Comments for Beyond The Near http://beyondthenear.net/blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 Comment on Responsibility by Jeremiah Hill http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/10/19/responsibility/#comment-97070 Jeremiah Hill Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:50:10 +0000 http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/10/19/responsibility/#comment-97070 Gella, a question: what has kept you in the CJ movement? Gella, a question: what has kept you in the CJ movement?

]]> Comment on A Thought On My Fringes by Azadi http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2008/01/02/a-thought-on-my-fringes/#comment-94454 Azadi Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:38:55 +0000 http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2008/01/02/a-thought-on-my-fringes/#comment-94454 Hey Chelsea! I currently have three. One a good friend made for me out of a women's tank top. One is a small <a href="http://www.premierjudaica.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=neatzit" rel="nofollow">Neatzit</a>, and one is just a standard one that you can find in any Judaica store. Hey Chelsea!

I currently have three. One a good friend made for me out of a women’s tank top. One is a small Neatzit, and one is just a standard one that you can find in any Judaica store.

]]> Comment on A Thought On My Fringes by Chelsea http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2008/01/02/a-thought-on-my-fringes/#comment-87380 Chelsea Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:27:17 +0000 http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2008/01/02/a-thought-on-my-fringes/#comment-87380 I enjoyed this very much thank you. Where did you get your katan?? I enjoyed this very much thank you. Where did you get your katan??

]]> Comment on The Davenning Experience by Azadi http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/09/22/the-davenning-experience/#comment-78261 Azadi Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:48:50 +0000 http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/09/22/the-davenning-experience/#comment-78261 Excellent questions Jeremiah, and I think that they probably merit their own post(s). <i>Bli neder,</i> I'll try to get to it tomorrow. Excellent questions Jeremiah, and I think that they probably merit their own post(s). Bli neder, I’ll try to get to it tomorrow.

]]> Comment on The Davenning Experience by Jeremiah Hill http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/09/22/the-davenning-experience/#comment-78253 Jeremiah Hill Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:37:16 +0000 http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/09/22/the-davenning-experience/#comment-78253 Really interesting (and related, tangentially, to some of the things that pushed me away from shul attendance many years ago). A few questions (not, I hope, obnoxious or impertinent): 1. When you say that getting the content takes work, what work, exactly, are you thinking of? 2. What, in your view, does it mean to daven? Is that different from what it means to pray? (A rabbi of mine once drew that distinction.) 3. How would you teach people about (2)? 4. What *is* davening about? Really interesting (and related, tangentially, to some of the things that pushed me away from shul attendance many years ago). A few questions (not, I hope, obnoxious or impertinent):

1. When you say that getting the content takes work, what work, exactly, are you thinking of?

2. What, in your view, does it mean to daven? Is that different from what it means to pray? (A rabbi of mine once drew that distinction.)

3. How would you teach people about (2)?

4. What *is* davening about?

]]> Comment on A Joyful Yom Kippur by Beyond The Near » Blog Archive » The Davenning Experience http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2008/10/17/a-joyful-yom-kippur/#comment-78247 Beyond The Near » Blog Archive » The Davenning Experience Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:22:50 +0000 http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2008/10/17/a-joyful-yom-kippur/#comment-78247 [...] Davenning ExperienceMy Life In Midrash… New BeginningsThoughts on ChanukkahA Joyful Yom KippurDvar Torah on V’Etchanan and ShemaCovering My HeadSichot and First-Order TheologyShmirat [...] […] Davenning ExperienceMy Life In Midrash… New BeginningsThoughts on ChanukkahA Joyful Yom KippurDvar Torah on V’Etchanan and ShemaCovering My HeadSichot and First-Order TheologyShmirat […]

]]> Comment on Thoughts on Chanukkah by jay http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/01/03/thuoghts-on-chanukkah/#comment-61525 jay Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:57:15 +0000 http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/01/03/thuoghts-on-chanukkah/#comment-61525 I had forgotten that you were posting from time to time and just read this. Very enlightening (pun intended?)and not surprisingly analytical. While on the subject of holidays not named Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Pesach, what's your take on Purim? reading the megillah this year, something "new" struck me. That is, how peculiarly un-Jewish the story is. Notably, in the aftermath of Haman's none-too-soon exit and the killing of his ten sons, we then went on a killing spree across the region and the megillah logs over 20,000 deaths. Curious indeed, as the story would have us think that after Haman and his progeny bit the dust we, as a people, were relatively safe from the oppression and punishment sought to be inflicted upon us. What do you think it all means? BTW, Yasher Koach on the JTS thing. Hope to see you this summer. I had forgotten that you were posting from time to time and just read this. Very enlightening (pun intended?)and not surprisingly analytical. While on the subject of holidays not named Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Pesach, what’s your take on Purim? reading the megillah this year, something “new” struck me. That is, how peculiarly un-Jewish the story is. Notably, in the aftermath of Haman’s none-too-soon exit and the killing of his ten sons, we then went on a killing spree across the region and the megillah logs over 20,000 deaths. Curious indeed, as the story would have us think that after Haman and his progeny bit the dust we, as a people, were relatively safe from the oppression and punishment sought to be inflicted upon us.
What do you think it all means?

BTW, Yasher Koach on the JTS thing. Hope to see you this summer.

]]> Comment on Thoughts on Chanukkah by Barbara http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/01/03/thuoghts-on-chanukkah/#comment-52828 Barbara Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:47:53 +0000 http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/01/03/thuoghts-on-chanukkah/#comment-52828 Very nicely put. It's so nice when a kid actually GETS what the parents are trying to instill. Very nicely put. It’s so nice when a kid actually GETS what the parents are trying to instill.

]]> Comment on Thoughts on Chanukkah by Jen http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/01/03/thuoghts-on-chanukkah/#comment-50559 Jen Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:19:15 +0000 http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2009/01/03/thuoghts-on-chanukkah/#comment-50559 Yup, nicely put. It fascinates me how visceral the tree issue is. Moar response under the friendslock, because this is the sort of thing that gets one flamed, and I don't like that :) Yup, nicely put.

It fascinates me how visceral the tree issue is.

Moar response under the friendslock, because this is the sort of thing that gets one flamed, and I don’t like that :)

]]> Comment on Seeing The (Surrogate) Family by Natan Skop http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2007/06/20/seeing-the-surrogate-family/#comment-45173 Natan Skop Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:22:53 +0000 http://beyondthenear.net/blog/2007/06/20/seeing-the-surrogate-family/#comment-45173 When did you take all of these pictures of me? When did you take all of these pictures of me?

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