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My thoughts, assertions and observations on issues important to me as a Jew, a Zionist, a Revenant in Yesha and as an inquisitive human being.
About Me
- YMedad
- Shiloh, Benjamin District, Samaria, Israel
- American born, my wife and I moved to Israel in 1970. We have lived at Shiloh together with our family since 1981. I was in the Betar youth movement in the US and UK. I have worked as a political aide to Members of Knesset and a Minister during 1981-1994, lectured at the Academy for National Studies 1977-1994, was director of Israel's Media Watch 1995-2000 and currently, I work at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. I was a guest media columnist on media affairs for The Jerusalem Post, op-ed contributor to various journals and for six years had a weekly media show on Arutz 7 radio. I serve as an unofficial spokesperson for the Jewish Communities in Judea & Samaria.
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5 comments:
You appear to have a decidedly non-Talmudic (or Biblical for that matter!) appreciation of the Rainbow. What gives?
mnuez
(I mean I like it, I'm just slightly surprised.)
Why? Have I no soul? No appreciation for the beauty of nature? Have you faith in me as a human?
I appreciate the echos of Shylock but your seemingly hurt response leads me to believe that what I had assumed was a rather uniformly Orthodox approach to rainbows may not be.
In the Yeshivish world rainbows are not greeting with clicks of a shutter but rather with tzitters and shudders - on account of the Noach story and the Gemara's dire (and dour) approach to the whole matter of this colorful spectrum in the sky. I was therefore surprised by this post of yours as I had (apparently mistakenly) assumed that similar religious views regarding rainbows held sway among the non-Yeshivishly Orthodox as well.
My apologies for what must have seemed an insult, it was honestly meant as a surprised compliment.
mnuez
Shudders? We pronounce a blessing in joy: "Blessed be...He who confirms his Covenant".
True, but the Gemara does say that everytime a rainbow appears it's a sign that God would like nothing more than to then-and-there obliterate the Earth but that he only refrains on account of that covenant. Hence the Yeshivish attitude.
m
P.S. Don't kill the messenger. I simply report the facts as they are, I do not endorse them.
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