Tradition
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Given the crisis of these two concurrent trends in religious life, about 12 or 13 years ago, I set out to try to determine if there was any way that I could reclaim the heart of my own Jewish tradition, to help make it meaningful and purposeful again in a world on fire.
My
tradition
tells a story of a traveler who is walking down a road when he sees a beautiful house on fire, and he says, "How can it be that something so beautiful would burn, and nobody seems to even care?"
There's a rabbinic
tradition
that we are to walk around with two slips of paper in our pockets.
Guftis are part of a celebrated
tradition
in Egyptology.
The Royal Spanish Academy, all of language academies, also believes that spelling should be progressively modified; that language is linked to history,
tradition
and custom, but that at the same time, it is a practical everyday tool and that sometimes this attachment to history,
tradition
and custom becomes an obstacle for its current usage.
So I believe that we must reach an agreement, that academies must reach an agreement, and purge from our spelling rules all the habits we practice just for the sake of tradition, even if they are useless now.
Funny enough, I found that this was a 19th century Austrian tradition, where couples in courtship would keep a slice of apple crammed under their armpit during dances, and at the end of the evening, the girl would give the guy she most fancied her used fruit, and if the feeling was mutual, he would wolf down that stinky apple.
So knowing this, I started a new
tradition
in our house a couple of years ago.
And I thought it was going pretty well, this
tradition.
This violation of the sacred hospitality
tradition
greatly angered the gods.
VG: And in the
tradition
of our families, the great oral
tradition
of almost every Black church we know honoring the culture from which we draw so much power, we're gonna start the way our mommas and grandmas would want us to start.
Now, origin myths are closely linked to tradition, and the word
tradition
points to something old and permanent, almost natural, and people assume
tradition
is just history, simply the past condensed into a nice story.
But let's not confuse
tradition
with history.
And today we see claims to
tradition
that claim to be ancient changing rapidly in front of our eyes.
Now here, their claim to
tradition
is at war with history, but they're nevertheless very certain about their purity and about the impurity of others.
Purity, certainty, the return to authentic tradition, the quest for these can lead to lethal visions of perfect societies and perfected people.
In other words, nine out of 10 visions for the
tradition
and future were lost.
And in a
tradition
where we often don't know the dancer's names, who they were, what their lives were like, what they felt, let me propose that we move forward honestly and openly from "khnhom."
I am my teacher's first male student in a
tradition
understood by many as female, and I founded Cambodia's first gay dance company.
And it led us to the project, the courthouse, which is absolutely a part of a negotiation between
tradition
and pieces of the traditional courthouse.
And by the way, there's a great
tradition
of autobiography in this country, led by people on the margins of society who write to assert their existence.
Machiavelli wasn’t the first to do this– in fact there was an entire
tradition
of works known as “mirrors for princes” going back to antiquity.
The rock 'n' rollers had a
tradition
of sharing, as long as nobody made any money.
Remember, this
tradition
comes to us not from the mists of Avalon, back in time, but further still, before we were scratching out these stories on papyrus, or we were doing the pictographs on walls in moist, damp caves.
If you want to get serious about Africa becoming a knowledge continent, this is something that we need to address very seriously, we need to start documenting, we need to start codifying this knowledge, and unfortunately, we are racing against time because
tradition
in Africa is that the transmission has always been oral.
All of these references would have been familiar to medieval Europeans from other art forms and oral tradition, though some have grown more mysterious over the centuries.
The
tradition
of illuminated manuscripts lasted for over a thousand years.
So it’s this combination of respect for the
tradition
and community we’re in, and rebellion that the community requires to get anywhere, that makes science work.
So there is no existing
tradition
in it.
It's a bit of a
tradition.
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