Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking at an IT professional group in Long Island, the AITP-LI, at their monthly meeting. A nice crowd of 60 or so turned out to hear me (among others) speak about ‘What’s New in Web Technologies”. Great feedback from the event.
I’m always on the lookout for opportunities to speak [...]
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Asher Harris pointed out a most interesting literary parallel to me. In the Akedah:
- Isaac is completely innocent
- an angel of God intervenes to prevent him from being killed
- A substitute ram is found, with its horns tangled in a bush (sevach - Genesis 22:13)
Now see the Absalom story in II Samuel 17-18. Here,
- Absalom [...]
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Tamar shared with us (while she was home for Simchat Torah and fall break) a tidbit from the Mythology course she audited this past summer. A common thread in Greek and other mythologies is a cataclysmic event (war or natural disaster) that is introduced as population control, because lifespans are either very long or never-ending. [...]
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The girls and I took Sue to the Idan Raichel concert on Monday night (birthday present from my parents - Thanks Ima and Abba!). It was at a great little theater at the Jewish Heritage / Holocaust museum in Battery Park - very nice venue - as part of Daniel Pearl Music Days. The concert [...]
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(Hat tip - DovBear blog)
Should Chavah have been called Chaya? Here is Gen 3:20:
Shem ishto Chavah, ki hi hayta em kol Chai
Robert Alter notes that Chavah is similar to chivya, the Aramaic for serpent, and wonders if Chava’a name might contain an allusion to an old Mesopotamian myth in which a giant primordial serpent is [...]
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