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GNU Ghostscript
Viewing an Encapsulated PostScript recycling logo in a TeX document should have been simple enough. Instead, a blank space marked the position on the display where the logo should have appeared. A quick look through all of my LaTeX documentation, including the xdvi man page, provided no answer. There seemed to be no way for xdvi to display a TeX \special command in the dvi output; in this case, an embedded PostScript image. I considered this to be a major shortcoming of xdvi, and, of course, TeX. After all, isn't combining text and graphics on a page part of what computer publishing is all about? Why should TeX, one of the most sophisticated typesetting systems in the world, be constrained by the lack of a PostScript previewer? Or the requirement for a PostScript printer, for that matter? It is said that the longest journey begins with a single step. The journey I'm about to describe has brought me a considerable distance toward professional-quality publishing, via a utility that had been sitting quietly in a subdirectory of my /usr partition all along.
The utility is Ghostscript. GNU Ghostscript, Version 3.33, is the Swiss Army knife of graphics programs. Essentially, it's a PostScript language interpreter. More specifically, Ghostscript renders PostScript code to any bitmapped device on your system, whether it be the screen, printer, or G3 fax file. The man page says, "Ghostscript is a programming language similar to Adobe System's PostScript language, which is in turn similar to Forth." (This statement comes almost verbatim from the book: Adobe Systems, Incorporated: PostScript: Language Tutorial and Cookbook, Addison-Wesley, 1986.) Ghostscript also substitutes fonts from its own library when rendering documents if the fonts are not otherwise available, scales and rotates text, and performs any of the other typographical feats for which PostScript is famous. Despite the apparent complexity of the task, no knowledge of the PostScript language is required. For the most part, a little experimentation with the command-line options is all that's needed. Yet Ghostscript's PostScript interpreter is fully accessible.
If I want to print that EPS recycling logo at the bottom of a page of DVI output, I would insert the following commands in my LaTeX input file:
\usepackage{graphics} ... \vfil \includegraphics{recycle.eps}
Then, it is simply a matter of running the input file through teTeX, using the command line:
pslatex letter.texand then converting teTeX's dvi output to PostScript with dvips:
dvips -f <letter.dvi >letter.psThe -f command-line option tells dvips to act as a filter, reading from standard input and writing to standard output. Now, we have a PostScript file ready for printing. Ghostscript images this file in a format that's understandable to any bitmapped device on your system, whether it is a VGA display or a laser printer.
Ghostscript's command-line options are numerous. Look at ghostscript's USE.DOC file for an complete description. You can view a brief summary with the command:
gs -help | less
For example, if I want to print the file letter.ps on a Hewlett Packard DeskJet printer, I would use the command line:
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=deskjet /-sOutputFile=-\ letter.ps quit.ps >gs.outThe first option, -q, suppresses messages to the console. However, to run Ghostscript in batch mode, the -q option on its own is not enough. That's because Ghostscript uses its own PostScript code at run time to output the image.
From the command line, we define several variables, the first being NOPAUSE, which tells Ghostscript's showpage() routine not to pause after each page is output. When viewing output on a screen, it is best to leave NOPAUSE unset and let Ghostscript prompt you to view each page in turn.
Next, we set the DEVICE variable. In the example above, the output device is a HP Deskjet. Ghostscript's dictionary has output parameters defined for all the devices documented in its command-line help.
The next variable which needs defining is OutputFile. Here, we set it to - or standard output. This is the file to which Ghostscript will write its image. In most instances, however, Ghostscript provides no means for that image to be displayed. We'll get to that in a moment. Then we specify letter.ps on the command line as our target input file.
When we write a file with the pslatex command, LaTeX uses the font metrics available to it; that is, it uses Computer Modern Roman as its default font. However, the pslatex command has been implemented in teTeX so that dvips, which does the DVI to PostScript conversion, will request PostScript fonts. These fonts can be provided via either the printer or via software. In the latter case, Ghostscript produces the output image using Type 1 fonts from its own library.
Finally, we input the file quit.ps. This file is part of Ghostscript's standard library and is simply the command quit followed by a newline character. It is read into the Ghostscript interpreter just like any other input.
Emacs Tex mode printing via Ghostscript shell scripts
The section "Ghostscript as a Document Post-Processor and Previewer" of this article sounds very interesting but doesn't work. More explanation would be nice.
Re: Emacs TeX mode printing via Ghostscript shell scripts
Try to isolate the problem. Do the individual utilities run correctly from the shell prompt? Then, do the shell scripts run correctly from the shell? If they don't, then try to include the error messages. If they do, then try to include the debug output from the Emacs interpreter. Also include the version of each utility, so I can duplicate the errors produced by newer versions. Or, you can follow these procedures, and submit a patch.
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Ireland's longest river is the perfect destination for long summer evenings. Not only do you get to sample the beauty of the winding path of Ireland's rivers but this is also a very cost effective method of seeing the country. Tour operators offer a large variety of boats and guides on the best routes to take. Some operators offer interactive tours where you can pre-plan your desired route. When you dock in the many towns and villages along the way you will be exposed to the true taste of Irish hospitality.
