Producing content on the Web since 1995.
some sayings of ר‘משבצונה“ל
For many years I have worked hard, and struggled with mastering virtuous. Now, in addition, I’m working on becoming more virtual. This is an expression of that effort.
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השיבנו ה‘ אליך ונשובה חדש ימינו
כעוד לא היו
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ומביא גאלה…
לצאצאיהם
All photographs are by Mark Hurvitz unless they are obviously not.
The photos in the banner at the top (only a shallow sliver of a much larger photo) are either from our home or our travels and are offered for their beauty alone (though a brain-teaser for me: “Where was that?”).
st. paintings At least three colors of painted messages on the pavement. By the time there are three colors that fit within the photo, none can have any “meaning” what remains is the pattern.
3 pavements Three pavements poured next to each other (contiguous), but not at a property line.
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the numbers’ game
[Note: not all of the buttons used to illustrated this game represent the concept expressed in the numbers; some are used because they display that number.]
The children played by the shore, allowing the ball to bounce lightly on their finger tips before they popped it over to the other side of the line. Now […]
judge everyone, how?
In Pirke Avot 1:6, R. Joshua ben Perachiah says:
והוי דן את כל האדם לכף זכות
The phrase is variously translated as:
judge every man in the scale of merit
judge every man towards merit
Judge every person favorably
Give all individuals the benefit of the doubt
Judge the whole of a man to the side of merit
It is hard not to judge people. We do it […]
a candle lighting kavanah in honor of shabbat of bereishit
As our week ends, we focus on how our own lives mirror cosmic events.
Shabbat now begins.
We have completed a full week of creation.
Now we focus inward for a short time;
of what has this week consisted?
We bring to consciousness aspects of our week just passed:
Was there a project left […]
our love is here to stay
While preparing a wedding drash for this past week I learned that Ira Gershwin channeled Isaiah 54:10 in this week’s haftarah portion.
Isaiah:
For the mountains may move
And the hills be shaken,
But my loyalty shall never move from you,
Nor My covenant of friendship be shaken
Gershwin:
In time the Rockies may tumble,
Gibraltar may crumble,
They’re only made of […]
queen city of the west
When Debbie and I decided to continue our rabbinic studies at the Cincinnati, Ohio campus of HUC-JIR rather than at the New York campus, a number of our friends made fun of us. They joked that we’d spend all our time in rocking chairs on the porch of our apartment. We actually had a number […]
giving
On May Day, The New York Times published an article about how to determine how much money you should donate, suggesting that “God Knows”. The article states that “Americans gave away 2.2 percent of their personal disposable income to nonprofit groups of various sorts in 2008″. It reviewed the usual amounts suggested by various “Western” […]
purim in november
On Thursday night, November 19, 2009, Debbie and I went to see the opera Esther at the New York City Opera in Lincoln Center.
The opera, the last one by composer Hugo Weisgall is based on the biblical Book of Esther. It uses the basic storyline (with some modifications in the sequence of […]
jews and judaism in american elite culture .01
On Sunday evening, November 8, 2009 I attended “Steve Reich Talks about his Jewish Music at JMF”. I was a bit surprised (after being told to reserve my free tickets in advance) that there were perhaps fifty people in the hall waiting to hear the words of this very popular […]
I don’t know.However, I imagine it something like this
[…from the archives (with minor updating)]:
Bethami knew the way down the narrow windswept alleyways of Tiberias blindfolded
The lapping of the tiny waves of Galilee offered a constant guide. She had walked this path many times, since her earliest years, when she went with her mother to visit the rabbi. The […]
Nisan, the month of our liberation
Actually, the complete phrase is “Let My people go… that they may serve Me.” from Exodus 5:1.
It is interesting how the phrase has been used (and abused).
Exodus and Liberation
When you check the phrase in the Wikipedia you learn not only, what you had know as a child, that the phrase had been […]
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In the year 5773 May our voices reach up from the depths
to achieve a world of wholeness and peace.
Psalm 130:1b
To see the full size image and those of previous years click the graphic above.
I began creating a Web site in my head as early as August 1995 when I drafted the following
For a project I’m pursuing regarding Jewish involvement on the internet and the World Wide Web in particular, I’m interested in learning about any sites about which you may know. For example, do any rabbis have Home pages? Which synagogues or synagogue organizations have Web sites? Does Marge Piercy have a site at which you can read portions of “He She and It”? Does Howard Rheingold have a site where you can learn more about creating a Virtual [Jewish] Community? Is there a Web Camera at the Kotel? In the Wilderness of Zin?
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¡warning! This site remains under considerable reconstruction.
Most pages should still be available in their original location. However, I will be moving the vast majority of the old site (static html pages) into the Web 2.0 (blog) site. If you experience any “link rot”, please let me know.
When I initially created this site I organized the material into what seemed to be meaningful categories (in the days before “tags”). But the time came when, it was hard to figure out which link to click if you wanted to know about Sammy Levinger’s (“who”?) death (“what”?) while fighting during the Spanish Civil War (“when”?), though we had visited Belchite the site (“where?”) of the battle where he sustained his mortal wounds. The new tools should make this process easier.
‘//rite on!
‚\\ark Hurvitz
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