I thought I'd offer quick summaries and links to all the High Holy Days posts we've run here on Winds this year. As we start the new year of 5765 and face the Day of Atonement, I hope they prompt some smiles, understanding, and reflection:
- Everything I Needed to Know I learned from the Road Runner. Wile E. Coyote cartoons as spiritual material? Believe it! Rabbi Brody & Joe Katzman explain.
- Yosemite Sam's Comeuppance. Ah yes, those busybodies who always seem ready to pull out the spiritual pistols in anger and start a'shootin. One wise soul lapses into this behaviour and gets a big lesson - but has the grace to acknowledge it.
- The Barber of Sayvel. How can there be a G-d when there's so much suffering in the world?
- True Repentance. Even the angels of heaven need to read blogs these days.
- Popeye & Bluto in NYC. A neighbourhood feud needs to end before the High Holidays do. But how? Rabbi Brody has a plan, but his secret ingredient isn't spinach - it's spin.
- Rosh Hashanah for Everyone! A Muslim explains what she has learned from the High Holidays.
- Zen Judaism Humour. "Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?"
- The Angel of the Yangtze Bridge. Chen Si has saved at least 42 people from certain death. How? By noticing that they "walk without spirit." Who are you an angel for?
- Kol Nidre: Love and Fear. Amidst the awe of this day, remember Maimonides' words - and Rabia's, too. Remember, too, the story of the Russian Kantonist who lived them.








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