Tuesday July 7, 2009

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Tuesday July 7, 2009

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:10 pm

Review

On June 25
in this journal–

A Word for AntiChristmas:

Apocatastasis

“… T. S. Eliot tried to recompose,
in Four Quartets, the fragments
he had grieved over
in The Waste Land.”

— “Beauty and Desecration,”
Roger Scruton

Today’s word
(thanks to Michael Jackson)–

Tikkun

From Log24 on Nov. 12, 2005:

“‘Tikkun Olam, the fixing of the world,’ she whispers. ‘I’ve been gathering up the broken vessels to make things whole again.'”

— Miriam in Bee Season

“Tikkun Olam, the gathering of the divine fragments, is a religious activity…. How do we work for the repair of the world? If we live in a humpty dumpty world, how do we get it all put back together again?”

— A Sunday Sermon
    for Yom Kippur
    by the Rev. Joshua Snyder
    on Oct. 5, 2003
    [See also Log24 on that date.]

“… the tikkun can’t start until everyone asks what happened– not just the Jews but everybody. The strange thing is that Christ evidently saw this.”

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