March 25, 2010 / 10 Nisan 5770
March 26, 2010 at 6:56 am | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 CommentOne-Shelf-A-Day-Until-Passover-Preparation-Log
A.K.A. The Dayenu Log
D-log Motto: Okay, that’s enough for today.
Today: Thursday, March 25, 2010
10 Nisan 5770
I give a going over to the drawer for knives and sharp utensils. What if we laid out all our swords on a big world shelf and beat them into plowshares?
Stress Relief Tip:
From p. 777, Kol Haneshamah: Shabbat Vehagim, Third Edition, c. 1994, 1996, The Reconstructionist Press, Wyncote PA.
“An Appendix to the Vision of Peace / Tosefet Lahazon Hashalom
Don’t stop after beating the swords
into ploughshares, don’t stop! Go on beating
and make musical instruments out of them.
Whoever wants to make war again
will have to turn them into ploughshares first.”
- “Tosefet Lahazon Hashalom / An Appendix to the Vision of Peace,” by poet Yehuda Amichai, translated from the Hebrew by Glenda Abramson and Tudor Parfitt in “Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers.”
Spring Lookout News:
Warm wind lifted dust veils over a construction site, and tossed the heads of flowers. Gardeners were glad rain found their new seed beds.
Hard Core Treatments for Relief from Oppressive Cleaning Issues:
Think of a fire drill: Where is your exit? And where will everyone meet up once you all get out? Passover is like a fire drill, because we still have oppressive situations in our world, and we all need to be ready for life saving actions.
Go and Study:
From p. 205, “My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging,” c. 2000 by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., Riverhead Books, New York.
“Compassion begins with the acceptance of what is most human in ourselves, what is most capable of suffering. In attending to our own capacity to suffer, we can uncover a simple and profound connection between our own vulnerability and the vulnerability in all others. Experiencing this allows us to find an instinctive kindness toward life which is the foundation of all compassion and genuine service.
Ours is not a culture that respects the sick or the old of the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In embracing such frontier values we may become intolerant of human wholeness, contemptuous of anything in ourselves and in others that has needs or is capable of suffering. The denial of a common vulnerability is the ultimate barrier to compassion.”
Share your gifts with others. There is only one like you,
Amy Brookman
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The knife drawer into plowshares image struck me and reminded me, by way of contrast, of a scene in a TV show I’ve seen many times… OK, too many times. One scene in the pilot episode for Hill Street Blues very succinctly introduces life in the Hill Street precinct and maybe says something about our own attempts at examining/cleaning/changing:
The staff sergeant reads “a directive from downtown” prohibiting “bizarre or unauthorized weapons” and declaring an inspection. He then announces: “Said inspection begins now.” Police officers pull knives, guns of all sizes and sundry other obviously non-standard weapons out of their skirts, shirts, pants, etc. and plop them out on the table.
Without giving them a glance or a word, the sergeant then says, “Let’s roll,” and each person silently grabs her or his unauthorized weapon before heading into the street.
Comment by vspatz— March 26, 2010 #