Following Goethe, I do not seek explanation, and I do not write about anything that is separate from me. My own development through these years, and the developments threading these three years themselves, are one. I try...to portray the character of the emergent social predicament that we are all participants in and responsible for." -- Allan Kaplan Emerging from a unique Goethean approach to human experience--developed over a lifetime, applied here to life during the first three years of the Covid era, from a mountain in South Africa--Allan Kaplan's Fugitive is both a poetic record and a contemplative, scientific roadmap. In striving to make himself a vessel for sensing the dynamics of our time--the struggle for meaning, the will toward freedom, the experience of powerlessness and surrender, and the urge to defend and secure the capacity for human thinking and discernment--Kaplan allows the profound questions of our time to arise and be explored in thought that is free of the compulsion to arrive at fixed conclusions. In pondering the elements of nature and the laws governing them, we find the active forces of life and health; we glimpse wisdom at work and, often, beauty. One might be reminded: we, too, are a part of nature, and this wisdom of nature, encountered competently, may serve as a guide in facing the tasks of recognizing, embodying, and preserving the essence of our humanity in these darkening times.Here is a little book--an example in practice--to help strengthen our humanity.
The Hebrew word Haggadah means “the telling”. In this booklet, readers will be led through a traditional Seder service, discover a telling of the history of Passover, and the significance of observing Passover to modern day believers. Included with this book are resources that teach basic Hebrew terminology to help the reader better understand the Seder as well as a transliteration key to aid in the pronunciation of Hebrew words.
Observing the Feast of Passover - An Eternal Ordinance is a comprehensive training guide for individuals, teachers, and church leaders. This guide can be used to lead a Passover Seder, teach a Bible study, or as source material for sermons regarding Hebraic Roots and fulfillment of the Feasts of the LORD. Through these vital teachings, one can more fully grasp an understanding of biblical and rabbinical backgrounds, processes, and the messianic significance of annual spring ceremonies conducted worldwide.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman’s work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of the dangers of trusting to intuition – which springs from “fast” but broad and emotional thinking – rather than engaging in the slower, harder, but surer thinking that stems from logical, deliberate decision-making. Written in a lively style that engages readers in the experiments for which Kahneman won the Nobel, Thinking, Fast and Slow’s real triumph is to force us to think about our own thinking.
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