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Final Score: (12) Michigan 42, Northwestern 24
Evanston, IL (Sports Network) - Denard Robinson threw two touchdown passes and ran for a pair of scores, as the 12th-ranked Michigan Wolverines used a strong second half to down the Northwestern Wildcats, 42-24.
Robinson overcame three first half interceptions, finishing with 290 passing yards and 117 rushing yards.
Junior Hemingway caught five passes for 124 yards for the Wolverines (6-0, 2-0 Big Ten), who scored 28 unanswered points to close the game.
Dan Persa completed 32-of-44 passes for 331 yards and an interception for the Wildcats (2-3, 0-2), while Kain Colter, Adonis Smith and Treyvon Green each had a rushing touchdown.
Northwestern held a 24-14 lead at the half, but the Wolverines thoroughly dominated the rest of the contest.
"We said what it was," said Michigan coach Brady Hoke. "We were down 10 points. We had thrown three interceptions for one reason or another, we'd had three penalties on ourselves offensively, we were not getting off blocks on the back end defensively, and that's what it was. That's kind of what we talked about, nothing more, and we talked about how we want to be as a Michigan football team."
The Wolverines opened the third quarter with an eight-play, 80-yard touchdown drive. Robinson hit Roy Roundtree for a 57-yard completion during the march and lost his shoe as he jumped into the end zone from two yards out to make it a 24-21 game.
After a Wildcats three-and-out, Robinson injured his left arm on 12-yard rush to the Northwestern one-yard line. On 3rd-and-goal, backup quarterback Devin Gardner found the end zone on a naked bootleg to give the Wolverines a 28-24 lead.
Persa was intercepted on the fourth play of the Wildcats' next drive, as Brandin Hawthorne came down with the tipped pass near midfield.
With Robinson back on the field, the Wolverines capitalized, stretching their advantage to 35-24 on Michael Shaw's two-yard touchdown plunge at the start of the fourth quarter.
The woes continued for the Wildcats. They moved to the Michigan 42-yard line on their next possession, but Jeremy Ebert fumbled and Thomas Gordon recovered for the Wolverines.
This time Michigan couldn't capitalize, as Brendan Gibbons' 37-yard field goal attempt was blocked. But the defense held, forcing Northwestern into a 4th- and-5. Jordan Kovacs then came free and ripped Persa's helmet off, resulting in a sack and a turnover on downs.
Robinson's five-yard touchdown run in the closing minutes sealed the final score and the Michigan win.
Robinson opened the game with a nine-yard touchdown pass to Steve Watson on the Wolverines' first drive, but struggled to protect the ball going forward.
"He just let the ball float a little bit on him a couple times," said Hoke. "That's fundamentals and techniques and things that we have to constantly talk about, but the kid's a competitor and he loves to play."
Colter reeled off a game-tying, 15-yard touchdown run on the Wildcats' next possession before Robinson was intercepted by Ibraheim Campbell on the Wolverines' ensuing drive.
Green took advantage with a seven-yard touchdown run, giving Northwestern a 14-7 lead.
Michigan then drove the Northwestern 16-yard line, but Campbell registered another interception to end the scoring threat.
Again the Michigan defense responded, forcing a punt. The Wolverines stuffed Smith on a 4th-and-1 later in the second quarter, before Robinson connected with Jeremy Gallon for a 25-yard, game-tying touchdown.
Smith atoned with a two-yard touchdown run to put the Wildcats on top, 21-14, and Brian Peters intercepted Robinson on Michigan's next drive, which led to a 20-yard field goal by Jeff Budzien as the first half drew to a close.
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The Chorale frequently receives invitations to sing in and around the Marylhurst community. In the past, they have performed at Reunion Weekend, the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit, the Marylhurst Symphony's holiday concert, and much more.
In recent years, Marylhurst singers have worked with visiting choral luminaries like Gwyneth Walker and Morten Lauridsen, and, each spring tread the boards in full productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, directed by world renowned expert Alistair Donkin from England. Marylhurst choirs have collaborated on concerts with choirs from Portland, Vancouver and Boise in numerous venues including The Grotto's Festival of Lights and Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.
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Why We Love "Throwback Thursday"
Every Thursday, my Facebook feed is filled with old pictures, stories of favorite memories, and statuses that remind people of "where they were X years ago." Why? Because they all end with the hashtag "#tbt"—a way for people to recall memories on "Throwback Thursday."
But why do we love "Throwback Thursday?"
Clearly, when we go through our old pictures or think back on events we experienced, we feel a wonderful sense of nostalgia—a warm, fuzzy feeling. But that just pushes the question one level back: why do we feel nostalgia? What value does does nostalgia have?
