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Studying the Bible With Kirk Douglas
The New York Times ^ | February 6, 2020 | David Wolpe

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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To: odawg
"Be concerned with your own condition. You can’t manage anyone else’s."

I think you sorta made my point. But there are folks here who insist that people who follow different sects or interpretations than their own particular ones are just 'wrong, wrong wrong'.
61 posted on 02/16/2020 4:30:16 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
There are guidelines and principles within Scripture to tell us how to interpret it. You don't just get to take off and interpret things according to the way you feel.

Using your own words is a lazy and dangerous way to interpret Scripture. This practice provides us with the cults and weirdness we have today.
62 posted on 02/29/2020 6:56:26 AM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: righttackle44

I think that any authentic scripture must have meaning on many different levels - because individuals have different levels of understanding, different perspectives, etc.

(What you suggest seems very limiting - and even a bit tyrannical to me. That’s why I say that God is ‘bigger’ than that.)

Speaking of ‘danger’ - I think it’s very dangerous to insist that everyone else see ANYTHING in precisely the same way that you do.


63 posted on 02/29/2020 1:45:47 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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