Week Kavannah: Daat.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Bridge Between Mind and Heart<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Chokhmah (Wisdom\/Inspiration) is a\u00a0seed<\/b>\u00a0and Binah (Understanding\/Analysis)\u00a0 is the\u00a0soil<\/b>\u00a0that develops that seed into a plant,\u00a0Da\u2019at<\/b>\u00a0is the\u00a0nervous system<\/b>\u00a0that carries the vital life force from the brain to the rest of the body. It is the point of transition from \u201cthinking\u201d to \u201cbeing.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n One brief shining: Thresholds, liminal spaces, liminal moments like dusk and dawn, a babies first breath, that moment when liking turns to loving, when a thought passes into understanding and action, like death on a cold Evergreen night when it came for Dick Arnold.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Rabbi Jamie’s dad died Monday night. He went to sleep around eight p.m. and when Ellen, his wife, went to check on him he was cold. Dick’s death has hit the congregation hard.<\/p>\n Dick, as Tara noted, lived in the back ground. A master carpenter, a licensed consulting psychologist, and an accomplished golfer, Dick specialized in showing up. When shelving needed putting up. When Tara needed help working with drywall. When LGBTQ+ youth needed a psychologist.<\/p>\n Had we gone to Israel on our ill-fated 2023 trip Dick and I would have been roommates. His funeral takes place Thursday at 11:00. Shiva minyan Thursday night.<\/p>\n Just a moment: Our President, denied the “Noble” prize, admitted in a letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister that he could now think about things other than peace, like seizing Greenland.<\/p>\n I can’t improve on this Robert Reich piece sent to me by his Substack:<\/p>\n “Friends,<\/p>\n It could be a Monty Python skit from forty years ago: A demented U.S. president demands the Nobel Peace Prize (which he initially spells \u201cNoble\u201d), after converting the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War and abducting the president of a Latin American country by force.<\/p>\n When he doesn\u2019t get the Prize, he says he\u2019s no longer in favor of peace and decides to invade Greenland. When Greenland refuses him and Denmark and the rest of Europe make a fuss, he goes into a rage, raises tariffs on Europe (which are really import taxes that cost Americans dearly) and threatens war on NATO. The president of Russia is delighted.”<\/p>\n A five-year old playground bully who will brook no dismissal of even his most outlandish wishes and wants, red tie guy had better retake that cognitive test followed by one gauging e.q.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yule and the Moon of Deep Friendship Wednesday gratefuls: Tom recovering. Dick Arnold. Ellen. Jamie. MVP group. Death. Kate, always Kate. Jon. Regina. Pronoia. Shadow and her treat ball, her bones. Mussar. The Dog run. Our Snowless Winter. Christopher and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Hafar from afar. Mary down under with animals that attack. Murdoch. Annie … Continue reading Greenland<\/span> ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wildwood-ten-of-arrows.jpg\")
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