It's actually a very nuanced question. The value of simple memory is very easy to explain, especially for evolutionary reasons. If, on the African savanna, you could remember who in your tribe had helped you take down that mastodon, or which berries had made you sick when you ate them, or where that saber-tooth tiger tended to live, you would clearly have an competitive advantage over others.
But it's harder to understand why we would want to use memories to evoke certain feelings. especially because nostalgia is often very bittersweet. We smile when we remember a poignant memory, and at the same time, there's some sadness as we realize that that moment from the past can't ever be replicated.
Yet it turns out that there is some research that suggests that those feelings of nostalgia can make us better people. As John Tierney explains in a piece in the New York Times, "Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, boredom and anxiety. It makes people more generous to strangers and more tolerant of outsiders. Couples feel closer and look happier when they're sharing nostalgic memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nostalgia to literally feel warmer."
Nostalgia, in other words, helps us connect to ourselves and to others. As Dr. Constantine Sedikides, one of the pioneers in this field, remarked: "Nostalgia made me feel that my life had roots and continuity. It made me feel good about myself and my relationships. It provided a texture to my life and gave me strength to move forward."
So if that's what nostalgia truly is about, then Judaism is very much about nostalgia. We see our child become bar or bat mitzvah, and we see the past, present and future mixed together. We smell the brisket our grandmother used to make on Passover, and it brings us back to our childhood seders. We join a synagogue community and build relationships and memories that sustain us.
So "Throwback Thursday" is a perfect avenue for Judaism. It connects us to our friends and our family. It roots us. And it makes us smile.
Because in the end, our memories are what make us who we are. When we recall our fondest memories, we end up strengthening our sense of self.
And that's why we love "Throwback Thursday"—it not only lets us relive the past, it truly helps us live in the present and get ready for the future.
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Should We Really Label Our Children? Yes…Sometimes.
I've always been troubled by the "four children" in the Haggadah.
Passover is supposed to teach our children about how we can create a world filled with more justice, kindness and compassion, so where I struggle is with the idea of calling a child inherently "wise, wicked, simply or unable to ask." I had always been taught that to raise moral children, we should praise behavior ("that was very kind of you to share your toys!") and not identity ("you're such a nice person!").
So when it came to the four children, I believed that by calling them "wise" or "wicked," "simple" or "unable to ask," I would be pigeonholing them into an identity, and one that they could never grow out of. But it looks like I might have been wrong — at least when it comes to encouraging good behavior and creating good people.
On Sunday, Adam Grant (author of the book Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success), wrote an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times and shared some fascinating research on what we can do to raise ethical children. One of his main points is that at the age when children begin to create their sense of identity (about 7 or 8 years old), we should praise "who they are" in order to help them start to see themselves as good people.
In one experiment, children won some marbles, and then donated them. They were all told, "Gee, you shared quite a bit." But for some of the children, the action was praised ("that was a nice and helpful thing to do"), while for others, the character was praised ("you are a nice and helpful person").
The question was, what would happen down the road, when the children were given a new chance to be nice and helpful? As it turned out,
…[t]he children were much more generous after their character had been praised than after their actions had been.
Praising their character helped them internalize it as part of their identities. The children learned who they were from observing their own actions: I am a helpful person.
This dovetails with new research led by the psychologist Christopher J. Bryan, who finds that for moral behaviors, nouns work better than verbs. To get 3- to 6-year-olds to help with a task, rather than inviting them "to help," it was 22 to 29 percent more effective to encourage them to "be a helper." Cheating was cut in half when instead of, "Please don't cheat," participants were told, "Please don't be a cheater."
When our actions become a reflection of our character, we lean more heavily toward the moral and generous choices. Over time it can become part of us.
While we may still grapple with the Haggadah "labeling" children, the truth is, our behaviors create our identity, and our identity informs our behavior. After all, some of us relish being "the curious one" or "the provocative one," some of us are always just happy to be together with friends and family, and some of us need to be shown what we are missing.
In the end, Passover reminds us that we are free, which means that we have the freedom to choose how we act. Yet those actions will ultimately define who we are.
So with all the questions this holiday encourages, perhaps the most important one is, "What kind of person do you want to be?"
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Knock, Knock — Your Evidence is Here
The Big Bang has always evoked a sense of mystery, awe and curiosity among scientists and laypeople alike. But while the Big Bang has been well-established and well-documented in the scientific community for over 50 years, the question of how the universe expanded from "minuscule" to "gigantic" in a fraction of a second was the subject of a variety of theories. One proposed idea was called "inflation theory," and while it was theorized and generally supported, there wasn't enough evidence to determine if it was true.
Until this week.
On Monday, scientists announced that they had discovered the proposed "gravity waves" that now provide us an understanding of what happened within the the first 0.00000000000000000000000000000000001 second of the birth of the universe. To get a sense of just how important this finding is, consider that the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation — which helped us get to within 380,000 years after the Big Bang — led to a Nobel Prize for Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson.
But while the science itself is quite exciting, what's even more powerful is how scientists are responding.
