Love that you incorporated your friend’s review! Your humor plopped in your Drops like dollops of sour cream in black bean soup (not borscht which I do not like) give me such joy.
we see things not as they are but as we are....I go back some years, and yes, the word goyim was and is off-putting. Why not Gentile, which is less abrasive and is somewhat like gentle?
I recall how strange it seemed to me to discover that the elite reform gathering place in NY--hint: on Fifth Avenue--had an actual organ !
Of course, an "outsider" ie non Jew, might be upset to discover that in Orthodox shuls, women sit apart from men. Does that mean women are second-class? Or so that male minds would focus on the service and not the babes?
And there is this, too: when the Church (Catholic) changed from using Latin to English, much of the "magic" of incantation, lost to the non-Latin mind, became pedestrian. So too an ancient language, when employed, stretches back over time and ties the present to the past.
The one constant in change? The building fund reminder.
Love this! Would go with you anytime. :)
Love that you incorporated your friend’s review! Your humor plopped in your Drops like dollops of sour cream in black bean soup (not borscht which I do not like) give me such joy.
we see things not as they are but as we are....I go back some years, and yes, the word goyim was and is off-putting. Why not Gentile, which is less abrasive and is somewhat like gentle?
I recall how strange it seemed to me to discover that the elite reform gathering place in NY--hint: on Fifth Avenue--had an actual organ !
Of course, an "outsider" ie non Jew, might be upset to discover that in Orthodox shuls, women sit apart from men. Does that mean women are second-class? Or so that male minds would focus on the service and not the babes?
And there is this, too: when the Church (Catholic) changed from using Latin to English, much of the "magic" of incantation, lost to the non-Latin mind, became pedestrian. So too an ancient language, when employed, stretches back over time and ties the present to the past.
The one constant in change? The building fund reminder.