Bloodguilt
In the Jewish spiritual tradition, there is a Torah reading–a portion of the Hebrew Bible–assigned to each week. This week’s text is \Shoftim\, from Deuteronomy 16:18-21.9, focusing on prohibitions and exhortations to justice. I?m by no means a biblical literalist, but I often find the weekly text resonates with the concerns of the moment, providing a timely and useful reminder of what we are and what we might yet become.
Last weekend, for instance, I read an appalling article in the \New York Times\: This entry was posted on Thursday, August 19th, 2004 at 12:38 pm and is filed under Bush Administration, Jewish. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.