One video that has been making the rounds is Professor Chao-Lin Kuo telling Professor Andrei Linde (one of the people who helped develop inflation theory) that after many decades, his theory was now supported by hard evidence:
There are several moments that are wonderful here (my favorite is when Linde and his physicist wife Renata Kallosh nearly collapse over the news), but there is one line Linde uses that borders on the religious.
"This is a moment of understanding of nature of such a magnitude that it just overwhelms," he says. "Let us hope it is not a trick. I always live with this feeling: 'What if I am tricked? What if I believe in this just because it is beautiful? What if…'" — and he trails off.
In other words, Linde had faith his theory was true, but until Kuo knocked on his door and reported his results, he didn't know if his faith would be justified. Linde had no idea Kuo was coming, so his wife thought it was a delivery and asked, "Did you order anything?" "Yeah," he answers, laughing, "I ordered thirty years ago! Finally, it arrived!"
Andrea Denhoed nicely describes how Linde must have felt at that moment:
It's rare enough for a person to have a life's work; to be able to see the validation of that work firsthand is understandably an overpowering experience. Linde might not call those years of waiting "faith," but what he describes sounds somewhat like it—the persevering hope in the face of doubt and self-questioning: "What if I believe in this just because it is beautiful?" Faith, after all, is not just a religious category, and science isn't divorced from our human capacities for aesthetic appreciation and awe.
Belief, joy, awe, curiosity — these feelings are more than religious. They are more than scientific. They are reflections of the best of what it means to be human. They are the sources from which both religion and science spring.
Indeed, while we marvel at the cosmos and the mind-blowing nature of the early universe, we also need to marvel at the human side of these findings.
Yes, it is inspiring to consider the ingenuity that has helped us get closer and closer to the first few moments of our universe.
But what truly gives me hope, what truly makes this potentially Nobel-Prize-winning discovery so special, is the unbridled joy and excitement of seeing a person's deeply-held belief system vindicated.
We may never come close to reaching Andrei Lin and Chao-Lin Kuo's intelligence. We laypeople may never truly grasp inflation theory. But we can all understand just how Andrei Linde must have felt when Kuo knocked on his door and said, "Your evidence is here."
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Derek Jeter's Legacy — "Know Before Whom You Stand"
Last week, Derek Jeter — the New York Yankees' star shortstop for almost 20 years — announced that 2014 would be his final year. Not only was he the face of the Yankees, in a poll of over 1000 baseball fans, he was seen to be "the face of baseball."
So as his incredible career comes to a close, and as both Yankee fans and baseball fans start to think about his impact, I want to highlight one Jewish value that I think exemplifies Derek Jeter's legacy: da lifnei mi atah omed – "Know before Whom you stand."
That phrase from Rabbinic literature is on top of many arks in synagogues. The idea is that if we are constantly reminded that God is watching us, we become that much more likely to consider our actions and to ensure that we behave in ethical ways.
And as a lot of research shows, if we have someone else we have to answer to — whether that is a boss, a colleague, a spouse or simply public opinion — we become much more committed to fulfilling our goals and acting more appropriately. After all, we humans are masters at rationalizing poor behavior. We can easily talk ourselves out of going to the gym ("it's raining out!"), or into cheating a little bit on our taxes ("everyone else does it!"). If we don't have anyone else to answer to, our brains are experts at creating excuses.
So even if we don't believe in all-powerful, all-seeing Deity, if we are constantly reminded that someone may always be watching and that we should "know before Whom we stand," then we act more responsibly.
That was a lesson that stuck with Derek Jeter over 20 years ago, three years before he truly broke into the Major Leagues. During spring training in 1993, Jeter and Don Mattingly (the face of the Yankees of that time) were heading back to the clubhouse from the field. The stands were empty — there were no coaches, no other players, no media. Despite that, rather than simply strolling back to the dugout, Mattingly told Jeter to run in anyway. Why? "Because you never know who is watching."
Mattingly's lesson that "you never know who is watching" inspired Jeter at the outset of his career. He would hustle, he would play hard, and he wouldn't showboat because he always knew that anything he did would be watching and scrutinized. In the end, that made him a fantastic ballplayer and a mensch of a human being.
Indeed, if we always keep in mind that someone is paying attention to our words and actions, we will make sure to bring our A game.
That was a lesson the Rabbis wanted to teach, as well. When Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was dying, his students went to visit him. They said: "Master, give us your blessing." He answered: "May you fear God as much as you fear human beings." They said: "Is that all?" He replied: "That is more than enough, believe me! Don't you know that when we are about to do something wrong, we dismiss God from our minds and hope that no human eye will see us!"
In our world today, someone is always watching. And that's why Derek Jeter was "the face of baseball." Yes, other players had better stats and may have objectively have been better players. But because he always "knew before whom he stood," he acted with respect, hard work and humility — towards himself, his teammates, his opponents and the game of baseball.
And that's a legacy we all can strive to leave, as well.
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What Makes a Home a Home?
What's the purpose of having a home? While that question might seem obvious, in fact, it raises some fascinating questions about human biology and archaeology.
