A NEW RELIGION
  • Intro
  • A) Seven Themes
    • I. Relating to the above
    • 2. The Premise
    • 3. You know the truth
    • 4. There is meaning
    • 5. Appreciation and humility
    • 6. Help
    • 7. Living
    • A) Commentary
  • B) Realizations
    • 1. Realizations Introduction
    • 2. Aspects
    • 3. Roots of the New Religion
    • 4. My journey just to God
    • 5. Meditation and talking to God
    • 6. Christianity
    • 7. Judaism and Islam
    • 8. Local Indigenous and Eastern traditions
    • 9. New Age Individualism Isolation Evolution Devolution
    • 10. Gravitational Bands and The American Indian
    • 11. Transcendentalism and Deism
    • B) Commentary
  • C) Information
    • 1. Three Religions Judaism Rosenzweig History Torah 1.A thru E
    • 2. Three Religions Judaism Evidence 1.F thu L
    • 3. Three Religions Moses Torah Exodus 2.A thru C
    • 4. Three Religions Judaism Exodus Mythicism 2.D thu E
    • 5. Christianity Intro Versions Timing Sources 3.A thru C
    • 6. Christianity Arguments For and Against 3. D. thru J
    • 7. Christianity. Mythicist - Atwill 3. K thru L
    • 8. Islam-Sadar Ali Bukhsh-4.A thru C
    • 9. Islam: Hussein, Ali essays - Pro/con research 4.D thru K
    • 10. Islam: Nevo, Koren, Spencer 4.L. thru P
    • 11. Islam: Spencer, Mizrachi, Lewis, 4.Q thru U. 5. Summary
    • C) Commentary
  • General Comments
  • Wisdom/Truths
  • Contact
​
Wisdom/Truths

Various writings and poetry from sages and thinkers from the past and present with some emphasis upon Judaic   sources are shown.  The purpose is to enliven and stimulate our spiritual sensibilities on many levels.  This is one..  While 'A New Religion' seeks to relate to the above in a fresh way, these writings are part of the soil that can nourish this effort..

Various Masters

9/22/2019

0 Comments

 
102.

Various Masters


B'rakhot of Request

Knowledge

The Hasidic master Isaac Meir of Gur taught: Of all the b'rakhot of request, only this one begins with “You” rather than with the verb expressing the request.  We thus begin the prayers of request by creating a space, a space that is open to a mysterious You, a space that acknowledges our own lack of understanding, which makes us realize that we have to seek understanding.

In the name of Baal Shem Tov it is said:  What is knowledge?  It is the constant awareness that God dwells within you.

Yehudah ArYer Lev of Gur

What is the understanding for which we pray?  It is a prayer for empathy:  an understanding of the other.

Based on Elijah De Vidas

What is wisdom?  It is the increasing knowledge of the world, for the more you know of the world the more you will come to love God.

Based on Maimonides

Repentance

Every day a voice goes out from the Temple Mount:  Return, O My wayward children!

Based on The Midrash

Forgiveness

In asking for forgiveness, we first of all address God as parent, that is as creator, for what we seek is to return to your true being, our origin, to be who we truly need to be.  This is the meaning of t'shuvah, return.

Redemption

God is called Redeemer, in the present tense, for redemption is always present.

Jacob Emden 

0 Comments

Holy Quiet

9/22/2019

0 Comments

 
101.

Holy Quiet

Quietly you utter
the word “quiet”
and already you have
  marred
the quiet.

I was in a holy quiet
only once.

Once--
Once I had an orchard--
apples, pears, cherries,
  plums,
and at the fringes, by themselves  fences,
raspberries, gooseberries,
  currants,
and all kinds of flowers.

Summer dusk.  Alone in my
  orchard.
A moment, an eternity,
the owl held back its
  poo-hoo,
the cuckoo forgot its
  cuckoo---
a wild berry by the path in
  the weeds
fixed in its gaze.
And I--
quiet multiplied by
  quiet--
did not interrupt my quiet
  prayer
with even a quiver
when the Shekhinah
kissed a leaf down from a
  pear tree,
carried it away,
and let it fall onto themselves
  brook
at the orchard's edge.

Malka Heifetz Tussman

(translated by Marci
a Falk)
0 Comments

The Renewal of Friendship

9/22/2019

0 Comments

 
100.

The Renewal of Friendship

The new moon is a signal of renewal.

Maremar and Mar Zutra, two of the greatest sages of their age, would hug each other while reciting the blessing of the new moon, thus renewing their friendship.

Babylonian Talmud
0 Comments

The Canopy of Peace: the Sukkah of Peace

8/25/2019

0 Comments

 
99.

