Monday, May 12, 2008

re: fitness (jcontent)

Copied and pasted from something I put together a while ago:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=261533&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

Torah with treadmills By Tamar Rotem Sports has gradually breached the modesty barrier and become a legitimate leisure pursuit among the ultra-Orthodox. Sixth article in a series.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/821829.html

Diet is a dirty word By Tsafi Sa'ar

http://www.chicagojewishnews.com/forums/showthread.php?p=148

Rabbi Matanky – physical fitness is a basic Jewish value.

More from rav kook

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/870901_Olympic.html

http://members.aol.com/Sauromalus/jewishveg.htm

lots of great stuff here

and here

http://members.aol.com/Sauromalus/index.html

exercise and t’shuvah

http://israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/torah/ask-rabbi-14-Aug-02.htm

http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/parsha/review/archives/behaloscha63.htm

EXERCISE by Prof. Chaim Lifschitz

Oh, yeah! http://www.mesora.org/exercise.htm

Little maimo

http://thenewmedicine.org/timeline/maimonides

maimo

http://www.parkridgecenter.org/Page18.html

ask the rabbi @ ohr sameyach: http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/1028

straight rambam: http://www.jewishhealing.com/rambamchap4.html

more from ohr: http://ohr.edu/ask/ask102.htm

the medical legacy of maimonides

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4004/is_200107/ai_n8979163

http://mytorah.blogspot.com/2006/09/rambam-on-exercise-dieting-and-lashon.html

maimonides

http://www.koshertorah.com/health-exercise.html

http://www.jbuff.com/c050604.htm

by a doctor: http://www.dermanities.com/detail.asp?article=115

did our sages exercise: http://www.asktherabbi.org/DisplayQuestion.asp?ID=360


Inspiration, move me brightly,

Light the song with sense of color
Hold away despair ...*

This inspired me:

I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining.
I believe in love even when I don’t feel it.
I believe in God even when He is silent.
-scratched into a wall at Auschwitz

The website linked above has some good, not-too-graphic resistance information on WWII from an historical perspective and is worth poking around.

* (by Robert Hunter) Unrelated, but awesome: If you've never read Robert Hunter's "Terrapin Station Suite" in its entirety, I highly recommend giving it a read, some time. Here it is.