About rbarenblat
I'm a student in the Aleph rabbinic program; I blog at Velveteen Rabbi (http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/), named one of Time.com's top 25 blogs. My most poetry collection is chaplainbook, (laupe house press 2006), a collection of poems arising out of hospital chaplaincy work.
Recent Comments
06/05/08 11:43 pm
That sestina is spectacular. I've been rekindling my love affair with the sestina of late -- I've posted them to my own blog (one of my Torah poems, early in Leviticus, is a sestina) and to the Best American Poetry blog -- and this one ...
05/02/08 12:53 pm
My favorite definition is this one:
Talmud: The basis for the Jewish Oral Law, a compilation of
legal opinions and debates. A: Why did he use the word “Compilation?”
Couldn’t he have just said, “The ...
05/01/08 2:33 pm
These are beautiful. I especially like the third one, in this time of changing season, in this season of counting the Omer when the questions of Pesach are still ringing in our ...
04/15/08 11:22 pm
Michael, you write:
However, after much hanging around with Renewalniks, reading their
books and articles, participating in online discussions, I eventually
came to a realization about Jewish Renewal. It is a community, ...
04/15/08 11:15 pm
I'm glad to see this dialogue happening here; I'm always pleased when there's conversation about the nature(s) of Jewish Renewal. (Full disclosure: I'm a student in the ALEPH rabbinic program, studying toward Jewish Renewal ...
"Politically pareve?" on Clinton and Obama's Apperances At This Weekend's "Compassion Forum" Show Why Politics Needs Religion
04/15/08 9:06 pm
I love this line:
Jews have lived split lives, following a kind of self-made kashrut in which politics and faith may never mix.
Brava.
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