Remember, sometimes you have to look beyond the weirdness. It's like the temple in ancient Jerusalem. If you went there, you'd see oxen being slaughtered and all sorts of things. But look beyond the w...
Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
I know we’re missing out on some potential Abe Lincolns because they’d look gawky and gangly on TV.
Back pain is the single most common reason people visit the doctor.
Will try to find the original intent of the biblical rule or teaching and follow that to the letter.
I've rarely said the word Lord, unless it's followed by of the Rings.
Year hasn’t been observed since the time of the Temple (The Second Jewish Book of Why, p. 262). The Sabbath year is still observed in some form, but only in Israel (ibid., p. 320). DAY 44 I first lear...
To properly engage in magical thinking, I find you have to think of every possible ghastly scenario. That's the only way you outsmart fate.
The whole Bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man, says Greenberg. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relat...
The pedometer doesn’t just spur us to move, though it certainly does that. It changes the way we think about movement. What was once a chore becomes a game.
The outer affects the inner.
The MRI has a repertoire of noises that resemble, in no particular order: a game-show buzzer for a wrong answer, urgent knocking, a modem from 1992, a grizzly-bear growl, and a man with a raspy voice...
The Bible is so strange, so utterly bizarre, no human brain could have come up with it.
Step back for a minute. Pretend you're from Mars. From a coldly rational point of view, pedestrian helmets aren't a crazy idea.
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.
Like God and Duane Reade drugstores, toxins are everywhere.
After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
You cannot stop religion from evolving.
This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbat...