I discuss this novel with Monica, an English Literature professor.
We were prompted with these questions by another English Lit professor — a Christian — who’s teaching the book to her class:
Thursday, September 30, 2010
My Name Is Asher Lev VII
I discuss this novel with Monica, an English Literature professor.
We were prompted with these questions by another English Lit professor — a Christian — who’s teaching the book to her class:
My Name Is Asher Lev IV
I discuss this novel with Monica, an English Literature professor.
We were prompted with these questions by another English Lit professor — a Christian — who’s teaching the book to her class:
My Name Is Asher Lev V
I discuss this novel with Monica, an English Literature professor.
We were prompted with these questions by another English Lit professor — a Christian — who’s teaching the book to her class:
My Name Is Asher Lev III
I discuss this novel with Monica, an English Literature professor.
We were prompted with these questions by another English Lit professor — a Christian — who’s teaching the book to her class:
My Name Is Asher Lev
I discuss this novel with Monica, an English Literature professor.
We were prompted with these questions by another English Lit professor — a Christian — who’s teaching the book to her class:
1. Early on in My Name Is Asher Lev, Asher sees his father reading a passage from the tractate Sanhedrin which says that “Any man who has caused a single Jewish soul to perish, the Torah considers it as if he had caused a whole world to perish; and any man who has saved a Jewish soul, it is as if he had saved a whole world” (11). Asher, in response, asks if this concept applies only to the Jew, to which his father replies that “No . . . . Elsewhere the same passage appears without the word ‘Jewish.’” Nevertheless, throughout the novel, both Asher’s father and the mashpia ascribe a special worth to the Jewish soul which they deny to the goy; for example, Asher’s father at one point, in imagining Asher will soon become a goy, asserts, “Better you should not have been born” (176). Can we read such instances as distortions of genuine Judaic principles? What distinctions does the Jewish tradition, at its core, make between Jews and non-Jews, and are these distinctions identical to those held by the Hasidic sect?
2. What would you say are the chief characteristics of Hasidism that distinguish it from regular Judaism?
My Name Is Asher Lev II
I discuss this novel with Monica, an English Literature professor.
We were prompted with these questions by another English Lit professor — a Christian — who’s teaching the book to her class:
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Rabbi Rabbs, Luke Ford On Genesis X
This week we have two Torah portions — V’Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12) and Bereishit (Genesis 1:1–6:8).
We talk about the 2010 movie Casino Jack about the Orthodox Jew and scandalous lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Rabbi Rabbs, Luke Ford On Genesis IX
This week we have two Torah portions — V’Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12) and Bereishit (Genesis 1:1–6:8).
We talk about the 2010 movie Casino Jack about the Orthodox Jew and scandalous lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Rabbi Rabbs, Luke Ford On Genesis VII
This week we have two Torah portions — V’Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12) and Bereishit (Genesis 1:1–6:8).
We talk about the 2010 movie Casino Jack about the Orthodox Jew and scandalous lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Rabbi Rabbs, Luke Ford On Genesis VI
This week we have two Torah portions — V’Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12) and Bereishit (Genesis 1:1–6:8).
We talk about the 2010 movie Casino Jack about the Orthodox Jew and scandalous lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Rabbi Rabbs, Luke Ford On Genesis V
This week we have two Torah portions — V’Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12) and Bereishit (Genesis 1:1–6:8).
We talk about the 2010 movie Casino Jack about the Orthodox Jew and scandalous lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Rabbi Rabbs, Luke Ford On Genesis VIII
This week we have two Torah portions — V’Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12) and Bereishit (Genesis 1:1–6:8).
We talk about the 2010 movie Casino Jack about the Orthodox Jew and scandalous lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Rabbi Rabbs, Luke Ford On Genesis IV
This week we have two Torah portions — V’Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12) and Bereishit (Genesis 1:1–6:8).
We talk about the 2010 movie Casino Jack about the Orthodox Jew and scandalous lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Rabbi Rabbs, Luke Ford On Genesis III
This week we have two Torah portions — V’Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12) and Bereishit (Genesis 1:1–6:8).
We talk about the 2010 movie Casino Jack about the Orthodox Jew and scandalous lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Rabbi Rabbs, Luke Ford On Genesis II
This week we have two Torah portions — V’Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12) and Bereishit (Genesis 1:1–6:8).
We talk about the 2010 movie Casino Jack about the Orthodox Jew and scandalous lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Rabbi Rabbs, Luke Ford On Genesis
This week we have two Torah portions — V’Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1–34:12) and Bereishit (Genesis 1:1–6:8).
We talk about the 2010 movie Casino Jack about the Orthodox Jew and scandalous lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
TV Reporter Ines Sainz Sexually Harassed?
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager talked about sexy TV reporter Ines Sainz who claimed the New York Jets harassed her:
Ines Sainz is a sports reporter for TV Azteca in Mexico.
She went into the New York Jets locker room and according to the USA Today, she was dressed in tight jeans, high heels, and a low-cut blouse.
You have a sexy young woman in a low-cut blouse. I’ve seen the pictures of this woman and the jeans and I don’t know how she gets into them. Maybe she sleeps in them? Maybe she showers in them? They’re very hard to get on and off, I have to believe, by simple laws of physics. She walks in high heels, which of course is the typical dress code for a locker room. The men are walking around essentially naked except for a towel perhaps. They whooped it up.
How To Make A Woman Feel Safe
On Dennis Prager’s radio show today, he spent an hour with relationship expert Alison Armstrong.
Dennis: “I think it is easier for men to understand women.”
“When you told me the pillow is messy and it’s yelling at you, I understood that.”
Alison busts up laughing.
Alison: I would consider my being called a sexist accurate. I am a sexist.”
Dennis: “So is nature.”
Alison: “One of the things that makes women feel safe is commitment.”
“Safety is totally different for men and for women. It’s also masculine and feminine. A masculine woman will relate to safety the same way men do — your safety is based on your ability to produce whereas a woman’s safety has to do with her physical safety and her ability to connect.
Do You Have Best Doctor In America?
I’m listening to a 2009 lecture by Dennis Prager — “Why Have Our Universities Gone Wrong?”
Dennis says: “Did you choose anyone in your life based on what college they went to?”
“If somebody says to you, and this is particularly true for Jews, ‘I have the best endocrinologist in America’.”
“If you are a Gentile and you feel you have the best doctor in America, please raise your hand. Not one hand.
“Jews all have the best. It doesn’t matter where I go. I go to Milwaukee and I hear, ‘The best endocrinologist in America is here.’
“Maybe that’s why Jews are so healthy. They think they have the best doctors.
“How do you choose a doctor? Somebody recommended, right? You don’t even care what medical school he went to.
“Do you care where your pilot went to school?”
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