Author / Mira Amiras
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rethinking gan eden
So, okay—I’m no biblical scholar. And my language skills need a major overhaul. And my ex- pushed me into it. And so I’ve found myself for over a year now caught in…
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tali, trauma, and the end of the world
Tali’s fear of the shattering of the world is taken from Jewish teachings that the world is indeed broken and that our job, called in Hebrew tikkun olam, is to put it…
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the back story
For my father, Seymour Fromer z”l When I was a child, my father gave me a book. It was about the Aleph-Bet letters, and how they lived. In it the letters each had…
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the stones I cannot place
My mother’s ‘passing’ has crippled my writing. And apparently that’s not all. It would be unfair to blame her, per se, because that would be rude. But I’ve had a sneaking suspicion…
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secrets of the tzaddik
He wanted it spelled ‘poppa’ not ‘papa.’ He was definitive about that, but not about much else. I always wondered why. It seemed anachronistic, that spelling, but maybe that’s the point. He…
