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And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend of Piglet's), R.C. (Rabbit's Companion), P.D. (Pole Discoverer), E.C. and T.F. (Eeyore's Comforter and Tail-finder)--in fact, Pooh himself--said something so clever that Christopher Robin could only look at him with mouth open and eyes staring, wondering if this was really the Bear of Very Little Brain whom he had know and loved so long.

Sunday, March 20, 2005

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esther as dawn take II: a pun
venahafoch hu - esther turns shachor to shachar.
(says Rav Goldvicht this week)

also, on yom kipur as ke-purim,
1-goral echad laShem, ve-goral echad al-azazel; hipil pur hu ha-goral
2-the sting that allegedly changed colors ("mithapech," acc to the gemara); venahafoch hu
3-the kohen gadol enters the kodesh kodashim twice on yom kippur, in special clotehs, though otherwise entering is punishable by death; esther goes to see the king, "vatilbash esther malchut," though that is normally punishable by death, and then meets him twice.

he basically tuned the first thing into an elaboration on ei mazal le-yisrael (israel are not governed by astrological happenings)- "pur" may be chance, but "goral" is not - it depends on our actions.

that's that for now.

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At 6:00 PM, miriam said...: many thanks for your thoughts!
i actually did hear the idea about afflicting mind vs. body (on the jm in the am, to which i listen religiously ;) ) just thursday morning - i thought it was really powerful, though not necessarily right. in fact, somewhat distrubing.
i'd like to try and formulate something about why i think that approach is problematic. bekitsur, i don't think that rational thought is not actually _the_ be all and end all of human experience. you can't never have it, but you should sometimes (in certain specific situations, and in general sometimes) not have it if you want to be a complete person. there are important, non-sechel parts of life. one of my ramim from midrashah explained drinking on purim (based on something chabad-ish, i think) with reference to the tri-iumverate of
~lemata min hasechel
~sechel
~lemalah min hasechel.

the goal on purim is to reach the last of these, of course, not the first.
anyway, yeah. i am also tempted to connect this to what tamar ross likes to say about three levels of religious experience
~preverbal - (childish or primitive basic faith structures) -preverbal
~verbal - (particulars of a given religous tradition)
~post-verbal - (an inexpressible spiritual thing - what she calls "mmm")
or something like that. it's been a while.

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"Bother!" said Pooh, as he opened it. "All that wet for nothing. What's that bit of paper doing?" He took it out and looked at it. "It's a Missage," he said to himself, "that's what it is. And that letter is a 'P,' and so is that, and so is that, and 'P' means 'Pooh,' so it's a very important Missage to me, and I can't read it. I must find Christopher Robin or Owl or Piglet, one of those Clever Readers who can read things, and they will tell me what this missage means. Only I can't swim. Bother!" Then he had an idea, and I think that for a Bear of Very Little Brain, it was a good idea. He said to himself: "If a bottle can float, then a jar can float, and if a jar floats, I can sit on the top of it, if it's a very big jar." ... "All boats have to have a name," he said, "so I shall call mine The Floating Bear." And with these words he dropped his boat into the water and jumped in after it. For a little while Pooh and The Floating Bear were uncertain as to which of them was meant to be on the top, but after trying one or two different positions, they settled down with The Floating Bear underneath and Pooh triumphantly astride it, paddling vigorously with his feet.

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