
Week of 2/9-14/2026: Saintliness & Satire in Troubled Times
This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember
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This is a summary of the previous week’s daily meditations. You can click on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Also, remember

We have been meditating on Leonard Cohen’s and then Ernest Becker’s understandings of holiness or saintliness. Why? Because evil is so present in our news

Ernest Becker sees religion today as failing to open up our perception based on “celebrating God’s creation.” He praises indigenous religions for doing exactly that.

We concluded a three-part meditation on the meaning of saintliness from Leonard Cohen in yesterday’s DM with his definition that a saint is “a balancing
With one year ending and another dawning, it is customary to reflect on the outgoing year. One sees articles, for example, on “the best movies

We have seen how Rabbi Heschel calls for an invitation to “holiness” in order turn evil around. Ernest Becker proposes something parallel when he writes
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