I wanted to name this blog RheaRt, so that it would sound like our heart, and, at the same time, have my own RR initials embedded in it, but somebody else had that handle.
This will do. RR-Heart.
Maybe I’ll move on and write about RR-knees, RR-stomach, RR esophagus, etc.
RheaRt sounded good to me because in some ways our hearts are not our own. If we are well we all have the same basic design and it doesn’t look exactly like a valentine. We’ve got 2 ventricles, left & right and a left + right atrium. We’ve got pipes and valves. We’ve got circuits.
The Yiddish word for face is punim, which is plural, and my favorite rabbi in the known universe, or in my known universe, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of CBST, pointed out in a sermon several years ago that the word does not exist in the singular. “Our faces are not our own” . . .
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Message from CBST 12-26-08:
ReplyDeleteRebecca,
Best wishes for a Refuah Sh'lei'ma, a complete healing of body mind and spirit.
From your friends at
Congregation Beth Simchat Torah
(inscribed on the inside of the cover of
Gates of Healing
http://ccarpress.org/cgi-bin/pressdisp.pl?list=30057)
Rebecca,
I wanted to recommend the website of The National Center for Jewish Healing
www.ncjh.org/tools.html
and
Ritual Well--www.ritualwell.org
with wishes for a Refuah Sh'leima,
M.S.
(Also a message from E.A. that we left at home)