Tag: Circumcision

The Baby Jesus, or: Yeshu haTinok

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An American sentence: If Christ was born on Christmas, his circumcision was held on New Year's. What's an 'American Sentence'? Allen Ginsberg, inventor of the American Sentence, felt that the haiku didn’t work as well in English. Ginsberg decided to remove the line structure of the haiku, maintaining the requirement of 17 syllables total. He… Continue reading The Baby Jesus, or: Yeshu haTinok

The skeptic’s kaddish for the atheist, 41

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A mourner's notes: Some unsolicited wisdom for the kaddish blogger: There's no way to really preserve a person when they've gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth, it's just a story. Stories are all we're ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected… Continue reading The skeptic’s kaddish for the atheist, 41