By The Waters of Babalon By Joey Wiesenberg
By the waters of Babylon. We laid our lyres down Laid our lyres down Sat and cried. By the waters of Babylon sang no sacred songs Sang no sacred songs Tongues were tied.
If I forget you Jerusalem I'll play no more again play no more again Not one more time.Won't you show me Jerusalem, razed and broken, raised and broken, alone on high.
By the waters of Babylon We laid our lyres down Laid our lyres down for a long long time.
By the waters of Babylon. We laid our lyres down Laid our lyres down Sat and cried. By the waters of Babylon sang no sacred songs Sang no sacred songs Tongues were tied.
If I forget you Jerusalem I'll play no more again play no more again Not one more time.Won't you show me Jerusalem, razed and broken, raised and broken, alone on high.
By the waters of Babylon We laid our lyres down Laid our lyres down for a long long time.
Crash Theory- Rabbi Benay Lappe
And there are three, and only three, possible responses to a crash, ever. And people tend to choose one of these three responses as a result of a number of factors, which we can talk about later. But the three basic responses are what I call . . .Option One, which is denying that a crash has occurred and reverting to your master story and hanging on for dear life—and people tend to build walls around that old master story to make sure that nothing interferes or threatens it again.
Option Two would be accepting that your master story has crashed, completely rejecting that master story, and jumping off into a completely new story.
Option Three is to accept that the story has crashed, but instead of abandoning the story, you stay in it, reinterpreting it through the lens of the crash, and building a new story from the amalgamation of the original story the crash material and the reinterpretation.
And there are three, and only three, possible responses to a crash, ever. And people tend to choose one of these three responses as a result of a number of factors, which we can talk about later. But the three basic responses are what I call . . .Option One, which is denying that a crash has occurred and reverting to your master story and hanging on for dear life—and people tend to build walls around that old master story to make sure that nothing interferes or threatens it again.
Option Two would be accepting that your master story has crashed, completely rejecting that master story, and jumping off into a completely new story.
Option Three is to accept that the story has crashed, but instead of abandoning the story, you stay in it, reinterpreting it through the lens of the crash, and building a new story from the amalgamation of the original story the crash material and the reinterpretation.
(א) משֶׁה קִבֵּל תּוֹרָה מִסִּינַי, וּמְסָרָהּ לִיהוֹשֻׁעַ, וִיהוֹשֻׁעַ לִזְקֵנִים, וּזְקֵנִים לִנְבִיאִים, וּנְבִיאִים מְסָרוּהָ לְאַנְשֵׁי כְנֶסֶת הַגְּדוֹלָה. הֵם אָמְרוּ שְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים, הֱווּ מְתוּנִים בַּדִּין, וְהַעֲמִידוּ תַלְמִידִים הַרְבֵּה, וַעֲשׂוּ סְיָג לַתּוֹרָה:
(1) Moses received the torah at Sinai and transmitted it to Joshua, Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the Men of the Great Assembly. They said three things: Be patient in [the administration of] justice, raise many disciples and make a fence round the Torah.