In an article entitled "In Search of the First Human Home," curator emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History Ian Tattersall asks a fascinating question: what distinguishes a "home" that human beings create from a "shelter" that all animals seek?
Some scholars think that the sense of "home" began to arise not from a need for shelter, but a need for community. We humans evolved as nomadic hunter-gatherers, but around 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, we began to root ourselves in specific locations. As Tattersall notes, "The decision to stay in one place, at least part of the year, entailed a transfer of individual loyalty from the mobile social group to a particular place."
"Home," in other words, is more than just a space—as we evolved as humans, "home" became a place with deep emotional significance. And in Judaism, a "home" is more than just four walls; it, too, is supposed to be a place with a strong sense of holiness.
When I work with wedding couples, I do one session with them where they reflect on the homes in which they grew up. What did they see in their parents' relationship? What do they want to bring in from their past into this new family they are creating? What do they want to leave behind?
Then, we start to think about the future, and the Jewish home they will be creating together. I then share with them just how important the home is within Jewish thought.
For close to 1000 years, God's dwelling-place was thought to be the Temple in Jerusalem (in Hebrew, the location of the Temple Mount was Har ha-Bayit, or "The Mountain of the House"). But in the year 70, the Romans came and destroyed the Temple, leading to a huge question facing the Jewish community — will God still be with us if the Temple no longer existed?
The Rabbis answered with a resounding "yes"…although God would have to move into two new primary locations. The first, and less important one, would be the synagogue. The second, more important location where God would live would be the home. Jews were to make their home a "mikdash me'at," a Temple in miniature, or as it's often phrased, "a small sanctuary."
"So," I then turn to the wedding couple, "how will you make your home a mikdash me'at—a small sanctuary?"
With this framing, they start to think about their apartment our house in a new way. Words like "safe," "joyous," or "ours" often arise. Their sense of "home" shifts from a simple place where they keep their stuff to a place where holiness, connectedness and spirituality emanate.
As human beings, we are wired with a a desire to explore. But as the search for the first human home reminds us, we are also wired to feel a sense of rootedness and safety. We need more than a house — we need a home.
So perhaps, if we truly work on it, we can even transform our home into a true sanctuary—a place where we can find God's dwelling-place in our midst.
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The Hanukkah Calendar Quirk You Might Have Missed
Yes, everyone in the Jewish world and beyond knows today is Thankgivukkah. But there's another quirk of the calendar that Hanukkah gives us every year—and is one that very few people seem to know about.
It just so happens that the night we light the seventh candle is always also one of the darkest nights of the year. Not the shortest night, but the darkest night, owing to the new, tiny, sliver of a moon — Rosh Hodesh Tevet, the new month of Tevet, begins at sundown of the seventh night of Hanukkah. In other words, the seventh night of Hanukkah is one of two nights that are closest to the winter solstice on which there is no visible moon. (The second is Rosh Hodesh Shevat, which falls on January 1st this year.)
I highly doubt that this was an intentional placement on the calendar. It's just as "planned" as the fact that we're likely to be in the Torah portions telling the Joseph story during Hanukkah, as well—the seventh night of Hanukkah falls on this ultra-dark night of the year occurs just because a few different ways of setting Jewish time happen to coincide. But I find that there's something quite powerful in knowing that the seventh night of Hanukkah is the night that most requires us kindle lights.
On the seventh night, our Hanukkiah is almost full. With eight of the nine candles flickering in the window, we see almost all of our lights. As Hanukkah in general reminds us of holding onto hope in the most difficult times, lighting the Hanukkiah reminds us that we can bring light even in the darkest times. And on this dark night, we are using almost all of our candles to bring some light into this world.
But the key word there is "almost"—we are not bringing all of our lights. We might think that it would be great if this dark night happened to fall on the eighth night, the night on which our Hanukkiah is full and we would make a powerful statement that "Even in our darkest times, we can bring all of our lights to shine!"
Except our Hanukkiah is not full on this specific night. There's one candle missing—and that's wonderful, because it reminds us of so many other things we might forget otherwise. It reminds us that even when we bring our light, there is still darkness in this world, for our world is not yet redeemed. It reminds us that there is still more work that needs to be done, and so there is always more light we can bring. It reminds us that even in our happiest times, life is not all joyous—we all face moments of doubt and despair, and those are parts of the human condition, as well.
And yet for me, knowing that there is one "missing" light reminds me most of the words of Rabbi Tarfon—"Lo alecha ham'lcha ligmor, v'lo atah bein chorin l'hibatel mimenah," which we usually translate it as "It is not upon you to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it." Often we take that to mean, "The world is never going to be perfect – but we have to try." I read it a little bit differently. The Hebrew says, "Lo alecha"—"it is not upon you," and the word for "you"—alecha—in the singular. So I read that quote as, "It is not upon each of us by ourselves to complete the work—but we do have to do our part to the best our ability."
