Word: yom
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...cross of ashes. By acknowledging every human’s origin and end in ashes and dust, we are moved toward more than a month of fasting and spiritual growth. In the spirit of ecumenism, similar practices are common to different religions and ways of life: Islamic Ramadan, Jewish Yom Kippur, classical Greek Stoicism, Buddhist bodhisattva practices, and the list goes...
...Happy Yom Kippur...
...year ago, according to the economics professor who asked not to be named, Shleifer hosted Summers and several other members of the economics department, at his home to break their fasts after Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. At one point that night, the two friends played a game of ping-pong. Summers won easily, but the Harvard president is an avid tennis player, so the outcome was never really in doubt. Shleifer, one might say, was screwed...
...days earlier, star economist Andrei N. Shleifer ’82 played host to Summers for a break-fast at his Newton home on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement—just three months after a federal judge found that Shleifer and a colleague had conspired to defraud the federal government, leaving Harvard liable for up to $34.8 million in damages. (Please see sidebar, below...
...don’t fancy myself a Sandy Koufax, refusing to play ball on Yom Kippur. But I’ve come to learn that simple traditions, even silly ones that don’t seem to make much sense, can add meaning to an often meaningless existence. At the very least, they can remind us that we are not alone...