"The Wonderful Strangeness of Humans"
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A great tit (centre) and two European greenfinches pick seeds from a
withered sunflower
during snowfalls near Pilisszentkereszt, north-west
of Budapest, Hungary
28 de janeiro de 2019
Egipto
"The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat", John R. Weguelin (1886)
A priestess offers gifts of food and milk to the spirit of a cat.
On an altar stands the mummy of the deceased, and the tomb is decorated with frescoes, urns of fresh flowers, lotus blossoms, and statuettes.
The priestess kneels as she wafts incense smoke toward the altar. In the background, a statue of Sekhmet or Bastet guards the entrance to the tomb.
On an altar stands the mummy of the deceased, and the tomb is decorated with frescoes, urns of fresh flowers, lotus blossoms, and statuettes.
The priestess kneels as she wafts incense smoke toward the altar. In the background, a statue of Sekhmet or Bastet guards the entrance to the tomb.
Who knows what kind of loneliness is more agonizing:
the one which befalls man when he casts his glance at the mute cosmos,
at its dark spaces and monotonous drama, or the one that besets man
exchanging glances with his fellow man in silence? Who knows whether the
first astronaut who will land on the moon, confronted with a strange,
weird, and grisly panorama, will feel a greater loneliness than Mr. X,
moving along jubilantly with the crowd and exchanging greetings on New
Year’s Eve at a public square?
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, 1965
27 de janeiro de 2019
Dia Internacional em Memória das Vítimas do Holocausto
The Development of the "Final Solution" (Yad Vashem)
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As Rabbi Shmuel bar Naḥman says that Rabbi Yonatan says: What is the meaning of that which is written in the passage describing the splitting of the Red Sea: “And the one came not near the other all the night” (Exodus 14:20)? At
that time the ministering angels desired to recite a song before the
Holy One, Blessed be He. The Holy One, Blessed be He, said to them: My
handiwork, i.e., the Egyptians, are drowning in the sea, and you are reciting a song before Me? Apparently, God is not gladdened by the downfall of the wicked.
Sanhedrin, 39b
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For 10 years, Romeo, the last known Sehuencas water frog on the planet, led a solitary life in a conservation centre in Bolivia.
Now scientists have found him a Juliet on an expedition into Bolivia’s cloud forest.
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A white desert flower in the Wadi Rum desert wilderness south of Amman, Jordan.
The desert has been inhabited by many cultures, including the
Nabateans who left paintings and writings on some of the rocks. Bedouins
continue to live in the protected area
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An adult hare sits it out as ferocious winds whip up a spindrift on an exposed plateau in the Cairngorms mountains, Scotland
7 de janeiro de 2019
Robert Alter
The publication of Robert Alter’s "The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with
Commentary" is a landmark achievement.
Ten years in the making, it is the
first single-author literary translation of the complete Hebrew Bible.
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In 1844, the last Great Auk, a relative of puffins and razorbills, was killed on an island off the coast of Iceland
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