So the message of Rosh Hodesh Tevet, the seventh night of Hanukkah, is that there is always something we can do to help bring more light into this dark world – and there is always something we must do.
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Who Will My Daughter Be?
On October 1 (and about four and half weeks early), my wife and I welcomed our daughter into the world. It truly was every bit as incredible, miraculous, joyous and nerve-wracking as everyone told us it would be. We can't quite believe we have brought a new person into this world, and every time I hold her, or feed her at 3:30 AM, or bless her on Shabbat, when I look at her, all I can think of is, "Who will she be?"
As a rabbi, I live in a world where I regularly experience a whole lifespan in the stretch of just a few days. I hear young parents sharing their hopes for their brand-new child on one day, and hear grown children sharing their memories of their recently-deceased parent on the next. I see parents cry with joy as their children become bar or bat mitzvah, and see people of all ages cry with anger and frustration as they struggle with the challenges life throws at them.
But while I have had the title "rabbi" for a few years, I have had the title "daddy" for just under a month. Naturally, this new relationship is causing me to think of all sorts of questions: "What are things that my daughter will say and do that will crack me up? What challenges will she face in life? Will I have any chance of keeping it together when she becomes bat mitzvah? And what will my daughter say about me as a father when I am gone?"
What compounds all of these questions is the fact that right now, her communication consists of eating, sleeping, crying and pooping. Yes, I am thinking about the life she is going to lead, but the truth is, neither of us have any real idea of what she will sound like, look like or act like three months from now — let alone three, thirteen or thirty years from now.
My sister — who has a 15-year-old and a 12-year-old — once told me that, "When it comes to children, you can't interpolate out, but you can extrapolate back." In other words, when we are looking at the next generation and wondering what children will look like, sound like and act like years down the road, there simply isn't enough data to make any sort of accurate prediction. But when we look back, when we study old baby pictures or tell stories about when kids were even younger, we can often say, "You were like that from the time you were a baby."
So whether it was the way they loved to be rocked, or that they always hated being cold, or how if they had a choice between eating and sleeping, sleeping would win, there seem to be certain personality traits that stay consistent throughout life. But the only way we recognize them is when we reflect back — we can't predict them in advance.
That's why one of my favorite quotes is from Soren Kirkegaard: "Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards."
After all, we humans are meaning-making creatures. We have all sorts of things happen to us, and we don't always understand why. It is only when we can put them into a story that they start to make sense. I don't believe that "Everything happens for a reason," because that creates a very challenging theology (did God really look down on the earth and say, "I'm going to give that person cancer"?). Instead, I believe that no matter what happens, we can look back on events and try to make sense and meaning out of them. What can we learn from our experiences and how can we grow from them?
As Jonathan Gottschall explains in his book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, "The storytelling mind is a crucial evolutionary adaptation. It allows us to experience our lives as coherent, orderly, and meaningful. It is what makes life more than blooming, buzzing confusion." (102) The reason I have no idea what kind of person our daughter will be is because at one month old, her story is just beginning to unfold. Only after she has more life experience will she be able to tell it and tell us "who she is."
And there is another level to the story of who our daughter is, as well. Like most Jews, my wife and I named our daughter after people we loved who have passed away. Yes, their lives have ended, but the values that they taught us are inspiring the way we are trying to raise our daughter. And so God-willing, she will lead a life that will inspire the values of those who will come after her. Our daughter's personal story is in the context of a larger narrative.
Indeed, for all of us, while our past has guided us towards who we are, we are the ones who construct our life story. And when we see ourselves as one link in a long chain of tradition, we miraculously bring both the past and the future into each and every moment of our lives.
Because ultimately, the answer to the question "Who am I?" is a dynamic one. It is always changing. So who will my daughter be thirty years from now? Ask me in 2043. All I know is that right now, she is someone my wife and I are simply loving getting to know.
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A-Rod May Be Guilty, But We All Are Responsible
I've been a die-hard Yankees fan ever since I was 8 years old, when my dad took me to my first game right after Hebrew school one Sunday morning. I grew up in the mid-80's and early 90's, back when the Yankees had luminaries such as Mike Pagliarulo, Wayne Tolleson and Eric Plunk, and when they were closer to last place than to first.
As I grew older and they started winning, I naturally loved the Yankees who had come up through the farm system, like Bernie Williams, Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. But I also was excited about the players the Yankees brought in — people like Paul O'Neill, Mike Mussina, and even Roger Clemens. After all, they were great players who were coming to play on my favorite team.
So in 2004, when Alex Rodriguez signed with the Yankees, I was ecstatic. Yes, I had known about his tiff with Derek Jeter, and yes, I had heard he was difficult in the clubhouse, but he was the best player of his generation, and I wanted to root for him. Unfortunately, he made it difficult to do so.
A-Rod has always created a media circus wherever he went, and these latest allegations (and potential suspension) for using PEDs and obstructing Major League Baseball's investigation are, unfortunately, not all that surprising to me (or anyone else who follows baseball). But so much of what has been written about this Biogenesis scandal has been oversimplified to "A-Rod is a rich, selfish bum who cheated and so he should be kicked out."
