Posted on 02/15/2020 5:30:30 PM PST by Twotone
The world knows Kirk Douglas as Spartacus, and as one of the greatest movie stars of the greatest generation. I know him as my hevruta — the Aramaic word for study partner.
For almost 25 years I met with Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovich, once a week to study Torah. After we read through the Bible and hit up all the greats — “That’s a role I was born to play,” he said of King David — we moved on to other books: the Mishna for rabbinical wisdom; “The Prophet” by Khalil Gibran; Walt Whitman’s poetry; and modern theology from Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber. In time, we just met to talk.
When I first met Kirk in his 70s, he had already had a stroke and a heart attack, and survived a helicopter crash that killed two other occupants. In the 30 years I had the privilege to know him, Kirk, who died Wednesday at age 103, endured a lot. He lost a child to addiction and lost friend after friend to old age until he was left without many contemporaries.
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That’s beautiful.
We always think we ‘know’ famous people. Most of the time we know very little at all about them.
Kirk was a Joo. One half of him. Didn’t’ read the article but I did see the movie Lust for Life. Great flick. Intense between him and Anthony Quinn.
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Why don’t you read the article? It’s inspiring.
Once, fed up with a certain passage when he believed God was being harsh, he slammed the book shut and said “Ach, get me a better story.” Yet he would also say over and over that the stories in the Bible were the wisest in the world, and if he were young, he would start making movies of them, beginning with King David. He knew his life was possible only in America.
Article was too much information.
What the heck is your problem? You claim that you didn’t even read it.
Douglas also served 3 years in the U.S. Navy during WWII. (Purple Heart)
That’s beautiful
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I think it’s sad that someone can spend so much time with the Bible and never come to know Christ and ultimately the Kingdom of God. Eternity is a long time to spend away from God.
He was one of the great ones, RIP.
A friend of mine, who did know Christ, was dying & in her last days when told me she could not wait to be “forever in the presence of God’s love”. I thought that was a beautiful description of Heaven.
Bkmrk.
I think that sincerely striving toward an understanding of *God* is very valuable to the individual human life.
I don’t believe that religious Jews are somehow ‘damned’ because they may not believe that Jesus has ‘saved’ them.
God has His plan for each of us, as we present as Individuals.
(And I don’t think it’s very smart to try and second-guess Him, just because we are inclined toward merely human - and very subjective - religious prejudices.)
“I don’t believe that religious Jews are somehow ‘damned’ because they may not believe that Jesus has ‘saved’ them.”
Our personal beliefs don’t constrain or create eternal realities.
ok Jamestown. I read the whole article-just for you. Inspiring but nothing surprised me. Quite accomplished.
“I don’t believe that religious Jews are somehow ‘damned’ because they may not believe that Jesus has ‘saved’ them.”
The Bible says otherwise:
18 ¶ He that believeth on him (Jesus) is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
- Jn 3:18
Yes. God creates ‘eternal realities’.
And He has His own reasons and purposes. I believe that he deals appropriately with every entity that believes in Him.
We don’t need stupid little people on Earth making God’s decisions for Him.
Funny,
I obtained a copy of
“Spartacus”
A month ago and
I’ve watched it at
Least a dozen times,
I’m Watching it now!
.
It’s a love story.
“I said “When you were young, you probably had a block of ice and a fan.” He fixed me with a stare and said, “Who had a fan?””
Haha
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