat” – a day away from screens – be informed by Judaism?
No, You Don’t Want to Live Forever.
While we may say we want to live “forever,” we simply don’t emotionally or intellectually understand the size of ideas like “infinity” or “eternity.”
Time as an Enigma and as a Source of Meaning
How have thinkers from Bergson and Einstein to Heschel reconciled that sensation of the flow of consciousness with the frozen spacetime picture?
Thinking Ecologically – 10,000 Years Down the Road
How might thinking in a “Godly time-frame” help us take more urgent action about issues affecting us right now?
Time’s Arrows, Time’s Cycles
Perhaps we need a Yom Kippur for humanity, so we can then, acting as one, resolve to do better and protect our future.
Kabbalat Shabbat: When Tomorrow Comes
When time proves to be dizzyingly complex, we can find firm footing in the grounded truth and quiet expanse of Shabbat.
Maariv Aravim: Bringing Awareness to Change
This prayer recited as day turns to night helps to acknowledge moments of transition we often miss.
Baseball, Passover and Rebirth
In the spring, on Passover and on Opening Day, everything feels possible.
If Humans Move Off-Planet, Will Judaism Come Along?
How would future Jews, living off-planet, live Jewishly?
Cosmic Consolation: Wrinkles in Time
Ritual telescopes time and place, bringing together past, present and future, sacred space and wherever we happen to be.
The “End of the World” Has Happened Before
If this time in history is in fact the end of the world, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Is This The Beginning or The End?
It is hard to be handed a 508 million year old fossil from the Burgess Shale and not realize that our problems and ideas are fairly small and short-lived.