A new psychology, or “A Title Which Says QUICK HELP” I’ve dabbled in a model for my vision of Torah-originated mapping of our experiences, such that it would not defy approach by strange elocution, whose tempo and logic dance and lose themselves in weaves, and would instead welcome by dazzling with meaningless colours until their audience was ready to hear what they were ready to know: What’s the...
Brainstorming notes: Assuming the following re sexuality: Men desire to dominate women physically, but then to be needed by them physically and emotionally, and woman desire the emotional connection after Men/woman shock each other, re being dishonest to each other about how they feel about each other’s sexual mores; hence to be cross-binary-gender, need to incorporate this, e.g. part1 with...
In my heart, the real challenge awakened into quarrel’s inner courtrooms by Korach is the essence of post-theodic[I] egalitarianism[II], i.e. if all are facets of the same diamond, and all the centre of the stage, then why arrange ourselves by systems that force us to interact with each other and the world in specified protocols? This is both (1) unfair, why should only royalty enjoy fame’s...
Editorial notes: Shai opens this essay on how life and beauty (symbolised in the term “lilacs”) can be produced out of what looks at first like mere dead materiality (“dead soil”) with what looks like a claim to have had a mystical experience of God. He terms that experience as “How I solved the theocratic paradox in trans-noumenal space” – “trans-noumenal space” refers to the infinite...
Anything you say or do can be used against you. The mornings introduce themselves like a waiter living off tips like a feature film (a dramatic good-cop bad-copy slow-paced thriller) – otherwise indistinct from the previews and last minute phone call in the foyer – like a trumpeter testing a borrowed horn. And though “although” I come here every day (tautology...
Editorial notes: This is a meditation on the Shema, and the nature of love. It is pointed out that, as Midrashic commentators say, the reference in the Shema to loving God with all one’s hearts (plural) signifies both with the good and the bad impulse, etc., bringing the evil urge into conformity with the good urge and directed to God. Within the fleshly and worldly is the spiritual and heavenly...
Parallel story of Saul and Shabbatai Tzvi to create a single narrative that turns the conversion of the latter into an act of secret heroism, frame the whole story as being told by Monsieur Chouchani as a commentary to the story of Isaac’s celebration by his father, to a street urchin called Avram in Paris 1945, revealing to him that the secret of the story is not helplessness and confusion, but...
Henry Rockovich; or, Do Magic Mirrors Cause Evil Proclivities (Wicked Witches vs Nokia)? “The ghosts and their assorted undead et al were the first to adopt the new mobile technology. For those who had kept their thumbs when transitioning into the bright light, the keypad was an obvious winner in an industry previously dominated by Ouija boards and foggy mirrors. There were the usual grumble and...
Yochanan Goodall’s research into non-human primate linguistic capacities results in an unexpected plaintiff (gorilla or whatnot) for the courtroom of Rabbi Moses. The genius judge had considered himself to be a lone wolf, but in the eyes of a being who becomes a synecdoche of all that he opposes, he finds for the first time a mirror and sympathy. “The Torah does not deal in extraordinary cases,”...
Editorial notes: This meditation is too self-coded and allusive, playing with letters and word hints in a distinctive fashion, for it to be fully comprehensible. But it seems to be referring to the self’s ability to either create its own world and project itself onto others as a self-centered form of communication (Lot is the example, as if the house in which he dwelt included in his mind those...
