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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…

  • 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…

  • An Event

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  • in the beginning…

    In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth… In her head, the letters swirled…  Before the beginning, was the alef-bet…  Mira Z. Amiras’s Malkah’s Notebook starts there—in the beginning, before the beginning,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…