Word: monumentality
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...Kabbalah Misconceptions Your article "A Brief History of: Kabbalah" is a monument to the ignorance of today's popular culture. Kabbalah is the oral tradition of the mystical aspect of the Torah. Those who lack the oral tradition are at best pretenders. I hope the description of Madonna as a practitioner was a joke, because it can't be taken seriously. Kabbalah did not cohere around a book; the book was an attempt to record in writing a tradition that had been around for centuries. The Zohar may have been first published in the 13th century, but it was written...
...where to stay, head for a spot that is possibly even more vibrant: Kersefontein Guest Farm, a national monument that is now a luxury hotel on the Berg River, north of the town of Hopefield...
...Obama's people and Berlin authorities finally agreed to stage the speech instead in front of the Siegess?ule (victory column) monument - or "Goldelse" ("Goldlizzie"), as Berliners affectionately dub it because of a golden statue of the goddess of victory that crowns the monument. Built in the second half of the 19th century to commemorate Prussian victories against the French, the Danes and Austria, the column has been a backdrop for various mass events, such as the annual "Love Parade," a huge open-air techno party. The right location, some commentators only half-jokingly remarked, for a political rock star...
...Governor of Illinois pardoned the surviving defendants of the Haymarket bombing case, which came out of the 1886 riots between police and labor protesters in Chicago. He condemned the case as a fraud and the resulting executions of defendants as judicial murder. Following the pardon, a monument was dedicated to those who had been found guilty with the words of a hanged defendant on the pedestal: ''The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.'' Let's hope, in your continuing coverage of this newest ''bombing conspiracy,'' that those words...
...dead just before the playing of the Mexican national anthem. Even the host nation's 2-1 victory over Belgium in its opening match ended in chaos as tens of thousands of celebrators rampaged through the center of the capital, commandeering public buses and tearing pieces off the national monument of independence. By the time the revelry died down, 134 people had been arrested, at least 250 had been hospitalized, and a woman had been gang- raped beside the city's main thoroughfare. To top things off, the ''eternal flame'' representing the country's independence was stolen. The symbolism...