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[leftyjew]

Judaism, China, politics, the environment, peace, music. How do I weave all of those and the random threads and buttons i pick up along the way into my quilt? Judaism and China seem to conflict, but HaShem put both interests in me, so there must be a way to resolve that. Judaism seems to conflict with a lot of things I'd like to do (flirting is fun, so is intellectualizing religion, and bacon is yummy) but i think that it is something to give me some guidance and help me to weave these things together. HaShem can be my cloth. Ok, that's idealistic. Right now I'm still in the Edomite diaspora of body, mind and soul, and it'd be nice to spin the dreidle (a symbol of diaspora)to get back (make the separating square a unifying circle), but that takes time. it's a big dreidle, and i've been stuck on Hey (HaKol - total diaspora) for a long time. my passions for tikkun olam seem to trump my passion for HaShem, and my rationality overtakes my soul (damn Greeks...read Gandhi's critique of Paul sometime - he really doesn't like him). Ok, anyway, studying will help. Passing college should help, too (so at least I can earn money to eat and study) so i should write my paper. wonder where this road will lead.....

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[chefdave.livejournal.com]

read you on bond007kittys friends list..... hmmmmmmm... you want olam habo or olan hazeh? yetzer tov or yetzer horah. take em all and combines see what you come up with!

[leftyjew.livejournal.com]

not a bad idea. sometimes harder to do than it seems, though. that's where the challenge lies i guess