Fri, Jul 25, 2008

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Last logged in: Apr 14, 2008
Comments: 28
Friends: 3
Blog Posts: 3
Age, Status: 22, Single
School:
California State University Northridge, Modern Jewish Studies Major, California State University Los Angeles, Philosophy Major
Interests:
Baking challah, reading, sleeping, and letter writing.
Currently reading:
Walden by Henry David Thoreau<br />
Currently listening:
Some Israeli radio station
Currently watching:
Don&#39;t watch, do!

About Dov Akiva Isaac

Dov loves Jerusalem, even if a decent pastrami on rye cannot be found anywhere.

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Well, I think that the point is to prevent confusion and unease.  I've heard of putting out the packaging of a parve product that might be confused with either dairy or meat where it'll be easily seen to reassure people that a meal is ...
The Rabbis were actually quite aware that a solar year is actually slightly more than 365 1/4 days.  They were living in Bavel which had the best astronomers in the world at the time.  They just assumed that the messiah would come before it ...
Sometimes it scares me how religious I have become, but then I remember that I am a hard-core evolutionist just as much as I believe that the earth rotates around the sun.  We weren't created physically in the image of God, rather we are the ...
"FSM is useful for mocking religion in a certain way." Really is it a mockery of religion or a mockery of the way religion is abused so that it will be given a free pass when it comes to the epistemological quest?  Bobby ...
Well, it is Chicago, where it is considered perfectly kosher to be corrupt.But seriously, I think that both the mashgiach and the bread company are at fault.  The mashgiach should be reported to his organization for extorting the bread ...
10/23/07 3:34 pm
Are the forms that Mailer considers ugly or misshapen really mistakes or actually really well suited for their environments?  Only a life form that comes into being not suited for its environment could be called a mistake, but it wouldn't ...

Recent Blog Postings

Thinking about Kaplan

Last night I was arguing with my mother about Kaplan. I manage to convince her that Kaplan’s analysis of God in The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion was the only justifiable way to understand God in a modern context. This was no easy feat, considering that she is a very traditionally pious woman and it was done through instant messenger. For Kaplan, God cannot be understood in the modern context as a supernatural being. The universe is simply the way that it is; there is no divine purpose nor was it created by


The Shush Patrol

I figured that I would make my first blog post about something I found quite amusing, but also a little depressing. 

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/898468.html