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Michael Leo Pomeranz

Michael Leo Pomeranz

Lox et Veritas

Michael Leo Pomeranz hails from Chicago, Illinois. He is absolutely sure he is going to major in Religious Studies, which is the third major of which he is absolutely sure this week. His weblog, Lox et Veritas, is a pun on the Yale motto, Lux et Veritas, which means Light and Truth. Michael is in his junior year at Yale University, where he tries (and fails) to keep the Latin puns to a minimum. Close.

Michael Leo Pomeranz

Lox et Veritas

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Lox et Veritas

President Kennedy and Rabbi Tarphon, Part II

I wrote several days ago about doing good. I wrote yesterday about President Kennedy’s inaugural asking people to do goo. He asks us citizens of the world to sacrifice in order to bring “a new rule of law, where the strong are just, the weak secure, and the peace preserved.” Kennedy asks also when we ought to do good.

History, I believe, marches, inevitably, towards its end – the World to Come, perhaps – and our actions either drive history’s arc closer to or farther from its, or God’s desired end.

With this as“All this will not be finished in the first 100 days, nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet, but let us begin.” Kennedy’s intuition is borrowed from Rabbi Tarphon: "The day is short, the work is great, the workmen are slothful, the reward is rich, and the Master is urgent.” He also said: "It is not incumbent on thee to complete the whole task, but thou art not at liberty therefore to neglect it entirely. . . faithful is the Master of thy work, who will pay thee the reward of thy work; and know also that the gift of the recompense of the righteous is for the world to come."

We forget, sometimes, what that means, and I don’t think a political lecture is here necessary, but I do think that people often forget how much they can affirm or deny the processes around them that may be good or bad. Every time you purchase an item, you vote. Every you take a job, you vote. And every day, here on earth, provides you a new opportunity to make sure that ours is truly God’s work.sumption I find great power in the speech.

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ida:

Norrie,

Point well taken.

Anonymous:

Lox et Veritas: Work of God or Nations?

The only way to preserve our way of LIFE is to continually seek TRUTH and do good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLzizVft_eA

Why do the nations so furiously rage together, why do the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His anointed.
Psalms 2:1-2


Norrie Hoyt:

Ida,

Thanks for your post.

If you parse my words carefully, you'll see that I did NOT use the phrase "PERSONAL ENLIGHTENMENT."

I said "... to progress on his own PERSONAL PATH toward ENLIGHTENMENT."

There's a really big difference here: I see ENLIGHTENMENT as a single objective condition which is the same for all beings (including animals).

The PATH to enlightenment, however, is different for all beings and PERSONAL to each one of them.

This, by the way, is the orthodox and traditional Buddhist teaching, as I understand it.

Regards.

Ida:

A couple of things, First Norrie, I think that "pleasing and 'imagined' God" is the most useful tool for many people to "progress on their own personal path toward--here I would differ from you -- spritual wholeness" I think "personal enlightenment" is a very soft target that may not be very rewarding at the end of the day.

Second. it is interesting to see how presidents have involed the use of God in their rhetoric. I cannot judge all of Kennedy's use of God but, here at least, it is very different from, say Bush's references. In the former he asks that people do good. That they make that reach. In the latter, he aks for God's blesing on what Bush has chosen, I think.

Ida:

A couple of things, First Norrie, I think that "pleasing and 'imagined' God" is the most useful tool for many people to "progress on their own personal path toward--here I would differ from you -- spritual wholeness" I think "personal enlightenment" is a very soft target that may not be very rewarding at the end of the day.

Second. it is interesting to see how presidents have involed the use of God in their rhetoric. I cannot judge all of Kennedy's use of God but, here, at lease, it is very different from, say Bush's references. In the former he asks that people do good. That they make that reach. In the latter, he aks for God's blesing on what Bush has chosen, I think.

Norrie Hoyt:

I loved Jack Kennedy when he was President.

But I think both he and Rabbi Tarphon should have lightened up a bit in what they wrote and said.

A human person's task is not to please an imagined God, or a Master who thinks he is slothful, but to demonstrate compassion toward all sentient beings, including animals, and to progress on his own personal path toward enlightenment.

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