[HANASHIR:6289] RE: Counting the weeks [an experiment]

[Adrian Durlester <durleste...>]

Ros:

I would have to weigh in as opposed to your proposal. First, I think it
trivializes the meaning of serious ritual counting, like the Omer, and gives
undo importance to the HN workshop. Secondly, it is exclusionary and
offensive and/or irrelevant to those who do not/cannot attend HN. Thirdly, I
find it a somewhat sensationalistic practice, and one that smacks of
Madison-Avenue style hype. As well meaning as it is, I just don't see it as
appropriate. And as list-owner, I feel compelled to discourage the idea.

Sorry to be a wet blanket.

Adrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org [mailto:owner-hanashir (at) 
> shamash(dot)org]On
> Behalf Of Roslyn Schwartz
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 8:41 PM
> To: Hanashir
> Subject: [HANASHIR:6288] Counting the weeks [an experiment]
>
>
> Hi to all of you,
>
> At HN this year we learned of the importance of counting, as we counted
> the Omer every day.
>
> Several of my recent e-mail correspondents have ended their letters with
> the phrase:  see you in fifty weeks!
>
> So the idea appeals to me of Counting our figurative Omer toward HN next
> year ... posting a weekly e-mail titled Counting, with the text body
> something like "forty-nine weeks to go" ... or some variation on that
> theme.  I had never counted the Omer before, & it felt like a
> significant thing to do.
>
> Please e-mail me privately & tell me what you think ... if you think
> this is ridiculous, will clog up the airways, clutter your inbox, upset
> people who can't attend, etc. etc. etc., be kind in how you tell me! ...
> and I will or will not go ahead, depending on what people say.
>
> Nervously,
>
> - Ros
>
>

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