The Traveller's Last Journey DEDICATED TO SHAI MAROM Z"L

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A Letter to the Ultra-Orthodox

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From me, Not really the same colour as you. There is a potent danger which I mostly leave unstated – due to seeming irrelevance to most – but which I hope I can articulate by imagining you as my audience. Bullet points thinking: Moshe unites oil into menorah that is tended by Aaron’s offspring Teruma and ma’aser etc (?) allow am ha’aretz to unite with cohanim etc...

Ecce Homo Sapien

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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,”...

Bamidbar

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Practical Midrash: Thinking about secondary “currency” used to stabilize internal value (money) flow between gov’t and citizens, such that tax is not a “gift” to government, but rather a loss-invoking investment (~renting stock/bonds) which [i.e. ~reimbursement/repayment/dividends] has been capped according to the relationship between concentrated value (e.g. gold) and fundamental value (e.g...

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