Editorial notes: This essay moves from a brief reference to the Mishnah Shabbat to Kabbalistic categories mentioned in passing referring to Shabbat and everyday affairs, on to Midrashic analogies and the desirability of being true to oneself and ends with applying Kabbalistic terms to the crucial importance of the material world. This is related to the Fifth Commandment of honouring one’s parents...
Editorial notes: The short story below was found in Shai’s Google Drive notes and is clearly incomplete. The Brain Storming section at the end of the narrative alludes to the continuation of the story An apocryphal Braisa, non-canonical and existing only in Arabic: “Rabbi Yona was lost at sea. Can a man’s name be changed in absentia to avert an ill-luck? […]” Thus I have heard, when...
B/S: W/u about letter ayin, connecting Yaakov’s ladder, and Absolute truth/law vs absolute beauty; the idea for samech sofit within reish. which implies the waning of the moon and thus explains how the Mishkan can be built from within Malchut, and thus links to the rope of Kadosh which links to Korach’s judgment which links to the red cow but also, in general, the two goats of Yom...
[Editor: Poor and looks barren] This is probably antithetical to the goal Not happy with this. Plan: Opening room for hope [Optional section, dry but makes methodology justified – how to test belief systems [Optional section: cleaning the board; religion vs Judaism, and implications for approaching a test here. Marking targets for pilot investigation in principle Specific example route...
[Editor: Has potential, but lacks momentum until a vector is adumbrated for the answer] Every year Edge.org designs a question for the leading intellectuals and innovators to pit against their visions, with the hope that the rest of us may thus gain some insight into their mind and understanding[I]. After deliberate deliberation, we will be reincarnating our approach which had become stale and...
{Part 1 – 3/3/2017} B/S: Teruma/Mishkan in terms of Societies made of self-defining individuals who combine into a greater-ly unified character, and yet their collective is a decentralized harmony by way of integrating purposes (without contradiction) Another telling of Creation A mapping of human “unfolding” (cf. creation) onto the metaphysical unfolding (aka creation) Half...
{Part 1 – 22/10/2016} Escape would require some flexibility of intuition and concept (nb. pedigree of terms is arbitrary). I would imagine strengthening a substrate of awareness that acknowledges its own ignorance. I would call this substance metaphorical, and the premises of its construction metaphorical idealism (replacing “conditions of experiencing that define experience” with “defining...
Compare for example Beit Hillel and Beit Shamai on washing hands before bread, and which parts of table-setting may be touched without concern for purity (for potential Teruma): [Is this seen in Brachot 8.4?][I] Does this show that when they are called lenient & strict (i.e. in those few cases which are said to be the cases where this occurs) that they are concerned with the strictness of...
{Part 1 – 22/10/2016} A preamble on Eastern philosophy, religion, idol worship (nb. not referencing F. Bacon[I], but weakly alluding), and phenomenological incongruencies. Any reference to Indian (whether defining geographically, as did the Muslims, vis the river, or by cultural genealogies, via translocated Arayan, [aka] Brahman lineage, or Tantric resurgence [nb. meridian axis or at least...
If it is right to forfeit, then surely a final charge is warranted before we leave our body to rot (eyes bleached and vacant) in the field of action. The goal is not perfection achieved in a giant leap. Rather, to take the first n steps, in their order, as extracted from mental considerations and heuristic understanding. For example, nb. Esav is not the I, but rather a partzuf matrix, therefore...
