Wanderer's Guide to Mishkanese
Art
Assimilation
Avodah Zara ("Idolatry")
Chosen
Consumerism, and "Consumer Choice"
Exegesis / Maggidut
Fundamentalism A Jewish scholar who I admire wears a black hat to the Orthodox shul around the corner. A black hat and suit and a white shirt: black and white like the world so many of our co-religionists see (or pretend to). But if you look closely, you see that his hat is not black at all. It is actually navy blue, and he means it.
Jerusalem
Midrash
Miracle
Modern Mishkan The place/way/experience we are trying to define in this work. The realization (B"H) in our time of the Biblical Mishkan (a.k.a. "Tabernacle"), which is the dwelling place, built by chosen people in the wilderness, as an invitation to the Shekhinah (Divine Presence -- same Hebrew root as "Mishkan").
Ownership
Rage
Religious What kind of Jew are you? The available labels and affiliations are too political, too superficial, and too narrow. We're interested in religious Judaism, to pursue Covenantal responsibility and understanding with all of our faith, intelligence, strength, and love. Religious Judaism is the practice of embodying the ongoing Revelation of Torah -- a discipline toward greater intimacy with G!d and each other (and ourselves). There are many Jews, in a real variety of synagogues (and other places) who are engaged in this holy work.
Self
Shelter
Slavery
Torah G!d's specific Revelation to the people Israel. Every dimension of the eternal event of Sinai. In all of its forms, it is, like its Author, echad: one, unified, sufficient.
Urbanism
Whole Mishkan Catalog An ongoing process of collecting visions, blueprints, tools, technologies, and experiences for use in building the Modern Mishkan, in the spirit of Stewart Brand's (in)famous Whole Earth Catalog.
