Sunday, May 17, 2015

"To think is to forget."

I have been having trouble posting here lately.  On all but my one main home computer I'm asked to start an account, but I have an account and it doesn't let me get to my account, for which there seems to be no accounting...

A week ago I purchased the new, just out, Koren Pirkei Avot.  Rabbi Marc Angel makes some interesting comments.  On the mishnah on how terrible it is to purposely push away Torah you've learned he riffs on memory and quotes Jorges Luis Borges saying that, "To think is to forget." Wow. I think a lot about our thinking and our stories.  And I think a lot about memory. Now I'm thinking about thinking...

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