The Aleph Essays

Being alone is often questioned by humans with you if you were; that why a common job interview question is "What three things you would bring to a deserted island?" It's because individuals do like not being alone and isolated. The irony, mood, and conflicts show how this is an overall theme of the short story "Game" by Donald Barthelme. In this short story, where two individuals are in an underground bunker during the cold war. They are the men that when told launch the missile they would turn

In The Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges tells the story of Carlos Argentino Daneri, a mediocre poet on a quest to create a masterpiece- a poem that describes in detail all the places in the world. Upon receiving the news that his house will be demolished, Daneri is enraged. He confesses to the narrator that he needs the house to finish his poem, as the ceiling contains an Aleph, i.e. a point in space that contains all other points and he has been using it as an aide for his writing. The story ends with the

Specifically, Borges took on the role of existentialism within the supernatural realm in his 1949 story entitled, “The Aleph.” In the short story, Borges [author] depicts the experience of finding an object called the “Aleph” in his friend Carlos Argentino Daneri’s

In Jewish tradition, the golem is most widely known as an artificial creature that is brought to life by powerful magic. In Hebrew, the word, golem, stands for, shapeless mass. Golems are strong but simple-minded, having no will of their own they obey their creators every order. According to Jewish law, a golem’s life is valued at less than a human’s, for only God, not Man, can give a creature a soul. Golems are most commonly made from clay, but in some stories they are made of made of wood or sometimes

Although the term “autistic” is rather malapropos, I agree with the concept he is trying to convey. His claim is evident through the way our views of language have transformed. According to philosopher and writer, David Abram, in the original Hebrew aleph-beth, all of the letters were consonants, and vowels were “… nothing other than sounded breath,” (Abram 241). The absence of vowels in the Hebrew text made reading require highly active participation and an awareness of the exchange of breath between

The 29th Path: QOPH Malkuth to Netzach “He produced Qoph, predominant in Mirth, crowned it, combined and formed with it Pisces in the Universe, Adar in the Year, and the spleen of Man.” - Sepher Ietzirah trans. by W.W. Westcott The Letter The origin of Qoph is uncertain. The most ancient form of the letter Qoph was a picture of a large knot tied in a cord. According to another suggestion, it may have also been a picture of a monkey and its tail. Later, this latter was represented by a symbol

Aum Shinrikyo began in 1984 as a religious group combining both the Buddhist and Hindu beliefs and is also obsessed with the apocalypse. It was founded by Shoko Asahara, who professed himself to be both the first “enlightened one” and Christ. Aum, as it was often referred to, was officially recognized in Japan as a religious organization in 1989. Asahara chose a sizable universal following through writing books and speaking at universities. Most of his followers were from Japanese universities as

Joyce once said: "I 've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that 's the only way of insuring one 's immortality." And it is true, the book is full of symbols and images, some of them are not very clear so they have different interpretations. In chapter five, Joyce makes references to different symbols:1 “Sleeping sickness in the air” (Joyce, 2010: 63) Like the lotus flowers in Ulysses, which produces narcotic effects

in spreading Torah by translating it or making it too accesible for the entire world and all nations. Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum established that the teaching methods of teaching Torah should never be changed. He didn't even allow the teachers to teach Aleph-Bais differently than the way it was taughr in his eastern-european

The first reading of the first chapter of the book Pursuing Happiness, edited by Matthew Parfitt and Dawn Skorczewski introduces to different parts of the book of Psalms. I have done my research using different sources to understand more about this antique text. In the following paragraphs I will discuss the structure and the authorship of the five different sections of the book of Psalms. The book of Psalms is one of the largest book in the Bible, it is divided into five sections of divine songs

of two infinite sets. The cardinality of is not of course an ordinary number, since is infinite. It's nevertheless a mathematical object that deserves a name, so Cantor represented it by the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet, , (pronounce "aleph") with a subscript of zero: , Cantors ingenious diagonal argument convinces us that there are so many real numbers that it is impossible for them all to be listed, even with a neverending list, and so they cannot be counted, even in unlimited time

How did the Japanese cult, Aum Shinrikyo, Aum for short, utilize violence to their advantage to create a reputation that furthered their goals? An act of domestic terror in 1995, and all the smaller terroristic acts committed in the early 90s, by this cult is violence used to build a reputation for themselves. After trying to gain political legitimacy, and failing, cult leader Shoko Asahara turned to building up his credibility and reputation by using violence. The numbers of people involved in the