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May the Omnipresent One Comfort You from His Place

May the Omnipresent One Comfort You from His Place

By J. Timothy King on May 1, 2013

This coming Sabbath service at our synagogue, I’m doing one of the Torah readings, from the Gospels, the first part of John chapter 11. You may notice two funny things in that sentence. Firstly, as part of our Torah service, we don’t only read the standard parshah from the Torah (the first five books: Genesis, […]

Posted in Christianity, Judaism, Religion | Tagged death, grief, Kedushah, Lazarus, sadness, shiva | 2 Responses

Old Commodore 128 (versus the flat-screen TV)

Bits & Pieces 2012-08-30

By J. Timothy King on August 30, 2012

Links and things that I’ve run across recently. Hey, Can I Get Facebook on This Thing? August 1 was the 30’th anniversary of the release of the Commodore 64 home computer. To commemorate the event, Pingdom posted a series of C-64 photos on his blog, and I guess, yeah, we all looked pretty dorky back […]

Posted in Bits & Pieces, Judaism, Religion | Tagged Commodore 64, death, Gilmore Girls, J. Michael Straczynski, photos, sadness, shiva

Sadness, by T. Willson; © 2009 T. Willson CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

A Prayer for the Depressed

By J. Timothy King on August 5, 2009

Today, for Wishcasting Wednesday, Jamie Ridler asks, “What do you wish to make room for?” Like most people, I have so much stuff, both physically and figuratively, it’s hard to make room for anything. But what I really want to make room for today is the following blog post, which I’ve wanted to write. But […]

Posted in Judaism, Religion, Wishcasting Wednesday | Tagged death, depression, Hebrew, kaddish, prayer, sadness | 22 Responses

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