Ancient Wisdom Today » A Time to Cast Away http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org Ancient Wisdom Today: seeking to understand the past to make sense of the present Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 A Time to Cast Away http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2008/11/27/a-time-to-cast-away/ http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/2008/11/27/a-time-to-cast-away/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:00:50 +0000 Maer http://maer.vidanovaphilly.org/?p=46 We often hear of the power of stories, but sometimes it is good to see a specific example of how stories can help us make sense of what could be difficult to grasp in the abstract. They can also stimulate our imagination through their style, play on words, humor, cleverness, ambiguity, etc.

For this reason, I have often wondered what it would be like to transform Qohelet into a narrative. If you think that such a task is impossible or even ludicrous, the Rabbis didn’t think so. Let me show you an example. In chapter 3 Qohelet starts his “catalogue of times” and in verse 6 he says:

[a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away (ESV)]

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