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Reading.
Torah. This week we're reading Ki Tisa (beginning at Exodus 30:11), which begins with the command for the Israelites to contribute half a shekel each for the Sanctuary, and continues with the sin of the golden calf and the breaking of the first set of the Tablets. Back in 2016, I was inspired by this Parasha to take a count of some Jewish schoolchildren in Uganda.
Scripture. In the 929 Project's chapter-by-chapter cycle, we are at II Samuel 18, where King David must deal with the rebellion by his son Absalom. Absalom is finally found - tangled by his luxuriant locks in a terebinth tree - and killed; but now it is Joab who faces a sticky situation. Miriam Gedweiser: 'When informed that Absalom is hanging in a tree, Job asks the messenger, incredulously, “Why didn’t you kill him then and there?” For Joab, it is as if the King’s impossible request to “deal gently” has simply not registered. The text has Joab’s interlocutor explicitly cite the king’s order, however, to highlight the conscious choice Joab is making. ...'
Books. I am finally close to finishing my re-read of the wonderful and deservedly classic fantasy novel 'The Last Unicorn' by Peter S. Beagle. My good friend Michael Weingrad wrote an erudite review of The Last Unicorn (free to read with registration). I'm going to have a few thoughts of my own once I've finished.
Scripture. In the 929 Project's chapter-by-chapter cycle, we are at II Samuel 18, where King David must deal with the rebellion by his son Absalom. Absalom is finally found - tangled by his luxuriant locks in a terebinth tree - and killed; but now it is Joab who faces a sticky situation. Miriam Gedweiser: 'When informed that Absalom is hanging in a tree, Job asks the messenger, incredulously, “Why didn’t you kill him then and there?” For Joab, it is as if the King’s impossible request to “deal gently” has simply not registered. The text has Joab’s interlocutor explicitly cite the king’s order, however, to highlight the conscious choice Joab is making. ...'
Books. I am finally close to finishing my re-read of the wonderful and deservedly classic fantasy novel 'The Last Unicorn' by Peter S. Beagle. My good friend Michael Weingrad wrote an erudite review of The Last Unicorn (free to read with registration). I'm going to have a few thoughts of my own once I've finished.