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 Thats 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 Whitmans 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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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.
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