I think the situation is more complicated than that because we have to remember that A-Rod's actions didn't occur in a vacuum.
Jim Caple of ESPN recently wrote an insightful piece entitled "Understanding A-Rod's Infractions," and he reminds us that steroid use — and indeed, cheating in general — is rarely done out of malicious intent:
Athletes don't dope because they are bad, evil people. They dope because there is a very strong incentive to do so.
Consider this…scenario: You can take a substance that might carry a slight risk to your health…but that could also make you a better player. If you take it, you might help earn yourself millions upon millions of dollars and the acclaim of fans. Your friends and teammates also will benefit from your improved performance. And you know many others in your profession are already doing so. In fact, there is a decent chance you'll need to take it to offset the advantage opponents have gained over you by taking the same thing.
Do you take it? If you are even tempted to say yes, you shouldn't be so venomous in your judgments of Alex Rodriguez.
Yes, A-Rod deserves to be punished. And yes, we should try to rid the game of PED use. But while we're casting judgments on A-Rod and Braun and the others implicated in the Biogenesis scandal and past steroid stories, we might want to consider casting that same harsh judgment on previous generations of players.
And on ourselves.
Obviously, A-Rod has issues, and there is no excuse for his behavior. But the larger issue for us to reflect on is our own views on cheating, morality and ethics.
One of the great moral voices of the 20th century, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, reminds us that "in a free society, few are guilty, but all are responsible." In other words, while Rodriguez is the person who has to own up to his actions, we are all complicit in creating a system that encouraged it.
Indeed, social norms can easily trump even the strongest internal moral compass. Dan Ariely, author of the book The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, has done research that shows that people tend to cheat when society views their actions as "normal" and "acceptable." As he says, "In many areas of life, we look to others to learn what behaviors are appropriate and inappropriate. Dishonesty may very well be one of the cases where the social norms that define acceptable behavior are not very clear, and the behavior of others…can shape our ideas about what's right and wrong." (Ariely, 201)
This is a particularly powerful message for us as we prepare for the High Holy Days, and think about how we have acted in this past year. While we do reflect on the particular actions that we want to atone for, most of the prayers that we say are in the plural — "We have sinned, we have transgressed."
In other words, we atone not only for our individual mistakes, but for the ways we have allowed (or even encouraged) immoral behavior to flourish. And so whether or not we ourselves have lied, cheated or used PED's, we all have played a part in shaping the social norms that will define "ethical behavior," which then provides the model for how others will behave.
So yes, A-Rod will have to answer for his own actions. But we all helped create the system that incentivized steroids.
We will soon find out if A-Rod is guilty. But regardless of outcome, we all are responsible for creating the society we live in. And it's the task of all of us to ensure it's a moral one.
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Why I'm an Agnostic Theist
Researchers at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have just published a new study about atheists and atheism, and interestingly, the authors argue that non-belief in God is just as variegated as belief in God. At least initially, they have identified six types of non-believers: Intellectual Atheist/Agnostics (IAA), Activist Atheist/Agnostics (AAA), Seeker Agnostics (SA), Antitheists, Non-theists and Ritual Atheist/Agnostics (RAA).
The way these different groups defined themselves show how many different ways there are to think about God, even if people don't believe in God — the Antitheists actively try to convince people that religion is harmful; the Activists pursue social justice work (such as environmentalism or LGBT rights); and the Intellectuals tend to love to study science, philosophy, sociology and politics.
One group, however, seemed to encapsulate a large segment of the Jewish community: the Ritual Atheist / Agnostics. As Christopher Silver, co-author of the study, notes:
Ritual Atheist/Agnostics find utility in tradition and ritual. For example, these individuals may participate in specific rituals, ceremonies, musical opportunities, meditation, yoga classes, or holiday traditions. Such participation may be related to an ethnic identity (e.g. Jewish) or the perceived utility of such practices in making the individual a better person.
Ritual Atheists / Agnostics, in other words, are less interested in whether or not religion is "true" than whether it "works." Considering that Judaism is religion much more about action than about faith, perhaps it is not surprising that so many Jews would fall under this category.
Yet I have one major problem with this study. While the authors articulate distinctions among many types of non-believers, they lump together atheists and agnostics. In fact, atheism and agnosticism are almost totally independent of each other — and in fact, many Jews (myself included) would likely self-identify as "agnostic theists."
Here's why:
First, the question of God's existence is ultimately an unanswerable one. After all, different people think of, talk about and experience God in different ways, so the word "God" means different things to different people. Since we don't all agree on what God is, we can't accurately talk about whether or not God exists, because depending on how we define "God," the answer to that question will be "yes" for some people and "no" for others.
Secondly, if we have any supernatural elements in our definition of God, we can't use natural means to answer the question of God's existence — by definition, such questions would be outside the realm of scientific knowledge. Indeed, even some of today's greatest scientists and philosophers who call themselves "Antithesists," such as Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, have all said that they cannot say definitively whether or not God exists.
