WHAT THE INTERNET IS DOING TO OUR MINDS – BIBLIOGRAPHY Nicholas Carr: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Minds. Mary Anne Wolf: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Benjamin N. Cardozo: The Nature of the Judicial Process (Yale University Press, 1921, Renewed 1949, printed 1964.) We do not pick our rules of law full-blossomed from the trees. Every judge consulting his own experience must be conscious of times when a free exercise of will, directed of set purpose to the furtherance of the common good, determined the form and tendency of a rule which at […]
We shall explore the historical record of how Jews coming from Europe in the early 1900’s abandoned Jewish religious practices, including the wearing of Tefillin. For the moment, click here for an article about Arthur Rubinstein of Vancouver, British Columbia at the Statue of Liberty.
Ever since I put on Tefillin at bar mitzvah age, I have wondered how strange they were. What other people in the world wear boxes on their heads? I certainly would not expect such behaviour from someone educated and refined in the 21st Century. Except we, Jewish children, grew up with Tefillin. Everyone in our society, everyone in our world wore Tefillin. So the sense of the “queer” […]
Judaism by definition is historical. The story begins with Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov and then continues with Yaakov’s children, describing their descent into Egypt. It is not reasonable to think that the Galut, the Diaspora in Egypt would not affect the lives of Yaakov’s descendants in Egypt. It is also apparent that Moshe, Aharon, and the Elders who attended court visits to the Pharoah saw him in all […]
רמב”ם הלכות תפילין ומזוזה וספר תורה פרק ד הלכה כה קדושת תפילין קדושתן גדולה היא שכל זמן שהתפילין בראשו של אדם ועל זרועו הוא עניו וירא שמים ואינו נמשך בשחוק ובשיחה בטילה ואינו מהרהר מחשבות רעות אלא מפנה לבו בדברי האמת והצדק, לפיכך צריך אדם להשתדל להיותן עליו פ כל היום שמצותן כך היא, אמרו עליו על רב תלמידו של רבינו הקדוש שכל ימיו לא ראוהו שהלך ארבע […]
According to the Rambam, there are some parables in which “each word has a meaning.” There are likewise some commandments concerning which “the particulars of, and conditions for, them have become clear.” As a matter of fact, Maimonides suggests that more particulars could be understood if we have more historical information; specifically, particulars concerning sacrifices and uncleanness. Furthermore, he completes the parallel by applying the same thesis to […]
Consider the Ureus and its role and importance to the dress of the Pharaohs. Click here: Click here for Reasons for the Mitzvot Part 2 Click here for The Two Eyes of Horus
דברים פרק ד ה) רְאֵה לִמַּדְתִּי אֶתְכֶם חֻקִּים וּמִשְׁפָּטִים כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוַּנִי יְקֹוָק אֱלֹהָי לַעֲשׂוֹת כֵּן בְּקֶרֶב הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם בָּאִים שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ: ו) וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם וַעֲשִׂיתֶם כִּי הִוא חָכְמַתְכֶם וּבִינַתְכֶם לְעֵינֵי הָעַמִּים אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁמְעוּן אֵת כָּל הַחֻקִּים הָאֵלֶּה וְאָמְרוּ רַק עַם חָכָם וְנָבוֹן הַגּוֹי הַגָּדוֹל הַזֶּה: Behold I have taught you statutes and ordinances to perform in the midst of the land which you are coming to inherit. Be […]
Click here for a dramatic presentation of The Nature of Mathematics and its place in The Universe. DECODING THE UNIVERSE:
