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The Three Fiercest Mantras

Many people wonder what the most powerful mantras are. This is a natural question, and I am going to tell you. I should warn you that these mantras are for those who truly desire power, peace and freedom, and not for those who merely seek a passing wind of improvement…

Life Mantras

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The Three Fiercest Mantras
The Three Fiercest Mantras
Life Mantras

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Mar 3

Purim, Spring Subversions, And Siding Against Haman

Purim. The holiday I kind of love, and feel kind of uncomfortable about. But mostly love. Let’s get into it. Purim ostensibly celebrates the Jews turning the tables on their genocidal pursuers in ancient Persia. Things are looking bad when a fortunately placed heroine- Esther- is able to exert influence…

Judaism

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Purim, Spring Subversions, And Siding Against Haman
Purim, Spring Subversions, And Siding Against Haman
Judaism

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Jan 27

10 Spiritual Gems From The Father of Modern Fantasy Literature

What could be cooler than having mentored Lewis Carrol? How about C.S. Lewis calling you his “master”? Being friends with Mark Twain and Walt Whitman? Being amajor inspiration to J.R.R Tolkien? All of this is true of a little known Scottish mystic, poet and writer named George MacDonald (1824–1905). MacDonald…

Literature

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10 Spiritual Gems From The Father of Modern Fantasy Literature
10 Spiritual Gems From The Father of Modern Fantasy Literature
Literature

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Dec 27, 2022

Jacob and the Angel of The Other

Several weeks ago I taught on the Torah portion where Yaa’kov (Jacob) wrestles with a mysterious figure in the night-time, and I though I’d share what I taught here, a meditation on forgiveness, reconciliation, and trauma as the year ends. Several weeks ago Jews read the weekly Torah portion “Vayeitze,”…

Judaism

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Jacob and the Angel of The Other
Jacob and the Angel of The Other
Judaism

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Nov 29, 2022

What Is Happening In Israel?

In the last month, according to Combatants For Peace, there were over 100 attacks by Jewish settlers in the occupied territories against Palestinians — and these attacks occurred in just over 10 days. These settlers, who are rarely brought to account by the Israeli state, and in fact receive support…

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What Is Happening In Israel?
What Is Happening In Israel?

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Nov 29, 2022

Palestine between Israel and Israel

What happened between the exile of the Jews and the Zionist return? “Palestine” is a very old name for the region that more or less maps onto what Jews called Eretz Yisrael, one that goes back to 12 century BCE Egyptian inscriptions which call the area Paleset. …

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Palestine between Israel and Israel
Palestine between Israel and Israel

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Nov 29, 2022

War In The Hebrew Bible

Both warfare and the rhetoric of war were brutal in the ancient Near East. Yet as Christian theologian Preston Sprinkle points out in his excellent book on violence in the Bible, Fight, “Israel was less violent (than surrounding cultures) and had a stripped down- almost absurd- warfare policy.” In the…

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War In The Hebrew Bible
War In The Hebrew Bible

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Nov 29, 2022

Is The Israeli State A Rejection of Judaism?

This is an article I have wanted to write for a long time. The massive tension between the current Zionist Israeli state and traditional Jewish ethics and belief is not a new thing: it dates back to the very start of the Zionist movement in the 1890s and the early…

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Is The Israeli State A Rejection of Judaism?
Is The Israeli State A Rejection of Judaism?

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Nov 29, 2022

Early Zionism and The Settling of Palestine

The Holy Land Before Zionism Jews lost all power in our homeland in 136 CE after the Bar Kokhba revolt was crushed by the Roman Empire. By then it had been some time since Jews had ruled the region the Hebrew Bible says was promised to us by God. The…

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Early Zionism and The Settling of Palestine
Early Zionism and The Settling of Palestine

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Aug 10, 2022

Making Chelm Great Again

A Satire Note: In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, Chelm functions as an imaginary town of fools. The following piece, which I wrote in February of 2017 after Trump’s election, continues in that tradition. …

Satire

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Satire

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Matthew Gindin

Matthew Gindin

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Trying to be both civic and civil. Freelancer available for hire. www.matthewgindin.com

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