As you look back on 2011 your year may have been brutal and breathtaking, or serene and bucolic. But regardless of how the last year was, every new year begs the questions: “What’s the point?” “Where am I going?” “Does my life have meaning beyond the dispassionate, inexorable cycle of another trip around the sun?”
Archive for the ‘OTC Megillah’ Category
Carnival Rides and Meaning in The New Year
January 1, 2012
Hanukkah Hassles and Christmas Chaos
December 7, 2011
Our cherished religious traditions, apart from the reality they were meant to serve, will always leave us longing.
Your Halloween Life
October 31, 2011
As long as we clutch at costumes and candy, convinced that we have everyone fooled, we place ourselves among the “healthy” who seek no help for their condition.
Fear of Fire
June 1, 2011
By nature, all of us fear the wrong things leaving us to experience the deadly consequences of our own amalgams.
The Singularity
April 29, 2011
Neither the Shoah nor Yom Ha’atzma’ut are adequately explained by the psychological, sociological and historical disciplines… One singularity explains both this unique hatred and miraculous survival of our people.
Lambs
April 18, 2011
His own heart torn, Betzalel lifted his son’s face until they were eye-to-eye and gently whispered, “My son, he must die for your sake and mine.”
Coincidence?
March 2, 2011
Were the events of Esther’s life mere coincidence or Einstein’s coincidence?
Don’t Wait to Be Pushed
February 4, 2011
I stand immobilized by fear at the edge of some obedience whose outcome is uncertain, whose execution is distasteful, or too much effort, or simply not what I feel like doing at the moment.
Hope for A Happy New Year
December 24, 2010
Our five senses are tuned perfectly for acquiring accurate insight into the matter that makes up our lives, but are totally inadequate for discerning why our lives matter.
Hanukkah’s Irony
November 26, 2010
“…they expose our preoccupation with the temporal and material in celebration of a holiday dedicated to the surpassing satisfaction of the eternal and spiritual.”
