Judaism has an interesting relationship with the concept of seeing things. In both of my previous #BlogElul posts on this theme (here and here), I give the same quote from the Sh'ma, the iconic prayer, which is ironically a call to our hearing (it literally begins "Hear, O Israel!"). But in the third paragraph of … Continue reading #BlogElul 10: See
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I’ll See It When I Believe It
Do I have the old adage backwards? Surely we'll believe it when we see it, not the other way around? Not if you ask David Wood. His thesis is that we see things when we believe in them. Now that's food for thought. I particularly like the podcast episode I linked to above because David … Continue reading I’ll See It When I Believe It
Seeing – #BlogElul 22
This morning at minyan I had the privilege of leading Shacharit, as I usually do on Sundays. I was thinking about the commandment to wear the tzitzit, the ritual fringes that give the tallit its meaning - otherwise it is just a four-cornered shawl. We remind ourselves of this commandment every morning in the third … Continue reading Seeing – #BlogElul 22