It’s a very difficult subject-some seem to have a clear path that seeks to define itself without effort, as they go along their lives. Others struggle in a quagmire of angst and decision paralysis (especially if they’re intelligent and have more choices, ironically). Those whom find themselves in neither situation tend to very much homogenise completely, which, whilst it’s beautiful in terms of unity, as you mention, effectively snuffs out individuality. This is hugely frustrating when one considers the whole corpus of potential lost, even sacrificed to this uniformity. I think of this often when I speak to my children. Todah rabah for addressing this subject. It makes me think how it could tie into baseless hatred and the loss of our Temple- fear of baseless judgement would further cripple all bravery to express uniquely that which HaSh-m authored within us. We have a watered-down version of this now. Sigh.
I'm smiling because the Rabbi just reminded me of the same anecdote I lived when my youngest son was 5 years old. He came to tell that he was "in love" with xyz girl but that he couldn't be her boyfriend because there were 2 other girls "in love" with him. I looked at him feigning to be puzzled and he looked back at me "don't you get it? If I accept xyz, the other 2 girls will be hurt and I just can't do that!". On another note, every time I listen to R. Tatz, I believe that's his best shiur. Then I run into another one, and I say, no, THIS one is the best one. I'm mesmerized. Thank you Rabbi for your amazing teachings. You cannot begin to comprehend what today's have done for me!
This is interesting. I'm not Jewish in the religious sense, I'm a adopted with no ties to the Jewish religion, but my ethnicity is. Some things are fascinating and some things I don't agree with at all. Like the blunt rejection of transgender and polyamory. If anything given to you comes from God, then so does also your inclination to be queer. If you are born as a man but are a woman inside or nonbinary it's meant to be that way, exactly. It's your personal process for a reason. It's the same with polyamory, for both men and women. It's not up to us to limit something that is given as natural. Thus it can't be rejected by anyone else. You know who you are. Noone else can judge that or the way you choose to deal with your personal challenge. Modern music is not chaos. 😅 Jazz is very mathematic. Soul is too. All music is. Even punk and techno (although I don't care for it). Poetry does not have to be metric to be great. The greatness is in the expression, the embodiment of recognition and estrangement. It's not chaos just because it is deconstructed.
What a beautiful shiur! Thank you, Rabbi Tatz!
Kol hakavod Rabbi Tatz. Todarabaraba. Brilliant as usual B"H. Dr.Hannah Bracha Meir. South Africa./Israel
It’s a very difficult subject-some seem to have a clear path that seeks to define itself without effort, as they go along their lives. Others struggle in a quagmire of angst and decision paralysis (especially if they’re intelligent and have more choices, ironically). Those whom find themselves in neither situation tend to very much homogenise completely, which, whilst it’s beautiful in terms of unity, as you mention, effectively snuffs out individuality. This is hugely frustrating when one considers the whole corpus of potential lost, even sacrificed to this uniformity. I think of this often when I speak to my children. Todah rabah for addressing this subject. It makes me think how it could tie into baseless hatred and the loss of our Temple- fear of baseless judgement would further cripple all bravery to express uniquely that which HaSh-m authored within us. We have a watered-down version of this now. Sigh.
I'm smiling because the Rabbi just reminded me of the same anecdote I lived when my youngest son was 5 years old. He came to tell that he was "in love" with xyz girl but that he couldn't be her boyfriend because there were 2 other girls "in love" with him. I looked at him feigning to be puzzled and he looked back at me "don't you get it? If I accept xyz, the other 2 girls will be hurt and I just can't do that!".
On another note, every time I listen to R. Tatz, I believe that's his best shiur. Then I run into another one, and I say, no, THIS one is the best one. I'm mesmerized. Thank you Rabbi for your amazing teachings. You cannot begin to comprehend what today's have done for me!
Each time I hear this one (and others, too), I hear more and the Moore goes deeper.
Naprimer molitva Hanuke ja plačem kad se molim a za nekog to ne znači ništa. Hvala istinu pričate, ja to nisam znao a sad mi je potrebno.
This is interesting. I'm not Jewish in the religious sense, I'm a adopted with no ties to the Jewish religion, but my ethnicity is. Some things are fascinating and some things I don't agree with at all. Like the blunt rejection of transgender and polyamory. If anything given to you comes from God, then so does also your inclination to be queer. If you are born as a man but are a woman inside or nonbinary it's meant to be that way, exactly. It's your personal process for a reason. It's the same with polyamory, for both men and women. It's not up to us to limit something that is given as natural. Thus it can't be rejected by anyone else. You know who you are. Noone else can judge that or the way you choose to deal with your personal challenge.
Modern music is not chaos. 😅 Jazz is very mathematic. Soul is too. All music is. Even punk and techno (although I don't care for it). Poetry does not have to be metric to be great. The greatness is in the expression, the embodiment of recognition and estrangement. It's not chaos just because it is deconstructed.
Gods suffering ?