tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post5391168447403812068..comments2024-02-08T00:38:57.594-05:00Comments on Talmud תלמוד by Tzvee Zahavy: Velveteen Rabbi on the Joys of Davening in JerusalemTzvee Zahavyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15833902273722124103noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-7225588642865021672008-07-03T01:28:00.000-04:002008-07-03T01:28:00.000-04:00Thanks for the signal boost; I'm glad you enjoyed ...Thanks for the signal boost; I'm glad you enjoyed the post!<BR/><BR/>And John, the Blues Brothers reference made me laugh. I love that movie. My first Jewish Renewal Shabbat services -- under a tent, in a field, with singing and dancing and tambourines and a lot of joy -- definitely had that kind of feel. (That was in the Catskills, for what it's worth. Elat Chayyim is its own kind of holy land.)rbarenblathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882606147795083729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-36916953778174404072008-06-30T01:52:00.000-04:002008-06-30T01:52:00.000-04:00"Meanwhile - abrupt interruption to a journey of t..."Meanwhile - abrupt interruption to a journey of the spirit - we were trapped again for Shabbat //in the galut// in a synagogue where the main greeting amongst the members is, "What are you doing here?" and the main concern in shul is making sure nobody takes your seat and one topic of the Noon conversation at lunch was whether it could be remotely true that our Rabbi so-and-so earns $400,000 a year. "<BR/><BR/>Really, that's a New York and I guess New Jersey problem. Perhaps you haven't travelled the rest of the Galut recently...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-28873067890505984152008-06-29T12:18:00.000-04:002008-06-29T12:18:00.000-04:00It sounds a bit like the scene in the movie the "B...It sounds a bit like the scene in the movie the "Blues Brothers" where Belushi and Akroid attend a fundamentalist Baptist service with James Brown as the Preacher. (I don't intend to disparage the writer's obvious reverence for the real thing. I only mean that it sounds very festive; almost otherworldly.) It's more proof of the daily social and religious intercourse between G-d and mankind.John D. Enrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06543557857255394818noreply@blogger.com