Shabbat HaGadol: “Being Here, Being There”
Park East SynagogueThe late anthropologist Clifford Geertz once described the great challenge of studying remote civilizations as learning to straddle between “here" - the immediate world that a scholar inhabits - and “there” -- the distant world that is being analyzed. A successful scholar is able to be simultaneously both here and there. This dialectic resonates on … Continue reading "Shabbat HaGadol: “Being Here, Being There”"