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pardes - an orchard off the information superhighway

What does pardes mean?

• Its literal meaning: pardes means 'orchard' (Heb. פַּרְדֵּס‎), a word which shares an etymological origin with the word paradise
• Referents: pardes can refer to an 'orchard' of knowledge; the Garden of Eden (R' Hai Ga'on); a mystical ascent to paradise

Visit the weblog (above) for the ruminations of this website's writer on matters of the mind and spirit. (n.b.: If you think that religion and politics shouldn't be discussed in polite company, then this is your invitation to browse away from this website.) A selection of the Author's influences on such topics include the works of people such as:

• John Rawls
• J. S. Mill
  
• Karl Loewenstein
• John Maynard Keynes
• William Beveridge
  
• David Lloyd George
  
• R. H. Tawney
• Lee Kuan Yew
• John Locke
  
• Karl Marx
  

• R' Mordecai Kaplan
• R' Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
• R' Isaac Mayer Wise
• R' Abraham Geiger
• R' Samuel Holdheim
• John Dewey
• Ajahn Brahm
• Thích Nhất Hạnh
  

• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Martha Nussbaum
• Lawrence Lessig
• Yochai Benkler
  
• Benjamin Cardozo
  
• Adam Smith (as moral philosopher)
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing