Prayer

I recently spoke with someone very close to me concerning the subject of prayer.
I have relatively little traditional background when it comes to this aspect of the religious experience. As an adolescent, I regularly attended Hebrew school and Shabbat services, but because I could only pronounce, rather than actually understand Hebrew, prayer [...]

Of Philosophy, Friendship and Youtube

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When I was a freshman at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, I had the good fortune of befriending an unusual upperclassmen named George Wolfe. George was 24, with silver-speckled red hair and slight remnants of a Russian accent. He first became visible to me on account of an unbecoming tendency to insert himself into discussions [...]