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Entries by Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman from 09/2011

Our Deeply Rooted Need to Mark Time

| Posted 09.14.2011 | Religion
Read More: Time, Jewish New Year, Judaism and Time, Marking Time, Consciousness and Time, Holiday, September 11 Anniversary, Decade After 9/11 - Remembering, Sacred Time, Jewish Calendar, Judaism, Religion News

From the 10th anniversary of 9/11, to the beginning of the Jewish year of 5772, to the ways we observe birthdays and anniversaries, there are some moments that call for ritualized recognition.

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Do We Create Our Own Morality?

| Posted 09.20.2011 | Religion
Read More: Learning, David Brooks, Education, Morality, David Brooks Morality, Moral Relativism, Teaching Morality, Moral Individualism, Ethics, Religion News

Moral education needs to join in the major educational shift toward a focus on the learner rather than on the teacher. Every teacher knows that what we teach and what our students learn are two very different things.

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Memory Is Not About The Past. Memory Is About The Future

| Posted 09.29.2011 | Religion
Read More: Joshua Foer Memory, Yom Kippur, Judaism and Memory, Memory and Jewish Ritual, Judaism, Rosh Hashanah, Memory, Baal Shem Tov on Memory, Religion News

The question of Rosh Hashanah is: How do we improve our memory? Not to be able to store more information, but to strengthen that link between past, present and future.

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