So because we can't know the answer to God's existence with certainty, the only intellectually honest answer to the question about whether God exists is "I don't know." And so that makes me an agnostic.
But even though we can't know about God, we can certainly create our beliefs about God. We can decide how we use our religious outlook in our every day lives. And for me, theism is the language I want to use. When I meet a person for the first time, and believe that they are "created in the image of God," it impacts the way I will treat them. When I experience the awe and majesty of nature, I can say that I "feel God's presence." And when I do social justice work, I can say that I am "partnering with God to make our world more whole," which adds a level of spirituality to my actions.
Indeed, as my friend and colleague Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu recently wrote in her piece "Where Does God Fit In?": "We do not talk about God in the liberal Jewish community. We talk about the importance of community itself, showing up for services, and giving charity." So perhaps if we focused less on the question "Does God exist?" and more on the question "How do my beliefs about God impact my life and our world?", we could begin to have deeper and more meaningful conversations about God in a Jewish setting.
As the Yiddish saying goes, "If I knew God, I'd be God." So even as we don't know about God's existence, we can still explore what we want our relationship with the Divine to look like.
And if we look at God in this way, we are "agnostic theists" — which I have found to be the most intellectually and emotionally satisfying way to look at the world.
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Why Time Isn't Money
We often tend to use the same language for time as we use for money. We "spend" it. We "save" it. We "buy" it. We use those same words because both time and money are very precious resources to us.
But while money is always money (the same 20 dollars can used to buy food, movies, or in my case, a new book), time is a little more nuanced.
In fact, the Greeks had two different words for time: chronos and kairos. Chronos was the quantitative sense of time. It could be measured and dissected, and most importantly, was undifferentiated.
Kairos, in contrast, was the qualitative sense of time. It was psychological, how we felt time, and it reminded us that not every moment was exactly the same — some moments were more powerful, more important and more holy than others.
To phrase it another way, if chronos is the date of your wedding, kairos is your wedding day.
So time is paradoxical. Sometimes we look at it through our daily or weekly schedules, placing all our obligations and opportunities into our calendar. When we look at time in this way, it is something we use, and has value only to the extent that it can help us achieve other goals. But sometimes we look at time through the lens of what is most special and important in our lives. When we look at it in this way, it is something we experience, and has value in and of itself.
Our view of money, however, doesn't have this challenge. Money doesn't have value in and of itself — its power comes in what it allows us to do. The question then is, are we using our money to help us do what we truly want to be doing?
In the new book Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton outline the different ways we can use money to increase our well-being. While money doesn't buy happiness (at least not directly), if we use our money correctly, we can find opportunities for more joy and satisfaction in life. And one of the primary ways we can do that is to use money to buy time — but it has to be a specific type of time.
We all are busy with our lives, and we often think that buying a new time-saving gadget will make our lives better because it will "save us time." Instead, these new gadgets often force us to do more work in the same amount of time. But that's because when we are looking to "be more efficient," we are looking for more chronos time.
What Dunn and Norton argue is that we should use our money to find ways to experience kairos time. So, for example, how can we make sure that we have a date night with our spouse? How can we strive to volunteer with organizations that give our lives meaning? As Dunn and Norton explain:
Transforming decisions about money into decisions about time has a surprising benefit. Thinking about time — rather than money — spurs people to engage in activities that promote well-being, like socializing and volunteering. In a 2010 study, more than three hundred adults completed a simple task designed to activate the concept of either time or money. One group unscrambled sentences related to time, such as "sheets the change clock" (possible answers: "change the sheets" or "change the clock"). Another group unscrambled sentences related to money ("sheets the change price"). Afterwards, everyone decided how to spend the next twenty-four hours. Individuals who unscrambled sentences related to time were more inclined to socialize and engage in "intimate relations" and were less inclined to work. Those who unscrambled sentences related to money showed just the opposite pattern, reporting enhanced intentions to work and diminished intentions to socialize or have intimate relations.
Why? Time and money promote different mind-sets. We view our choices about how to spend time as being deeply connected to our sense of self. In contrast, choices about money often lead us to think in a relatively cold, rational manner. Focusing on time frees people to prioritize happiness and social relationships. Even a simple sentence-unscrambling task is enough to induce these different frames of mind. (Dunn and Norton, 74-75)
In Judaism, the paradigmatic kairos time is Shabbat. During the six days of the work week, we are supposed to be productive, to be working hard in order to support ourselves and our family. But on Shabbat, we are told to take a break. To rest. To be with friends. To be with family. To go for a nice, long walk. To read and to learn. To pray. To be reminded that time can be special.
Indeed, while every dollar we earn is the same, not every moment in life is the same. And while we can always potentially gain more money, we never gain more time. While you can always potentially get a refund on your money, once your time is spent, it's gone.
So let's make sure we're spending it wisely.
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