Welcome to the beginning of TIME, transparent yet ever-present, a source of comfort and fear and the hidden link between matter and spirit. This year LABA will investigate time’s ethics and aesthetics, its social and individual cycles, and its presence in our body, our physical environment and our communities. We will read descriptions of the time before
by RUBY NAMDAR If I were the one in charge of pairing ancient texts and Jewish holidays, I would have chosen the book of Kohelet (otherwise known by Greek name Ecclesiastes) as the perfect reading for Rosh HaShana – or better yet, for Yom Kippur. It is the ultimate book of self-examination, of accounting to
CHAPTER ONE 1 The words of Koheleth, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, saith Koheleth; vanity of vanities, all is vanity. 3 What profit hath man of all his labour wherein he laboureth under the sun? 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; and the earth abideth for