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Ironically, the first of those teachers, and the founder of a faith now known for its warlike strength, was a gentle sage who preached a code of pacifism. Declaring "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim," Guru Nanak forged a path between the two warring religions, drawing followers from both, when he created Sikhism in Punjab at the end of the 15th century. Two centuries later, however, Guru Nanak's teaching of religious tolerance was radically redirected by the tenth and last of the Sikh gurus, a skilled horseman and dauntless fighter named Gobind Singh. With his people...
...Robert Frost in Captivity": a singer of homely New England scenes, "full of complacent wisdom and cast-iron whimsy." Then, shortly after Frost's death in 1963 at age 88, his friend Lawrance Thompson began publishing a three-volume biography; inadvertently or not, it replaced the cracker-barrel sage with a monster. Thompson piled up a chronicle of "jealousies, obsessive resentments, sulking, displays of temper, nervous rages, and vindictive retaliations" that threatened to eclipse even Frost's jauntiest lyrics...
...right wing of Orthodoxy use just his initials "J.B.") As professor of Talmud since 1941 at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New York City, Soloveitchik has prepared nearly 1,500 men for ordination. By some estimates, this is the largest number of rabbis trained by any sage of the past millennium. The group makes up the majority of the North American Orthodox rabbis now serving in synagogues. Neither the Conservative nor the Reform branches of U.S. Judaism can boast an equivalently pre-eminent scholar...
...Charles, Sage, manager of the grocery store that bears his, name, said it is unnecessary to keep the drive closed on Sundays in the fall, because people only really use the park during the summer. "In bad weather, you just don't see those people only really use the park during the summer. "In bad weather, you just don't see those people out there" said Sage...
...grill person at Tommy's Lunch, a late-night eatery which adjoins Cahaly's downplayed the importance of loyalty, saying students would likely adapt to Sage's without much hardship...