Strong stuff

There's both strong and lovely food for thought in this morning's blogosphere - John Hobbins on literalism - on limitations to explanation, and Rachel Barenblatt on liturgy and ambiguity - an invitation to read with openness. Where in this commonality do I find the unity - the substance of the Shema? Not in polemics but in poetry. There are other poems - but that one from of old for me holds more than a full cup.