The Canopy of Peace, the Sukkah of Peace

Peace comes to us in the recognition that when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, when we recognize that we cannot control everything, redemption can be achieved.  The central image in this prayer is the “sukkah of peace.:  The sukkah is a fragile structure, open to the elements.  Peace is pictured not as a temple, solidly built, gulded, perhaps ornate, but rather as created out of the most fragmentary of materials, leaving us vulnerable and at risk. 
0 Comments

Shalom

8/25/2019

0 Comments

 
​98.

Shalom

A man growing old is going
down the dark stairs. 
He has been speaking  of the
  Soul...
Of dreams
burnt in the bone.

He looks up
to the friends who lean
out of light and wine
over the well of stairs.
They ask his pardon
for the dark they can't help.

“It's alright,” answers
the man going down.
“It's alright ---there are many
avenues, many corridors of
  the soul
that are dark also.
Shalom.”


Denise Levertov
0 Comments

Exiles

8/25/2019

0 Comments

 
97. 

Exiles

A Hasidic master taught:  When we bring into the light the parts of ourselves that we have let languish, that is the ingathering of the exiles.

0 Comments

Healing

8/4/2019

0 Comments

 
​96.

Healing


Heal  the people I know
and heal the people whom
I don't know.  Heal those
who have helped me in the
past and heal those who
have harmed me.   Heal
those I love and heal those
with whom I am angry.

Elijah De Vidas
0 Comments

Sages

8/4/2019

0 Comments

 
95. 


Sages

Who are the sages?  They are the people who teach children.

0 Comments

The Righteous

8/4/2019

0 Comments

 
 ​94.

The Righteous

In speaking of the reward for the righteous, the Hebrew uses the word 'tov,' meaning “good” (translated here as “truly”).  At the end of the creation story in Genesis, we are told that God saw all that was created and it was good (tov).  The reward of the righteous is that they will have eyes that see the good as God did.
0 Comments

Justice

8/4/2019

0 Comments

 
93,  

Justice

A world of true justice is a world in which God's love is sovereign.

Siddur
0 Comments
<<Previous

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    September 2019
    August 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017

    Categories

    All
    Adom Olam (song)
    Adonai Tz'vaot
    Adrienne Rich
    Ahad-HA-AM
    A. Heschel
    Appeals To Care
    Artson...intimacy
    Babylonian Talmud
    Daneil Nevins
    DeathDying
    Elijah De Vidas
    Exiles
    God's Voice
    Government
    Hillel
    Holiness
    Jules Harlow
    Justice
    Kaddish
    Kaddish And Loss
    Life To The Dead
    Light
    Maimonides
    Marcia Falk
    MIracles
    Morning Prayers
    Mourning Prayers
    Mystery
    Nahman Of Bratzlav
    New Moon
    Occam's Razor
    Praise
    Prayer
    Rabbi Kedar During 'Omer'
    Rivka Miriam
    Rosenzweig
    Rosh Hodesh
    Schulweis
    Shabbat
    Siddur
    Silence
    Steven B. Nussdorf
    Sukkah
    Talmud
    Teresa Of Avila
    Torah And Longing
    Torah...what It's About
    Tzamah Nafshi
    Words
    Zeitlin...holiness

    RSS Feed

  • Intro
  • A) Seven Themes
    • I. Relating to the above
    • 2. The Premise
    • 3. You know the truth
    • 4. There is meaning
    • 5. Appreciation and humility
    • 6. Help
    • 7. Living
    • A) Commentary
  • B) Realizations
    • 1. Realizations Introduction
    • 2. Aspects
    • 3. Roots of the New Religion
    • 4. My journey just to God
    • 5. Meditation and talking to God
    • 6. Christianity
    • 7. Judaism and Islam
    • 8. Local Indigenous and Eastern traditions
    • 9. New Age Individualism Isolation Evolution Devolution
    • 10. Gravitational Bands and The American Indian
    • 11. Transcendentalism and Deism
    • B) Commentary
  • C) Information
    • 1. Three Religions Judaism Rosenzweig History Torah 1.A thru E
    • 2. Three Religions Judaism Evidence 1.F thu L
    • 3. Three Religions Moses Torah Exodus 2.A thru C
    • 4. Three Religions Judaism Exodus Mythicism 2.D thu E
    • 5. Christianity Intro Versions Timing Sources 3.A thru C
    • 6. Christianity Arguments For and Against 3. D. thru J
    • 7. Christianity. Mythicist - Atwill 3. K thru L
    • 8. Islam-Sadar Ali Bukhsh-4.A thru C
    • 9. Islam: Hussein, Ali essays - Pro/con research 4.D thru K
    • 10. Islam: Nevo, Koren, Spencer 4.L. thru P
    • 11. Islam: Spencer, Mizrachi, Lewis, 4.Q thru U. 5. Summary
    • C) Commentary
  • General Comments
  • Wisdom/Truths
  • Contact