Rabbi Artson discusses how to make love last and contemporary Jewish thought in this weeks podcast.
Rabbi Artson records his podcast in a Q and A format in this series. He answers a variety of questions on Europe and the Holocaust in this segment.
Beyond Letters on Parchment
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If you tell a child, "don't move an inch," what do they do? They move, an inch. Why? Because they know you don't literally mean, "an inch" and, most children enjoy proving you wrong! Jewish tradition rarely suffices itself with literal reading. Even those with distaste for more mystical, esoteric readings of the Torah understand that the literal understanding of a verse is rarely its simple, plain (p'shat) meaning.
Beyond Letters on Parchment
Author
5770
If you tell a child, "don't move an inch," what do they do? They move, an inch. Why? Because they know you don't literally mean, "an inch" and, most children enjoy proving you wrong! Jewish tradition rarely suffices itself with literal reading. Even those with distaste for more mystical, esoteric readings of the Torah understand that the literal understanding of a verse is rarely its simple, plain (p'shat) meaning.
In this podcast episode, Rabbi Artson discusses the Shema prayer.
Form and Substance
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Every living thing exhibits a balance between alteration and continuity. A single cell, for example, takes in new substances (food, air, water) and remolds those building blocks to fashion its own form. At the same time that its constituents change, its shape remains the same. Persistence and change, it seems, are simply different phases of the same phenomenon, different faces of the same reality. One cannot successfully remain and thrive without an openness to change, and one cannot retain the energy and will to change without a commitment to something timeless and constant.
Rabbi Artson uses a Q and A format for this week's podcast. In this segment, he answers questions on topics such as life after death, Halakhah, the Haggadah and more.
This is the first of two segments on Jewish food justice. In this segment, Rabbi Artson talks about how to set the agenda for food justice.
In this segment, Rabbi Artson does his podcast in a Q and A format. He talks about contemporary issues such as teaching teens, pluralism, does belief in God matter and more.
Parents and Children - "Honor your father and mother." (Exodus 20:12)
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The Ten Commandments are probably the most well-known part of the Torah, and along with the prohibitions against murder and theft, the commandment to honor one's parents is probably the most well remembered of the Ten. As a child, I thought that this commandment was addressed to young children and their parents and that it required me to obey my parents - and my parents did not disabuse me of that interpretation!