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sometimes, when an older Jew speaks, Jews in the audience will hear resonances of things that gentiles probably miss
references to many things, whether he intended them or not
references to many things, whether he intended them or not
and it’s not just one temple—the original—we think of when we think of a temple vandalized, smashed glass, an office rifled through... people desecrating a sacred place, carelessly.
it’s such a common experience for Jews in the diaspora.
it hurts so deeply in our hearts, i wonder if it’s a specific kind of epigenetic trauma. how many windows of how many jewish places have we found in pieces? how many times did we find the sefer torah in the mud outside?
it hurts so deeply in our hearts, i wonder if it’s a specific kind of epigenetic trauma. how many windows of how many jewish places have we found in pieces? how many times did we find the sefer torah in the mud outside?
Schumer speaks in a rhetoric that can never be as powerful to gentiles as it is to Jews b/c gentiles just don’t have the same cultural referents & won’t feel the same wrench in the heart.
But we can only speak in words that come naturally to us, after all.
But we can only speak in words that come naturally to us, after all.
obviously the story of Chanukah is a temple desecration story most gentiles know well.
the smashed glass moment Jews probably think about more often is much more recent. in some ways, that night never ended.
the smashed glass moment Jews probably think about more often is much more recent. in some ways, that night never ended.
A brilliant thread meditating on a similar topic; h/t @J_Lefkovitz
I noticed how similar this image of the temple in Jerusalem seems to the Capitol in DC—how similar they both look in their moment of being besieged. https://twitter.com/zuckiershlomo/status/1346948329406517249
I noticed how similar this image of the temple in Jerusalem seems to the Capitol in DC—how similar they both look in their moment of being besieged. https://twitter.com/zuckiershlomo/status/1346948329406517249
