Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then two things changed. A postwar Israeli burst of Kabbalah scholarship yielded modern Hebrew translations and annotations of vital texts. And seekers appeared. Many younger congregants yearning for individual spirituality became impatient with American Reform and Conservative Judaism's longtime emphasis on communal concerns such as Israel and synagogue building. Some left; some explored Eastern meditation. And some, notes author Rodger Kamenetz, decided that "Kabbalah is the poetic language of the Jewish soul...
...Friday night, the overture, though clearly supported by a few more able performers, sounded sadly under-rehearsed. Expression was lacking; even a real sense of unity among the different instruments and the certainty vital to any performance were surprisingly absent...
...Another vital economic indicator came in Thursday from the Labor Department. Initial jobless claims in the U.S. grew by 20,000 last week. Wall Street was hoping the unemployment rate would hold steady. That's bad news for workers, but good news for inflation. The 24-year low 4.7 percent monthly unemployment rate announced on November 7 had been giving analysts heart attacks...
...barrier remains: acupuncture springs from a system of faith that scientists find almost incomprehensible. The treatment rests on the Taoist belief that two life forces, yin and yang, combine to produce a vital life energy, called ch'i (or qi), that flows through the body along pathways known as meridians, which were charted thousands of years ago. People get sick when these life forces are knocked out of balance, and the job of the acupuncturists is to nudge ch'i back into equilibrium. They do this by pushing needles through the skin, sometimes several inches into the body, at specific...
...Says MacLeod: "This appears to be another attempt by Islamic extremists to hit the Egyptian government in an area that is vital to the Egyptian economy ? tourism. It?s a headline-maker around the world, and creates the impression of instability, despite the fact that Egypt is actually fairly stable...