Torah Talk: Sexual Utopia In Power (10-1-17)

Oct. 1, 2017: http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=117801 Torah Talk resumes today after the Yom Kippur holiday and just before the beginning of the Sukkot festival.

* I was reading Shalom Aleichem stories over Yom Kippur. In “A Yom Kippur Scandal,” he writes: “…a Jew is not a thief by nature. That is, he may be a thief, but not the sort who will climb through a window or attack you with a knife. He will divert, pervert, subvert and contravert as a matter of course; but he won’t pull anything out of your pocket.”

* Friend: “I want to talk about spiritual/religious authority–how we recognize it. By miracles? By revelation? Otherwise?”

* Lefty friend: “I try to keep up friendships with Trump supporters, or at least frenemyships across the divide of our mutual incomprehension. What troubles me the most about our conversations is their conviction that mainstream media — and therefore a conventional understanding of reality — cannot be trusted. This is a deep-seated problem of epistemology which will survive Trump.”