Monthly Archives: June 2012

the zohar starts to get bored

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Josh

I am going to occasionally blog on the Zohar in conjunction with the Zohar Haburah I am running here in Boston. If you are interested in joining the group, feel free to reach out to me. Text available here and … Continue reading →

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An Educated Consumer is God’s Best Customer!

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Josh

Augustine bequeathed us a model of conversion as a deep, personal, introspective development. Obviously, this hardly describes many experiences of conversion. As Jews know, conversions can take place under duress. Conversions can be instances of dissimulation. People can convert for … Continue reading →

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Jewish Gothic Horror Stories from Lakewood

Posted on June 14, 2012 by mordy

Mordechai Shinefield has written about Jewish arts and culture for venues as varied as the Jewish Exponent, Spin Magazine, and the Village Voice. In 2005 he wrote about other strange Jewish urban legends for the Forward and wrote about Jewish themes … Continue reading →

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Hans Blumenberg: The Paradox of Jesus’ Last Words

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Joe

Joe Paul Kroll completed his PhD thesis, A Human End to History? Hans Blumenberg, Karl Löwith and Carl Schmitt on Secularization and Modernity, in 2010 at Princeton University. A great deal has been written, not least in these pages, of the ‘monstrous … Continue reading →

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Hans Blumenberg: ‘Vergleichsverbot’

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Joe

Joe Paul Kroll completed his PhD thesis, A Human End to History? Hans Blumenberg, Karl Löwith and Carl Schmitt on Secularization and Modernity, in 2010 at Princeton University. This post and original translation is his first post on Chakira. Hans Blumenberg … Continue reading →

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