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cremainsDown the streets I often see priests, monks, and nuns, some of them Armenians, but many of them are just visiting for a few years of study. What I wonder is, the Christians from Western countries who just show up for awhile, what do they make of Israel, and of being, theoretically anyway, under a government mostly made of Jews? When they walk in the Old City, do they feel guilty? If they don't, why don't they? If they do, does anything in their behaviour or theology change? Or really do they assume it's all theirs anyway, and any Jews are besides the point?
I made some new art.
Recently and reluctantly I've been introspective, mostly on why I am such a Talmud fundamentalist to the point of being a bit like the Society for Creative Anacronisms, egalitarian edition. Is it a psychological difficulty I have? Is it a harmless impulse for truth that manifests in ways that are, as someone put it recently, religiously prideful? (The two probably most annoying things are that it seems right to me to pronounce things during prayer as the gemara thinks they should be pronounced, and when I can get away with it - eg at home or studying in yeshiva - sometimes wearing tefillin outside of morning prayers)
It's funny how the Gra-obsessed segment of Chareidi society, which I work so hard to undermine*, has influenced me, even to the point of occasionally resetting what kind of behaviour I intuit as normal or abnormal (e.g. tefillin use).
*most importantly the misogyny being internalised by my stepkids
I made some new art.
Recently and reluctantly I've been introspective, mostly on why I am such a Talmud fundamentalist to the point of being a bit like the Society for Creative Anacronisms, egalitarian edition. Is it a psychological difficulty I have? Is it a harmless impulse for truth that manifests in ways that are, as someone put it recently, religiously prideful? (The two probably most annoying things are that it seems right to me to pronounce things during prayer as the gemara thinks they should be pronounced, and when I can get away with it - eg at home or studying in yeshiva - sometimes wearing tefillin outside of morning prayers)
It's funny how the Gra-obsessed segment of Chareidi society, which I work so hard to undermine*, has influenced me, even to the point of occasionally resetting what kind of behaviour I intuit as normal or abnormal (e.g. tefillin use).
*most importantly the misogyny being internalised by my stepkids
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Date: 2010-10-26 11:51 am (UTC)With the monks and nuns, though, surely it must be a different story? When they read all this stuff about the Pharisees being wicked, and the Temple being such a bad business, and many parts in John... I imagine if that's what a person studied and thought, it would be a very different experience seeing people cry at the Kotel.