Half-Human Walls
09/19/21 • 16 min
We go on a bizarre halachic excursion through the sources on Sukkah building - specifically exploring the seemingly strange law: the walls of a sukkah can be made out of a person, as long as they don't know it. Knowing and not-knowing seem to be intrinsic to what a sukkah is all about...
Listen to the podcast, and check out the full source-sheet here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/348191?editor=1
Read and listen to more here, or get in touch to share your thoughts: https://58thcentury.world
We go on a bizarre halachic excursion through the sources on Sukkah building - specifically exploring the seemingly strange law: the walls of a sukkah can be made out of a person, as long as they don't know it. Knowing and not-knowing seem to be intrinsic to what a sukkah is all about...
Listen to the podcast, and check out the full source-sheet here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/348191?editor=1
Read and listen to more here, or get in touch to share your thoughts: https://58thcentury.world
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The Creation of Creation
Rebbe Nachman brings a twist to the significance of Rosh Hashana: it's celebrating the creation of the world, of course, but that's something we do every moment. We just need to do it better. Turning raw potential into actuality, taking an idea and limiting it into words, acting in the world and sometimes messing it up - that's life itself.
Welcome to read through the (abridged) texts I'm using on the sourcesheet here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/345549?editor=1
If it's helpful, last year I put together a list of ideas for celebrating Rosh Hashana alone, outside of synagogue communities. The pandemic is far from over, and maybe this is still relevant for you or someone you know.
English: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tzppvqEQUL68FPpmMM8wMkgqe2VCNNv_RLYPYY2q7aU/
German: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b848Zz4p4sM8iKzt5T__8Pp9aDCQ8UaLcaZ3-ASNDzg/edit?usp=sharing
As usual, would love to hear any thoughts or feedback from anyone listening. You can write to me through my website, 58thcentury.world
Shana tova umetuka, have a sweet and wonderful new year!
Josh
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Shmita Part One: You Must Be Kind!
It's (supposedly) the shemita year this year, the Sabbatical year, when the land rests and debts are cancelled. The deeper we look at the laws of debt release, though, the more paradoxes and contradictions we find, until we (maybe) uncover the root of all laws - to cease to exist as law at all.
Listen to the podcast, and check out the full source-sheet here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/351301?editor=1
Read and listen to more here, or get in touch to share your thoughts: https://58thcentury.world
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