reishis cOwni

We’re here to talk.

Because there’s interesting, oh that’s cool, I guess I’ll listen; and then there’s interesting, my life depends on this conversation. Where we go right now will change how I relate to the world, what I know and who I am.

Some conversations feel as if they really matter, no? That’s how we can get angry over ideas, excited or warmed by suggestions, comforted by some observations, terrified by some possibilities, offended by some implications. Some ideas matter, because they really will change us.

And the saddest thing in the world is when a conversation is aborted because it’s going too far beyond my comfort zone. The Gemara in Sanhedrin says that whoever holds back words of Torah, even babies in their wombs curse him. And by babies, they say, the mean Nations, infant cultures and unborn countries, curse the ones who hold back truth from being spoken into being.

Part of communication is sensitivity, the willingness to hear the response and engage That– and the freedom to let things go, not respond, but always the responsibility is to understand. To take in.

Named after the portents of finite wealth, of adjusting through wisdom to the lack coming now while we have everything, I’d like this to be a chance to share and air, everything from the local communal to the infinitest possible cosmic, announcements and arguments, decrees, manifestoes and– well, whatever’s important to you to me to us– the three that are one.

Feel welcome to express. Try to mean what you say, or at least care about it if you don’t. Try to keep it interesting, or don’t. This site is to be a temple, and we will burn it down if we need to to get free. R’Nachman says all humor comes from the chefs in the temple, slaughtering the sacred all the time. welcome home.

–yo