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		<title>Forwarding</title>
		<link>http://jbooks.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/forwarding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yosef-Meir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to invite my  readers to visit my main blog, A Freiburger Yid, to get information about the books I have read, or am reading at the moment.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7761089&amp;post=68&amp;subd=jbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not dead&#8230; dormant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yosef-Meir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog (and the others I am responsible for) have been quite quiet for a while. They are not dead&#8230; they have only been dormant. Watch out for more &#8211; they will be back ! Yaakov-Meir<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7761089&amp;post=65&amp;subd=jbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel P. Huntington: &#8220;The Clash of Civilizations&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yosef-Meir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are German, French and Portuguese editions of this work. I have decided now to read Samuel P. Huntington´s famous book in parallel to my study of Rabbi Klein´s Guide. So much has been written about that book, that I just had to read it. I plan to share my thoughts about it once I´m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7761089&amp;post=61&amp;subd=jbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yosef-Meir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been intensively reading (or, better, studying) Klein´s Guide in the last days. It is an amazing amount of information to which I will certainly come back to. At the same time I am wondering what should I read next on non-Jewish subjects. I am definitely not in the mood for fiction at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7761089&amp;post=59&amp;subd=jbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gems for the Day: the higher goal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yosef-Meir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious experience (&#8230;) it is not a thing that imposes itself on man but a spiritual presence. What is retained in the soul is the moment of insight rather than the place where the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7761089&amp;post=57&amp;subd=jbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Klein: Guide to Jewish Religious Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yosef-Meir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am now reading Rabbi Isaac Klein´s A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice . There are no French, German, or Portuguese editions of this book. It is a detailed guide to Jewish religious life according to the Conservative (Masorti) movement.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7761089&amp;post=51&amp;subd=jbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gems for the Day: Thinghood</title>
		<link>http://jbooks.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/gems-for-the-day-thinghood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yosef-Meir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thing is a category that lies heavy on our minds, tyrannizing all our thoughts. Our imagination tends to mold all concepts in its image. (&#8230;) Reality to us is thinghood, consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us a a thing. Source: A.J. Heschel, The Sabbath, p.4<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7761089&amp;post=49&amp;subd=jbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gems for the Day: Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yosef-Meir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be adding here on a (more or less) daily basis short quotes from the books I am reading, or those I pick up somewhere else. In the latter case, I will obviously provide you with the source. I came up to this idea when reading Heschel´s small great book on the Shabbat. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7761089&amp;post=41&amp;subd=jbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;American Colonies&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yosef-Meir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have decided to publish on this blog books with non-Jewish content that I am reading, as well. History is one of the subjects that interests me most. World history is long, and there are dozens of countries whose individual history I feel attracted to. And since life is short, and the available time that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7761089&amp;post=45&amp;subd=jbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heschel: &#8220;The Sabbath&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jbooks.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/heschel-the-sabbath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 23:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yosef-Meir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am now reading Abraham Joshua Heschel&#8217;s &#8220;The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man&#8221;.. The French edition appeared under the title &#8220;Les Bâtisseurs du Temps&#8221;; the German as &#8220;Der Schabbat. Seine Bedeutung für den modernen Menschen&#8221;; and the Portuguese as &#8220;O Schabat: Seu Significado para o Homem Moderno&#8221;.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7761089&amp;post=21&amp;subd=jbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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