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By Asher Crispe: May 11, 2012 in Decoding the Tradition, Inspirations | No Comments
Four Existential Questions (Part 3)
I remember an episode a few years ago when, standing in the check out line of a grocery store in Brattleboro, Vermont, a person came up to me and asked: “Excuse me Rabbi, what is the name of those crackers you eat on Passover?” Matzah, or unleavened bread, bears a [...]
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By Asher Crispe: May 04, 2012 in Decoding the Tradition, Inspirations | No Comments
Four Existential Questions (Part 2)
What are the big questions in life? A cursory review of the four questions that stand as the highlight of the Passover seder does not seem to reflect more than an effort to retain a collective memory of a past historical event. Coupled with this, we can regard these questions [...]
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By Asher Crispe: Mar 30, 2012 in Decoding the Tradition | 4 Comments
Four Existential Questions (Part 1)
Werner Heisenberg once said: “what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our methods of questioning.” When understood in this way, the types of questions that we pose selectively affect the reality that we focus upon while simultaneously filtering the reality which comes into focus. If you [...]
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By Asher Crispe: Mar 15, 2012 in Inspirations, Simple Rhythms | No Comments
Night Music
I have always been nocturnal. There is something about the intensity of the silence of the late hour that enriches any sound that is staged upon it. In my mind, this is the best time to enjoy music. I seem to hear it with new ears. It is more meditative, [...]
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By Asher Crispe: Mar 13, 2012 in Inspirations, Quilt of Translations | No Comments
The Executive System: Cognitive Science and Kabbalah (Part 1)
Where is my mind? —The Pixies Everyone deserves a holiday—even neuroscientists. In the Hebrew calendar, we have a particularly popular one reserved for them. Commonly know as Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year actually translates as the head (Rosh) of the year. It is as if each year has [...]
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By Asher Crispe: Mar 12, 2012 in Inspirations, Living with the Times | 2 Comments
How We Choose to Invest: Margin Call (The Movie)
Optioning our talents is a serious matter. Nominated for best screenplay in the 2012 Academy Awards, J.C. Chandor’s sleeper hit film Margin Call, elevates entertainment to the level of education. With its story spun around the recent financial crisis, we are placed at the epicenter of a drama of investment [...]
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By Asher Crispe: May 13, 2011 in Inspirations, Quest of the Question | 4 Comments
Freedom to Question (Part Two)
Famed Noble Laureate Isidor Isaac Rabi once offered the following personal anecdote: My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. ‘Izzy,’ she would say, ‘did you [...]
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