COMPASSIONATE PRACTICES
Mindfulness meditation offers us the invaluable opportunity to awaken to each present moment as it happens, sit with whatever arises in your life with acceptance and curiosity, and cultivate kindness and compassion for our fellow living beings. Here you can find my musings, dharma talks, and suggested practices for the mind and heart, as well as my courses and workshops.
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Seven Lawyers, A Taxidermied Hoopoe, Etrog Jam, and a Fertility Singalong
We spent our winter in Israel, where I taught Introduction to American Incarceration in English–the Council of Higher Education has decreed that Israeli law students should take a couple of
Congregational Guitar
I recently realized that I don’t post a lot about music here, though I often do post songs and tunes. It’s odd, given how important music is in my life,
Rock in the Kasvah and Torture in the Kippah: b.Sanhedrin 81-84
The last few pages on the matter of death by fire start off sensibly enough, dealing with questions of dual punishment, and then things get a bit of the rails
Transferred Intent and Hiding in a Crowd: b.Sanhedrin 79-80
Today and tomorrow’s pages address two issues on which there is plenty of writing in modern criminal law. The first is the issue of transferred intent. Usually, we look for
The Eggshell Skull and Other Causation Challenges: b.Sanhedrin 78
Today’s page features two recognized problems in criminal causation of homicide: the issue of multiple contributing factors and the problem of a preexisting condition that hastened death.[1] Today, issues of
A Ray of Sunshine
Sagi Dekel-Hen, who has returned from 500 days in captivity, sings a beautiful song about a ray of sunshine with his family and friends. That’s it. That’s everything.