As I was putting my son to bed and massaging his back this evening he said to me:
“You know the nice thing about being a kid is that you can just let parents take care of things, like if you’re in a car at night and you’re worried about where you are you can just [...]

Here’s a very rough translation of a little song by Amir Lev. I know that I haven’t got the second line right in particular, and I’ve probably made other mistakes. I just do this sort of thing as a mind puzzle. No great message here. It’s a nice sad [...]

These are the things they did to build the original temple. The Rabbis figured if you don’t do these 39 things, you are pretty much not working, ergo, refraining from these 39 activities constitutes the essence of Shabbat rest. All the rest is details, and there are quite a few of them.
Defining negative [...]

Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Samples | Magazine.

James Donovan: A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Big Horn – The Last Great Battle of the American West – 2008
I read this mostly because I’m researching the South Dakota of my great-grandparents Jacob K. Smith and Emma Kate (Day) Smith, who immigrated to Mitchell, in the Dakota Territories, in about 1880, just four [...]

Four men entered paradise [pardes] — Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher [that is, Elisha], and Akiba.
Ben Azzai looked and died;
Ben Zoma looked and went mad;
Acher destroyed the roots;
Akiba entered in peace and departed in peace.
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See Abraham Joshua Heschel…

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.
For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at the tree of life, and when he does, the whole [...]