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April 21, 2015 By bethmordecai no comments.
Dear Hevreh, Hebrew is hard, I know. Though I've spent many years reading, speaking, and singing Hebrew there are many times when I just don't get it. It can feel foreign, but amazingly enough, it can also feel homey. There's something about the cadence, the sound (especially those gutteral sounds that make you sound like you're coughing up something) that speaks directly to my soul, my neshamah. In my latest piece on State of Formation "Praying in Hebrew, Speaking in Tongues," I discuss how the difficulty of understanding Hebrew makes it tough to be a language of meaningful prayer when we want to know what we're saying when we pray. As such, it's important to find language in our mother tongue[...]
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September 24, 2013 By bethmordecai no comments.
Posted on State of Formation on July 15th, 2013 Homepages: Rabbi Categories: Publications
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Posted on State of Formation on January 19th, 2013 Homepages: Rabbi Categories: Publications
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Posted on State of Formation on January 9th, 2013 Homepages: Rabbi Categories: Publications
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