View from Denver
‘Do not sin excessively’
Hillel GoldbergNov 11, 2010
DO not sin excessively, scripture says (Ecclesiastes 7:1). What is that supposed to mean? It is OK to sin a little? Dont steal $1 million, but its OK to steal...
Learning to live without the voice, the face
Hillel GoldbergNov 04, 2010
LOGIC and experience say that death enters consciousness in direct proportion to age. Not necessarily so. We sent one of our sons away to yeshiva at the age of 13....
Rush job
Hillel GoldbergOct 28, 2010
I didnt know what to write about this week. All my leads didnt pan out. First I thought Id turn to my favorite wordsmith. Yogi Berra, If you ask me […]
The second coming of Orson Welles
Hillel GoldbergOct 22, 2010
The day before Halloween in 1938, Orson Welles put on a radio play, The War of the Worlds. The famous (infamous?) radio play it was all fiction convinced...
A liberal embrace of fundamentalism in Islam
Hillel GoldbergOct 14, 2010
A MOST astonishing and unnoticed development has come to the apologia for Islam. By apologia, I mean public comments by people who seem constitutionally unable to...
Grandparenting is a job
Hillel GoldbergOct 07, 2010
WE all know the stereotypes. Parents work, grandparents shep nachas. Parents discipline, grandparents hand out candy. Parents lives revolve around their children;...
Everything in immoderation
Hillel GoldbergOct 03, 2010
ISNT moderation wonderful? Well, if its compared to radical Islamists who bomb pizzerias and trade towers, or who stone people to death, then yes, moderation is...
Great Sukkos stories
Hillel GoldbergSep 26, 2010
I DON’T know who this happened to, but I am assured by the person who told me that it did happen, as he heard it first hand. It was somebodys […]
What is ‘intention’ (kavvanah) in prayer?
Hillel GoldbergSep 16, 2010
WHAT is kavvanah in prayer? Kavvanah, which literally means intention, is the magic bullet of prayer. If one prays with kavvanah, one has prayed. If not,...
The toughest part of a favor: asking for it
Hillel GoldbergSep 08, 2010
For most people, and most of the time, theres something a lot harder than doing a favor, or a chesed. Thats accepting a favor. Rightly and repeatedly, we are told...
