Today’s One-Liner (#129)
My idea in my story telling is to make Jews better Jews, and Christians better Christians, and in general, if possible at all, make man a little bit warmer, so he will not feel crushed…
Category: Jewish Tradition
More Recent Reading
Dear L., Here is a list of some books I’ve read in the past few years. Given my pretty rigid leftist mindset, Simone Weil’s maxim was often on my mind in reading the following……
Today’s One-Liner (#117)
The more man plans, the harder God laughs. –Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman, translated by Hillel Halkin
Today’s One-Liner (#115)
There are three crowns: the crown of learning, the crown of priesthood, and the crown of royalty; but the crown of a good name excels them all. –R. Simeon, in Joseph Hertz, Sayings of the…
Today’s One-Liner (#114)
Nothing is more dangerous, either for an individual, or for a people, than to confess to sins of which one is innocent. –Ahad Ha’am, quoted in David Mamet, The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the…
A Poet’s Life
Yankev Glatshteyn worked in over fifty sweatshops. –Janet Hadda, Yankev Glatshteyn
Today’s One-Liner (#91)
It is not in our power to explain either the prosperity of the wicked or the afflictions of the righteous. –R. Yannai, in Joseph Hertz, Sayings of the Fathers
Today’s One-Liner (#85)
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. –Koheleth, 1:9, King James…
Today’s One-Liner (#84)
Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant. –Moshe Feldenkrais
Maniacal Obstinacy
I often wonder whether I have in me a single gene or drop off blood inherited from my biblical ancestors, or even from the ghettos of the old Spanish and German cities. Who knows, perhaps…