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selkie at 09:21pm on 23/03/2007
selkie at 09:21pm on 23/03/2007...so we just went to Jewish night at the Unitarian church.
THEY TOOK GOD OUT.
"Blessed be shabbat, our ancient celebration for all time, that commands us to bless these candles."
You think I'm joking.
No. No, we did not get struck by lightning, but we fled as soon after the not!Kiddush as decently possible. Right after the hippy guitarist stopped singing the ungendered version of Lekhah Dodi.
Yes.
No, I don't know how they. I know. Uh-huh. Just move on.
When aging hippies finally have to leave the kibbutz, go home to the District and be brokers, this is how they worship. They make it up and they name themselves Golden Shower in Hebrew.
By the way, since Shabbes did not in fact command us to do anything, but Someone commanded us to remember Shabbes, I sort of muttered the real thing behind my tightly clenched teeth.
....I was afraid of the lightning.
N had a horrible allergic reaction to the challah while we were at it. I think it was a sign. As soon as I got out to the parking lot, I cried. And then I tried to convince her to take an allergy pill.
Look, I'm not trying to sound elitist here, but if you call yourself a Jew, you can't just go on and make shit up and throw in a guitar and some gender-neutrality and call it a sabbath service. You can't give shabbes credit. You have to give someone credit FOR shabbes. That;s the RELIGION part. How on earth would you even say the sh'ma if you take God out?
THEY TOOK GOD OUT.
"Blessed be shabbat, our ancient celebration for all time, that commands us to bless these candles."
You think I'm joking.
No. No, we did not get struck by lightning, but we fled as soon after the not!Kiddush as decently possible. Right after the hippy guitarist stopped singing the ungendered version of Lekhah Dodi.
Yes.
No, I don't know how they. I know. Uh-huh. Just move on.
When aging hippies finally have to leave the kibbutz, go home to the District and be brokers, this is how they worship. They make it up and they name themselves Golden Shower in Hebrew.
By the way, since Shabbes did not in fact command us to do anything, but Someone commanded us to remember Shabbes, I sort of muttered the real thing behind my tightly clenched teeth.
....I was afraid of the lightning.
N had a horrible allergic reaction to the challah while we were at it. I think it was a sign. As soon as I got out to the parking lot, I cried. And then I tried to convince her to take an allergy pill.
Look, I'm not trying to sound elitist here, but if you call yourself a Jew, you can't just go on and make shit up and throw in a guitar and some gender-neutrality and call it a sabbath service. You can't give shabbes credit. You have to give someone credit FOR shabbes. That;s the RELIGION part. How on earth would you even say the sh'ma if you take God out?
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