"How & Why Religion Matters in the 21st Century"
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Who Will Remain, What Will Remain?
Who will remain, what will remain? A wind will remain behind,
there will remain the blindness of the disappearing blind.
There will remain a string of foam: a sign of the sea,
there will remain a puff of cloud hooked upon a tree.
Who will remain, what will remain? A syllable will remain behind,
primeval, to cultivate its creation again in time.
There will remain a fiddlerose in honor of itself alone,
to be understood by seven blades of all grass that grows.
More than all the stars there are from north to here,
there will remain the star that falls in a true tear.
A drop of wine will always remain in a pitcher too.
Who will remain? God will remain, isn’t that enough for you?
Abraham Sutzkever
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Sinagoga Neve Shalom
The clock on display at Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul is stuck at 9:17, the moment on September 6, 1986,
when Arab terrorists attacked the Jewish landmark, killing 22 worshipers.
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Question: I’ve noticed that there are a lot of different symbols that indicate something is kosher. An OU, a triangle K, a cRc in a triangle, etc. One of my
friends only eats things with some of the symbols, and not others.
What’s the difference?
–Pam, Austin
–Pam, Austin
Answer: You’re right that there are dozens of different symbols that indicate something is kosher. Each symbol, known as a hechsher, comes from a different organization or rabbi.
What The Labels and Symbols Mean
So when you see an "OU" on a package (designated by a U inside a circle, or O), you know that product was certified as kosher by the Orthodox Union. A "cRc" comes from the Chicago Rabbinical Council. "KSA" stands for Kosher Supervision of America, and so on. You can look up all the symbols and their organizations here.
The Hebrew spelling of “kosher,” which appears on certain seals and certificates, looks like this:
Since kosher laws require keeping meat and dairy separate, kosher products always specify whether or not they are meat (also known as "fleishig"), dairy (also known as
"milchig" or "chalavi") or "pareve" (containing neither meat nor dairy).
Foods certified as kosher for Passover get a separate label that says “kosher for Passover” or “kasher l’Pesach.” Sometimes the label has the Hebrew words only, which look like this:
Here is an example of a kosher-for-Passover label on a product:
Not all products require a separate kosher-for-Passover certification. A full list and guide is available here.
When shopping for kosher products, it is important to remember that
just because some items produced by a company are kosher does not mean
all of the company’s products are kosher.
Why So Many Different Symbols and Agencies?
If all products with kosher symbols on them have been certified as
kosher by someone, then why do we need so many symbols? Well, because
some people only trust certain organizations to do a good job of making
sure something is kosher. For this reason, if you are buying something to bring to the home of a friend who keeps kosher — maybe as a hostess gift or because you are making a shiva (visiting a mourner) call — it is a good idea first to find out which certifications they trust. To help explain why people don’t all trust the same labels, I
consulted with Rabbi Asher Lopatin, president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School. He said that sometimes a rabbi or organization will accept a halachic (Jewish legal) leniency regarding food that others take issue with.
What’s a good example?
“While there have been some lenient opinions over the centuries
regarding gelatin,” Rabbi Lopatin said, “current Orthodox practice, at
least in the Diaspora, is to not accept gelatin from non-kosher
animals. Therefore, supervisions which do accept the leniencies of
gelatin from non-kosher animals are not acceptable to (Orthodox)
community standards.” And once you have an organization that allows for
gelatin from a non-kosher animal, the community might be nervous
accepting that organization’s supervision on any food, even if it
doesn’t contain gelatin. Think of it like hiring a babysitter. If you find out that your
babysitter has been giving your kids ice cream for dinner, you might
decide not to trust that babysitter to be in charge of your kids ever,
even if you ensure that there’s no ice cream in the house. Rabbi Lopatin brought up other concerns a community might have: “The
second issue might be that while the rabbi giving the supervision might
be a great scholar, he might not have the expertise to supervise a
complicated system which requires expertise in modern machinery and
processing systems. The third issue is that sometimes a supervision is
just not seen as rigorous enough in really watching what is going on.
There are some supervisions — local and national — where people have
seen first hand that the mashgiach [the person in charge of supervising the facility for its kashrut] is not around and that things are going on that might make the products non-kosher.” Ensuring that a product is kosher is something many people take very
seriously, so they want to be positive that the people charged with that
duty know what they’re doing, and are present consistently enough to be
sure that nothing improper is going on.
