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130.01/ Week one-hundred and thirty, January 7-13, 2023, thread begins here.
Week 129 below.
Week 129 below.
130.02/ Things got weird over Shabbas, I see.
130.03/ Things got REALLY weird over Shabbas I see. Sigh.
74.01/ Week seventy-four, Dec. 11-17, 2021, thread here.
Week 73 below.
Week 73 below.
74.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. This week: Sneakers (1992) with Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Akroyd, really an amazing cast. Underrated film.
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74.03/ I can see having more than one of these surrounding me in my library if I lived in days of yore.
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Here is an idea from my essay on #Vayechi, "Family, Faith and Freedom": 🇬🇧 bit.ly/2sUaV6V / 🇮🇱 bit.ly/2T2ohbO / 🇪🇸 bit.ly/2T12Rfm / 🇫🇷 bit.ly/37GQOI4 / Family Edition bit.ly/2QVb55P / Listen spoti.fi/33Npq9s. #ShabbatShalom
#Genesis is not a hymn to the virtue of families. It is a candid, honest, fully worked-through account of what it is to confront some of the main problems within families, even the best.
Genesis ends on three important resolutions: first, that grandparents are part of the family and their blessing is important.
Here is a thread from my Covenant & Conversation essay on #Vayechi. You can read it in full here: bit.ly/2Ls26pB & download the accompanying Family Edition here: bit.ly/2GvgVcs. #ShabbatShalom
The great truth about the role of time in our lives is that we live life forwards, but we understand it only looking back.
What we become depends on our choices, and we are often free to choose this way or that. But what we become shapes the story of our life, and only in hindsight, looking back, do we see the past in context, as part of a tale whose end we now know.
