Another provocative verse, thank you, and I am reminded of Plato's Philosopher King, and that era (@400 BC) when elsewhere in the world there was a vision of combining authority and wisdom. Though often a masculine wisdom---Athena/Minerva in the Hellenistic world---the Greeks understood wisdom as a feminine principle: Sophia. The Hebrews as well (see Proverbs: Chochma) Nothing abstract about this wisdom, but something Solomonic, an ideal in which the moral issues of justice, the reverent as well as the organizational principle, were to be woven together. How absent in our modern world seems the very concept of wisdom, how far from our educational and philosophical conversations. What a loss.
Another provocative verse, thank you, and I am reminded of Plato's Philosopher King, and that era (@400 BC) when elsewhere in the world there was a vision of combining authority and wisdom. Though often a masculine wisdom---Athena/Minerva in the Hellenistic world---the Greeks understood wisdom as a feminine principle: Sophia. The Hebrews as well (see Proverbs: Chochma) Nothing abstract about this wisdom, but something Solomonic, an ideal in which the moral issues of justice, the reverent as well as the organizational principle, were to be woven together. How absent in our modern world seems the very concept of wisdom, how far from our educational and philosophical conversations. What a loss.
Shviti -- Teshuva
To replace, to remind, to return?
A little a(r)mulet that reminds us, like a spiritual wristwatch -- a shviti segulah, a teshuvah talisman...