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Richard Nisbett The Geography of Thought, How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . .and Why, (Free Press, 2003). All citations in quotations. My comments and explanatory notes added. “Westerns have a strong interest in categorization, which helps them to know what rules to apply to the objects in question, and formal logic plays…
I have just learned that one of the women who was on the Israel tour is in the hospital in Israel. Valerie Cole and Scott stayed after the tour for a few extra days. Valerie didn’t feel well and after two days ended up in the emergency room with a burst appendix. Emergency surgery and…
The Way of God – Moshe Chaim Luzzatto I consider Luzzatto’s book, Mesillat Yesharim, a critically important work in the explication of the power of the yetzer ha’ra and the obligation each of us has toward others. The book elaborates a step-by-step evaluation of the “fearless moral inventory” needed to combat the subtleties of the…
The Dead Sea, October, 2015
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