Book of Words

"According to the Hebrew Bible, God made the world with words. God just spoke and the world became reality. (The Aramaic for ''I create as I speak'' is avara k’davara, or in magician’s language, abracadabra.) . . . This does not protect words from the numbing effects of overuse in any religious tradition. . . . We need to dust off the words, shake away the accretions, wonder again about what they ...