Mamas, remember that when your baby is born, he has literally spent his entire life curled up with you. For nine months, he’s never been apart from you, even for a second. He could feel the warmth of your body and hear your heartbeat constantly, without ever the tiniest hint of a break. Imagine how […]
Why is Pentecost Called the Feast of Weeks?
Why is Pentecost called the Feast of Weeks? And Shavuot? And Latter Firstfruits? Whew! That’s a lot of names for one holiday. Leviticus 23 (which we’ll get to in a moment) describes the feast, but doesn’t name it anything. It refers to the offerings as the “firstfruits,” giving us the name of Latter Firstfruits (as […]
Tensegrity: Finding Integrity in Tension
I did not make that word up. “Tensegrity is a design principle that applies when a discontinuous set of compression elements is opposed and balanced by a continuous tensile force, thereby creating an internal prestress that stabilizes the entire structure.” (Scholarpedia) I know; at this point you’re probably going, “whaaat?!” Bear with me, because this […]
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