There are two more factors that differentiate among the kosher
symbols. One is money. In order for a product to be certified kosher,
the company has to pay a rabbi or kosher supervision organization to
come in and supervise. This can be very expensive, and it’s fair to
assume that when a company decides which organization they want to bring
in to certify their product, they will choose a certification that fits
within their budget. Finally, it’s worthwhile to note that all of the kosher certification
bodies are competitors with each other, and so it behooves them to
maintain firmly that their own hashgacha (supervision) is the most
trustworthy. As you might expect, a rabbi whose brother is the head of a kosher
certification body might be inclined to tell his community that his
brother’s organization is the best one out there. There can be (and have
been) all kinds of political shenanigans related to kashrut and kosher
supervision, but it’s difficult to know exactly if and when this is
going on. Most people come up with a standard policy about which symbols
they’ll accept in conjunction with their rabbi and/or community.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/ask-the-expert-kosher-symbols/?utm_source=mjl_maropost&utm_campaign=MJL&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-2446-6470
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Primeiro Templo
Found 100 meters from Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the First Temple period sealing
bears an inscription stating, ‘Belonging to the governor of the city.’
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Bob Dylan
"Gates of Eden"
Of war and peace the truth just twists
Its curfew gull it glides
Upon four-legged forest clouds
The cowboy angel rides
With his candle lit into the sun
Though its glow is waxed in black
All except when 'neath the trees of Eden
The lamppost stands with folded arms
Its iron claws attached
To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail
Though it shadows metal badge
All and all can only fall
With a crashing but meaningless blow
No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden
The savage soldier sticks his head in sand
And then complains
Unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf
But still remains
Upon the beach where hound dogs bay
At ships with tattered sails
Heading for the Gates of Eden
With a time-rusted compass blade
Aladdin and his lamp
Sits with Utopian hermit monks
Side saddle on the Golden Calf
And on their promises of paradise
You will not hear a laugh
All except inside the Gates of Eden
Relationships of ownership
They whisper in the wings
To those condemned to act accordingly
And wait for succeeding kings
And I try to harmonize with songs
The lonesome sparrow sings
There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden
The motorcycle black Madonna
Two-wheeled gypsy queen
And her silver-studded phantom 'cause
The gray flannel dwarf to scream
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey
Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden
The kingdoms of experience
In the precious winds they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what's real and what is not
It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden
The foreign sun, it squints upon
A bed that is never mine
As friends and other strangers
From their fates try to resign
Leaving men wholly totally free
To do anything they wish to do but die
And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden
At dawn my lover comes to me
And tells me of her dreams
With no attempts to shovel the glimpse
Into the ditch of what each one means
At times I think there are no words
But these to tell what's true
And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden
Its curfew gull it glides
Upon four-legged forest clouds
The cowboy angel rides
With his candle lit into the sun
Though its glow is waxed in black
All except when 'neath the trees of Eden
The lamppost stands with folded arms
Its iron claws attached
To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail
Though it shadows metal badge
All and all can only fall
With a crashing but meaningless blow
No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden
The savage soldier sticks his head in sand
And then complains
Unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf
But still remains
Upon the beach where hound dogs bay
At ships with tattered sails
Heading for the Gates of Eden
With a time-rusted compass blade
Aladdin and his lamp
Sits with Utopian hermit monks
Side saddle on the Golden Calf
And on their promises of paradise
You will not hear a laugh
All except inside the Gates of Eden
Relationships of ownership
They whisper in the wings
To those condemned to act accordingly
And wait for succeeding kings
And I try to harmonize with songs
The lonesome sparrow sings
There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden
The motorcycle black Madonna
Two-wheeled gypsy queen
And her silver-studded phantom 'cause
The gray flannel dwarf to scream
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey
Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden
The kingdoms of experience
In the precious winds they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what's real and what is not
It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden
The foreign sun, it squints upon
A bed that is never mine
As friends and other strangers
From their fates try to resign
Leaving men wholly totally free
To do anything they wish to do but die
And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden
At dawn my lover comes to me
And tells me of her dreams
With no attempts to shovel the glimpse
Into the ditch of what each one means
At times I think there are no words
But these to tell what's true
And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden
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Lou Reed
"I'm Sticking With You", Velvet Underground
I'm sticking with you
'Cos I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too
You held up a stagecoach in the rain
And I'm doing the same
So you're hanging from a tree
And I made believe it was me
I'm sticking with you
'Cos I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too
There're people going into the stratosphere
Soldiers fighting with the Cong
But with you by my side I can do anything
When we swing, babe, we hang past right and wrong
I'll do anything for you
Anything you want me too
I'll do anything for you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you
'Cos I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too
You held up a stagecoach in the rain
And I'm doing the same
So you're hanging from a tree
And I made believe it was me
I'm sticking with you
'Cos I'm made out of glue
Anything that you might do
I'm gonna do too
There're people going into the stratosphere
Soldiers fighting with the Cong
But with you by my side I can do anything
When we swing, babe, we hang past right and wrong
I'll do anything for you
Anything you want me too
I'll do anything for you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you
Oohoh I'm sticking with you
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