"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." --Voltaire
Monday, April 12, 2010
New Books
A new library book order is being prepared for Fall 2010.
Please tell the librarian about any books that you would like for the library to acquire.
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"It was eight o'clock in the morning - the time when the officers, the local officials , and the visitors usually took their morning dip in the sea after the hot, stifling night, and then went in to the pavilion to drink tea or coffee. Ivan Andreitch Laevsky, a thinn, fair young man of twenty-eight, wearing the cap of a clerk in the Ministry of Finance and with slippers on his feet, coming down to bathe, found a number of acquintances on the beach, and among them his friend Samoylenko, the army doctor." - Anton Chekhov, "The Duel" trans. by Constance Garnett
"The practice of chopping history into convenient lengths and calling them 'periods' or 'ages' has of course its drawbacks. Strictly speaking, there are no periods in history, only in historians; actual history is a smoothly flowing continuum, a day following a day. And even when hindsight enables us to cut it through at a critical point, there is always a time-lag and an overlap." -- E.R. Dodds, Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine
Letter from Sylvia Beach to Ernest Hemingway, June 8, 1931:
"Dear Hemingway,
I am very anxious to ask you advice about a matter concerning Joyce—wasn't it stupid of me not to think of it when you were here! Would it be possible for you to find a minute in the short time you are in Paris to call me up or drop in again. Never mind if you can't manage it. I called up Hadley's apartment but she was out. Yours affectionately, Sylvia"
[in the previous Halakhah, Rambam stated that matters of sanctity -i.e. words of Torah - may not be said in a bathhouse or Beit haKissei, even in another language...]
5. It is permissible to speak about mundane matters in *Lashon haKodesh* (the Holy Tongue - Hebrew) in a Beit haKissei.
Similarly,one may say *kinnuyim* (cognomens for God), such as *Rahum* (Merciful One) and *Hanun* (Gracious One) and *Ne'eman* (Trustworthy One) in a Beit haKissei.
However, it is forbidden to say those unique Names - which are the Names which are not to be erased - in a Beit haKissei or in an old (already used) bathhouse.
However, if a situation arose where he had to prevent his fellow from violating a prohibition in a bathhouse or Beit haKissei, he does so, even in Lashon haKodesh and even [by saying] holy matters.
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"It was eight o'clock in the morning - the time when the officers, the local officials , and the visitors usually took their morning dip in the sea after the hot, stifling night, and then went in to the pavilion to drink tea or coffee. Ivan Andreitch Laevsky, a thinn, fair young man of twenty-eight, wearing the cap of a clerk in the Ministry of Finance and with slippers on his feet, coming down to bathe, found a number of acquintances on the beach, and among them his friend Samoylenko, the army doctor." - Anton Chekhov, "The Duel" trans. by Constance Garnett
"The practice of chopping history into convenient lengths and calling them 'periods' or 'ages' has of course its drawbacks. Strictly speaking, there are no periods in history, only in historians; actual history is a smoothly flowing continuum, a day following a day. And even when hindsight enables us to cut it through at a critical point, there is always a time-lag and an overlap." -- E.R. Dodds, Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety: Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine
Letter from Sylvia Beach to Ernest Hemingway, June 8, 1931:
"Dear Hemingway,
I am very anxious to ask you advice about a matter concerning Joyce—wasn't it stupid of me not to think of it when you were here! Would it be possible for you to find a minute in the short time you are in Paris to call me up or drop in again. Never mind if you can't manage it. I called up Hadley's apartment but she was out.
Yours affectionately, Sylvia"
--The Letters of Sylvia Beach, ed. Keri Walsh
Rabbi Yitzchok Etshalom
Kriat Shema 3:5
[in the previous Halakhah, Rambam stated that matters of sanctity -i.e. words of Torah - may not be said in a bathhouse or Beit haKissei, even in another language...]
5. It is permissible to speak about mundane matters in *Lashon haKodesh* (the Holy Tongue - Hebrew) in a Beit haKissei.
Similarly,one may say *kinnuyim* (cognomens for God), such as *Rahum* (Merciful One) and *Hanun* (Gracious One) and *Ne'eman* (Trustworthy One) in a Beit haKissei.
However, it is forbidden to say those unique Names - which are the Names which are not to be erased - in a Beit haKissei or in an old (already used) bathhouse.
However, if a situation arose where he had to prevent his fellow from violating a prohibition in a bathhouse or Beit haKissei, he does so, even in Lashon haKodesh and even [by saying] holy matters.
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