Link to PBS website with videos,info...and extended footage here.
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Preview and fisrt few episodes below
Recommended by OT scholars, including Peter Enns....and including..uh, Stephen Colbert! Schama interviewed by Colbert below:
Showing posts with label conversos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conversos. Show all posts
Monday, April 20, 2015
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
añoranza/sehnsucht
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"some rabbis who work with conversos talk about a feeling of
añoranza, a yearning or longing to be whole, a universal quest." -Doreen Carvajal,
Wikipedia:
Sehnsucht (German pronunciation: [ˈzeːnzʊxt]) is a German noun translated as "longing", "yearning", or "craving",[1] or in a wider sense a type of "intensely missing". However, Sehnsucht is difficult to translate adequately and describes a deep emotional state. Its meaning is somewhat similar to the Portuguese word, saudade, or it can be equally translated as theRomanian word dor. Sehnsucht is a compound word, originating from an ardent longing or yearning (das Sehnen) and addiction (die Sucht). However, these words do not adequately encapsulate the full meaning of their resulting compound, even when considered together.[2]Sehnsucht represents thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alternative experiences. It has been referred to as “life’s longings”; or an individual’s search for happiness while coping with the reality of unattainable wishes.[3] Such feelings are usually profound, and tend to be accompanied by both positive and negative feelings. This produces what has often been described as an ambiguous emotional occurrence.[citation needed]It is sometimes felt as a longing for a far-off country, but not a particular earthly land which we can identify. Furthermore there is something in the experience which suggests this far-off country is very familiar and indicative of what we might otherwise call "home". In this sense it is a type of nostalgia, in the original sense of that word. At other times it may seem as a longing for a someone or even a something. But the majority of people who experience it are not conscious of what or who the longed for object may be, and the longing is of such profundity and intensity that the subject may immediately be only aware of the emotion itself and not cognizant that there is a something longed for. The experience is one of such significance that ordinary reality may pale in comparison, as in Walt Whitman's closing lines to "Song of the Universal".,.
...Sehnsucht took on a particular significance in the work of author C. S. Lewis. Lewis described Sehnsucht as the "inconsolable longing" in the human heart for "we know not what." In the afterword to the third edition of The Pilgrim's Regress he provided examples of what sparked this desire in him particularly:
That unnameable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World's End, the opening lines of "Kubla Khan", the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves.[5]
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Monday, September 26, 2011
"The Naked Crowd: The Jewish Alternative to Cunning Humanity"
"In this book, José Faur articulates the political dimension of Judaism, the essence of the Jewish alternative to the cunning societies of world history. As Faur describes, thousands of years ago, the Jewish nation became what Nobel laureate Elias Canetti called a "naked crowd"; a society built on transparency and inclusiveness, impervious to the attempts of would-be tyrants to control the "crowd" through mind-games, linguistic manipulation, and mass hysteria. While the Jewish people have, over the course of history, occasionally lost touch with this foundation of their society, they have never lost the dream of a truly free society for all. This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to Judaism from the perspective of the Western political tradition. The last section examines Pauline Christianity and its origins in Greek and Roman pagan thought and culture." -Jose Faur Studies.org
''Prof. Jose Faur's 'The Naked Crowd' carefully and correctly defines what is unique to the nation Israel: it is ruled by a 'Book,' the Torah, written by God and accepted by Israel. The Torah teaches the dignity of humankind that inheres in the divine image that every human shares. Therefore, following the sagacious King Solomon, demeaning a human being is a moral assault on the all-powerful, all-knowing divine Creator. Viewing Israel's Torah as a document subversive to all hierarchical societies (pagan, Christian, and some Jewish societies included), Prof. Faur finds the assault upon Israel and its 'Book' to be political and not theological. This fine monograph is a worthy introduction to the Judaism of the Written and Oral Torah, that Jewish dialectic of culture that provides the benchmark for existential authenticity in Israel.'' --Alan Yuter, rabbi, Congregation B'nai Israel, the Orthodox Congregation of Downtown Baltimore
An introduction to the differences between Western and Jewish politics. http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Crowd-Alternative-Cunning-Humanity/dp/1935104020/ == |
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