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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don’t?
It is often hard to know whom to trust.
Each of the following buttons were sold as novelty items. The first suggesting we trust Bernard Madoff is very sad. The second is intended for fun.
I’ve never worn the first.
The other I wear at rabbinic conventions.
a shonda!
Date:
2009
Size:
5.7
Pin Form:
clasp
Print Method:
celluloid
Text
A SHONDA!
TRUST
trust me, i’m a rabbi
Date:
2010
Size:
3.81
Pin Form:
clasp
Print Method:
celluloid
Text
TRUST ME, I’M […]
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 […]
from prayerbook to leaflet
I have been involved in writing and distributing leaflets at least since 1966 when our family composed a leaflet [text] we distributed in front of our congregation’s Yom Kippur observance calling attention to the war in Vietnam.
The Hurvitz Family’s Yom Kippur Leaflet calling for an end to the war in Vietnam (1966)
During the […]
[A slight variant of this page will appear here 10 times. In each the text will remain essentially the same. However, I will add a link to a new “survey” each time.]
I have written elsewhere, that I came to the rabbinate out of “polity” not “piety”. My involvement was as a community organizer.
Nonetheless, I recall sitting one Yom Kippur day in the […]
[A slight variant of this page will appear here 10 times. In each the text will remain essentially the same. However, I will add a link to a new “survey” each time.]
I have written elsewhere, that I came to the rabbinate out of “polity” not “piety”. My involvement was as a community organizer.
Nonetheless, I recall sitting one Yom Kippur day in the […]
[A slight variant of this page will appear here 10 times. In each the text will remain essentially the same. However, I will add a link to a new “survey” each time.]
I have written elsewhere, that I came to the rabbinate out of “polity” not “piety”. My involvement was as a community organizer.
Nonetheless, I recall sitting one Yom Kippur day in the […]
[A slight variant of this page will appear here 10 times. In each the text will remain essentially the same. However, I will add a link to a new “survey” each time.]
I have written elsewhere, that I came to the rabbinate out of “polity” not “piety”. My involvement was as a community organizer.
Nonetheless, I recall sitting one Yom Kippur day in the […]
[A slight variant of this page will appear here 10 times. In each the text will remain essentially the same. However, I will add a link to a new “survey” each time.]
I have written elsewhere, that I came to the rabbinate out of “polity” not “piety”. My involvement was as a community organizer.
Nonetheless, I recall sitting one Yom Kippur day in the […]
[A slight variant of this page will appear here 10 times. In each the text will remain essentially the same. However, I will add a link to a new “survey” each time.]
I have written elsewhere, that I came to the rabbinate out of “polity” not “piety”. My involvement was as a community organizer.
Nonetheless, I recall sitting one Yom Kippur day in the […]
[A slight variant of this page will appear here 10 times. In each the text will remain essentially the same. However, I will add a link to a new “survey” each time.]
I have written elsewhere, that I came to the rabbinate out of “polity” not “piety”. My involvement was as a community organizer.
Nonetheless, I recall sitting one Yom Kippur day in the […]
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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?
More
¡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 |
