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Sep 30, 2006
Excelent anthology of quotes, stories, customs
2 of 3 found this helpful I bought my copy for a quarter at a garage sale -- best 25 cents I ever spent. The Yom Kippur Anthology is just that -- an excellent reference on this holiday from many perspectives. Starting with the biblical and Talmudic texts about Yom Kippur, it proceeds through various literary references, commentaries by rabbis and laypersons, short stories, customs around the world, historical anecdotes, etc. A great book that I return to year after year.
Apr 04, 2008
Great little simulation game played in real time
1 of 1 found this helpful This game is slow and relaxed -- no shooting, no bashing things, and no voting people off the island, either. Just interesting activities happening at a nice mellow pace. The story line is simple: A group of villagers flee their island home because of a volcano, and they settle on a new island. When they arrive, there are some broken down huts, stone ruins, neglected fields, a clogged well and a beach full of shipwrecked debris. The only food source at this point is a berry bush -- and you have to teach your villagers how to forage it. (Pop-up hints tell you how as you go -- and click the mask at the bottom of the screen for more hints.) Once they have enough food, they can set about fixing things up. You train then to become builders, healers, scientists and farmers (although everybody can do some of everything if necessary.) You help decide who does what, but you soon find out that your villagers develop minds of their own! They earn tech points as they work and explore, which enables you to buy the different skill levels for the whole village. Eventually they learn to garden, fish, build more complex projects -- and more. One interesting aspect is that the game "runs" even with the computer off. That is, time passes as if you were playing (it must be linked to the computer clock somehow) so you can go to bed with somebody holding a baby, and wake up to fnd that the kid is a teenager, etc. Or, if you prefer to witness all the events as they happen, you can pause the game before you shut down your computer, and it will pick up where you left off last time. Simple as this game seems at first, it has a pretty good level of random intelligence and gets more complex to keep you interested. You never know what your sim-villagers will be up to next!
Sep 12, 2006
Very readable intro to Jewish mystricism & spirituality
4 of 5 found this helpful This book, subtitled "The Way of the Jewish Mystic," is a reprint of a classic that had a tremendous influence on Jewish spirituality seekers in the 1970s. Like so many Jews of that era, Perle Epstein (now Besserman) began her own search among the teachers of Eastern religions. After writing on Buddhism and Zen, she decided to explore the mysticism of her own Jewish background -- known as Kabbalah. Although it is hard to believe nowadays, there was almost nothing about Kabbalah available in English at the time. Epstein met with and interviewed many of the major kabbalah teachers of her day, in both Israel and the USA. The result was this excellent introductory book. It's especially good for people who are coming at kabbalah from the perspective of Eastern philosophies, because she draws parallels between the ashrams of the East and some of the historical Jewish spiritual communities, such was the group gathered around Rabbi Isaac Luria in Safed, Israel in the 16th century (which Epstein calls a "Jewish Shangri La.") . Her writing style is clear and straight forward, focusing on techniques rather than academe. Some readers might find it somewhat dated, in that it has a certain "hippie" feel to it, but I still recommend it as a basic introduction