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Apr 19, 2024, 7:20 AM

Asking Questions without Demanding a Creed

Though most religions seem to need the presence of belief, no creed is central to the Torah’s law, questions pathway to the awe which Jews must feel towards their God, not affirming what is odd, but asking questions all the time, “credo” not the paradigm, but “mah,” which means...

Apr 12, 2024, 10:55 AM

Dark Matter and Energy

The cosmically major role played by dark matter may, according to cosmologists, be dwarfed by that played by mysterious dark energy. Due to the way they have worked in synergy a universe that’s manifest has morphed, only one fifth visible to its persona grata, the...

Apr 5, 2024, 12:57 PM

Each Man Must be True to His Selves

“Each man must be true to his selves, in the plural,” declares Zadie Smith. The problem is neural. The brain on the left side must speak to the right, in the same way that right-minded people don’t fight with those they think wrong,...

Mar 28, 2024, 9:32 AM

Why ‘Never Again’ Is Not in the Hebrew Bible

While history cannot repeat itself, it very often rhymes: allegedly a statement first made by the great Mark Twain, Its moments are recorded by a meter that records the times which don’t refrain from following this rule -- this rhyme’s refrain. The rule is one of the...

Mar 20, 2024, 9:35 PM

Esther or Easter?

While gentiles all go on their Easter parade the Jews choose to read from the book that’s called Esther; how a Jewish and Persian young princess got laid by a king who was multiple lady-molester. The gentiles once blamed the good Jews on...

Mar 13, 2024, 9:26 AM

What will follow the silence of Elijah?

Isaiah wrote a book, perhaps together with two collaborators, Deutero and Trito. No one can be certain whether he needed help from them to show the world his view of heaven and predict the future, and Elijah wrote no monographs. A silence derelict of meaning was...

Mar 8, 2024, 12:16 AM

Why Moses Broke the First Pair of Tablets

Wabi is the mystery where the words in wonder glow, sabi is the history of serenity, repose. Elegance is understated, perfect in its modesty, porcelain from which is tasted, when we serve a goddess tea, it repairing with kintsugi, recalling Moses, who repaired broken tablets whose bi-beauty to God’s first pair can be compared. Comparisons, though, can’t...

Mar 2, 2024, 9:24 AM

Tradition, Democracy of Those Who’re Dead

Democracy of those who’re dead, tradition, leads us from the grave with the thoughts that have been said to a world more old than brave, for aided by democracy of ghosts which to the past can bind us, and horrors of hypocrisy, tradition stands undead behind...

Feb 23, 2024, 2:06 PM

Human Predators

Human beings are the most ubiquitous predators on earth. Although I’d rather that they weren’t hunters, which is quite iniquitous, but only ate the food that they can gather, the die is cast, for long ago the Rubicon was crossed, and human beings now...

Feb 15, 2024, 10:35 AM

Maimonides and Spinoza

I wonder whether if Maimonides had lived after Spinoza died, philosophers would have considered his extremely puzzling Guide For the Perplexed to be influenced less by a Greek goy called Aristotle than this descendant of Marranos, model for the nesher godel. Instead of wondering how much...

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About Me

Gershon Hepner is a poet who has written over 25,000 poems on subjects ranging from music to literature, politics to Torah. He grew up in England and moved to Los Angeles in 1976. Using his varied interests and experiences, he has authored dozens of papers in medical and academic journals, and authored "Legal Friction: Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel." He can be reached at gershonhepner@gmail.com.