Goldie’s Stories – Episode 6

October 11, 2008

This week we read a story about Reb Shmuel Munkis and the Kabbalistic question he gives to his fellow traveler. This story comes from the Early Chassidic Personalities series book on Reb Shmuel Munkis, by Rabbi Sholom D. Avtzon

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Goldie’s Stories – Episode 5

October 4, 2008

Last week we read a story about the Rebbe Maharash, the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe. This week we read an Erev Yom Kippur story about his wife Rebbetzin Rivkah, her son, and her grandson. This story is taken from Extraordinary Chassidic Tales, an unfortunately out of print series of books.

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Goldie’s Stories – Episode 4

September 27, 2008

This week we are reading a story about the Rebbe Maharash, the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe. Although he was known as the Baal Shemske Rebbe because so many miracles occurred when he was Rebbe this story shows the power of belief to cause a transformation. For those who are interested in more from the behind the [...]

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Goldie’s Stories – Episode 3

September 20, 2008

This week’s story is a story about Rabbi Akiva and his wife Rachel. When Rachel met Rabbi Akiva, then a shepherd in her father’s employ, he was illiterate. But she saw wisdom in him and agreed to marry him if he would go to learn Torah…which of course first meant learning to read. The long [...]

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Goldie’s Stories – Episode 2

September 13, 2008

This Thursday will be the 18th of the month Elul, which is the anniversary of the Baal Shem Tov’s birthday. In honor of this, this week I read two Baal Shem Tov stories from the book “Extrodinary Chassidic Tales”

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Thin Air Summit – Speakers and Registration

September 8, 2008

I know my blogging about the Thin Air Summit, the New Media Conference in Colorado (Nov 7-9), has been a bit sparse here. In our Web2.0 and New Media discussions on the web one of the mantras that runs through them both is “try something beyond what you’ve done before.” With the Thin Air Summit [...]

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Goldie’s Stories – Episode 1

September 6, 2008

At the last Denver Area Podcaster’s meetup Len Edgerly spoke on his Kindle Chronicles podcast and gave six lessons on podcasting. One of his points of advice was to start before you know what you want to podcast on, and when your subject finds you, you will already be ready. He also told a story [...]

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Life Streaming and Sweetcron

August 28, 2008

Sometimes I hang back a bit before trying out a new application, especially in a crowded app space (another X app?). At other times I seem to jump in at the beginning. The past couple of days there has been a lot of talk about Sweetcron (no not corn, cron) even though it wasn’t released [...]

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The Trouble with Twitters

August 26, 2008

I must confess, I am a twitterer. But you probably already knew that, and possibly wandered here from my twitter profile in the first place. I find I get a lot out of twitter, from useful information, social connections, news about events local and virtual, and more. The challenge is in taming the flow of [...]

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Pseudo Biker Poetry

August 18, 2008

The hot spell that held Colorado in its grasp seems to have broken and quite a bit of rain has fallen in the past few days. In looking at my old stack of poetry I found a poem from 1991 that seemed a good fit: The first rain has fallenBringing in the moist cool fall.The [...]

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