Dear Everyone,
Here it is, a trifle late. Let's read this stuff during the next two weeks and all prepare to discuss it. This is interesting material and I am sure our discussion will be stimulating.
Because I will be out of town next week, and not in easy proximity to a computer, we will break our normal pattern and have reading BOTH weeks, rather than the second week concentrating on questions.
In vew of this, see if each or you can come up with three questions for each week's readings, and share these questions plus our comments on the blog. I will join in when and as I can.
This week - Read . . .
SOS – Chapter 3-4 (God; Israel);
Wolfson - Chapter 3-4;
Donin - Chapter 1
Next week - Read . . .
SOS - Chapter 7 (World to Come);
Wolfson - Chapter 9-10;
Donin - Chapter 21
Shalom!
Be careful out there!
Monday, October 15, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Boro Park Symposium Report
Dear Friends,
Sorry you have had to wait for this!
Thanks for praying for me this week. My presentation went very well--I elected to do an effective oral presentation (lots of eye contact, index cards held in the hand as prompts for speaking instead of head done, reading from a text). I regret that very few people if any at all are ready to make major adjustments in their world view--(turning from the theological conviction of the expiration of Torah to the demands of learning a Torah lifestyle), and from their traditions of piety (convictions about what it means to be "saved," who is and who is not, how one knows, drawing lines in the sand as to who is in and who is not, etc.). However, I do believe I delivered the message God assigned me, and of course, all participants have the paper to read and digest, if they will. I fear that more will read the paper for ammunition than will for edification.
Such is life.
Thanks again for praying. This week I will be bringing a couple of papers from the Conference for all of of us to read and digest. Good ones! I have more than we can cover, and you will find this interesting.
See you shabbat. And thanks again.
Rabbi Stuart
Sorry you have had to wait for this!
Thanks for praying for me this week. My presentation went very well--I elected to do an effective oral presentation (lots of eye contact, index cards held in the hand as prompts for speaking instead of head done, reading from a text). I regret that very few people if any at all are ready to make major adjustments in their world view--(turning from the theological conviction of the expiration of Torah to the demands of learning a Torah lifestyle), and from their traditions of piety (convictions about what it means to be "saved," who is and who is not, how one knows, drawing lines in the sand as to who is in and who is not, etc.). However, I do believe I delivered the message God assigned me, and of course, all participants have the paper to read and digest, if they will. I fear that more will read the paper for ammunition than will for edification.
Such is life.
Thanks again for praying. This week I will be bringing a couple of papers from the Conference for all of of us to read and digest. Good ones! I have more than we can cover, and you will find this interesting.
See you shabbat. And thanks again.
Rabbi Stuart
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