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Friday, February 25th, 2011
Passover Haggadah
Can someone please help me with this poem please? What is it about?
Feinstein, Elaine : Eclipse [from Daylight (1997) , Carcanet ]
1 On both sides of the gardens the tall
2 houses have put out their lights.
3 Now the cypress is blue and furry,
4 night creatures move quietly in the long grass,
5 and, as if in the ages before electricity,
6 the moon is a white lantern over the birch trees.
7 Grandchildren, indulged after the Passover seder,
8 have stopped using the mouse on my apple mac
9 to stare through the window at the luminous ball
10 like primitive people in a world of miracles.
11 This year, Katriona read the questions from the Haggadah;
12 Lara knew the ancient stories. Now three generations
13 sit together, imagining ourselves on the globe
14 of the earth, and trying to believe it is our own
15 brown shadow moving over the moon.
Thank you your help is very much appreciated
Think about the parallel between nature and technology, and the way passover--which is about salvation through an exodus, in case u didn't know-- is juxtaposed to the moon. "Trying to believe it is our own brown shadow moving over the moon." I'm assuming you are analyzing this poem for a class? Talk about how in the face of nature, the three generations sort of unite in their human commonality. Instead of an exodus across a desert, I think what the poet is suggesting is more of an exodus across the universe (as evidenced by the image of the shadows moving across the moon)-- the "world of miracles" can be found now only in the unknown, in space, and that is the next place we will all find salvation.
Of course, I am writing this in like two minutes, so I'm sure if you analyzed it for longer you could find more, and explain it more coherently.
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
Velvet Jewish
Who sings this song? His first name is Lou, he's Jewish.. popular in the 70s-now?
It's not Lou Reed from the Velvet Underground that was friends w/Bowie, it's another Lou. He's more folk than anything and within a song he sings about tangerine tea from China.
Anyone know?
Sorry, name is Leonard.
Leonard Cohen. And the line you're relating is "And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China." It's from his song, "Suzanne".
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Silver Passover
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Are the Christian Gospels a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book?
The ultimate ending of the story is always the same, but the decisions YOU, the reader, make determine:
· Whether jesus will be made to carry his cross the entire time or whether some guy named Simon will carry the cross for a while;
· Where and when someone will anoint jesus, and whether it will be on his head or his feet, and with what spices;
· Whether Judas will take the silver pieces from the priests and buy a field with them, or whether he will return the silver pieces and then hang himself;
· Whether the Last Supper will be a Passover Seder or the night BEFORE Passover;
· How many days jesus will lie in the tomb;
· To whom he will appear afterwards; or
· Who will prevail? Paul or Peter?
And so much more!
Lol.
The funny thing is that these four Gospels were selected out of hundreds of pseudographica that were floating around at the time.
And these were the four that contradicted each other the least, mostly because at least three of them used the same source material.
As for the people who claim these are eyewitness accounts.....well, simple is as simple does.
At least that's whut mah mahmma always tole me.
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Pesach Seder
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When does Pesach technically end?
When I was little I was told that American Jews celebrate Pesach in 8 days and have 2 seders, even thought Jews in Israel celebrate the holiday in 7 days, and only have the seder on the first night, and this was because American Jews wants to make sure they celebrate it according to the time of Israel while we are in different time zones. If this is truely the case, then why do most conservative (which I am) Jews celebrate Pesach till sundown traditionally instead of waiting till around noon the eighth day?
The injunction in the Torah (in Exodus), is to observe Passover for seven days. That's the way that most American Reform congregations do it. As with several other Jewish holidays (Rosh Hashanah immediately comes to mind), Orthodox practice is to add a "buffer" day, which means that Orthodox congregations observe Passover for eight days. Most Conservative congregations observe it for eight days, like the Orthodox.
Jews in Israel (meaning not in the Diaspora) generally do not add the extra day to such holidays as Passover. My understanding is that the extra day was added due to calendar uncertainties in the former days, and the slow speed at getting messages to communities in the Diaspora. That reasoning wouldn't have applied to Jews living in Israel.
I've never heard of time zones having any impact, other than determining when local sundown begins.
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Silver Shabbat
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