Re: Kol isha: a shocking revelation

[Elliott <elliott16...>]

Joel - I would say the you WERE training your thoughts on the  DIVINE. The
other only thought they were.
        elllllllllllll
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From: "yoel" <yoel (at) netvision(dot)net(dot)il>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 2:19 AM
Subject: Kol isha: a shocking revelation


> I have been following this discussion only peripherally, so I might be
> saying something that has already been said, or that is so outrageous that
> no one has dared say it.
>
> In my youth, a hormone-exploding teenager, I remember sitting in synagogue
> on Yom Kippur, and, while all the old men droned away, mentally undressing
> all the women.  What delicious perversion! My friends' mothers,
classmates,
> all dolled up in those conservative, gray suits buttoned modestly up to
the
> neck, and those ridiculous hats - and there I was, grabbing them in
deserted
> rooms of the Sunday school building, pulling off their this and their
that,
> and they and me, desperate with passion and the total evil of it!
>
> Of course, these daydreams made the thinking of holy thoughts somewhat
> difficult.  In fact, the best part of it was that I was supposed to be
> thinking all these holy thoughts.  And instead here I was in this
libidinous
> swamp.
>
> Am I just a pervert? I don't think so.  In fact, I think that every male
is
> struggling with, and succumbing, to terrible temptations when he is
supposed
> to be training his thoughts on the divine.
>
> William Butler Yeats:
>
> "Fair and foul are near of kin,
> And fair needs foul," I cried.
> "My friends are gone, but that's a truth
> Nor grave nor bed denied,
> Learned in bodily lowliness
> And in the heart's pride.
> "A woman can be proud and stiff
> When on love intent;
> But Love has pitched his mansion in
> The place of excrement;
> For nothing can be sole or whole
> That has not been rent."
>
>
>
> Joel Epstein
> Moshav Magshimim, Israel
> tel: 972-3-9333316
>      972-52-333316
> fax: 972-9338751
> yoel (at) netvision(dot)net(dot)il
>
>
>

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