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Sep. 30th, 2011 07:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanarillToday, I went to the beach.
This is because I was doing tashlikh. When I was in the land of Michigan, I did it in local streams. Now that I am a ten-minute walk from the Pacific Ocean, I used that instead. Then a seagull came and ate the bread, so I suppose my sins have done some good in the world and thus it was a lucky tashlikh. I just couldn't stop thinking "Mine? Mine?" as I watched it, though.
I do not like the rabbi at the Hillel House. By which I mean that, while I am aware that the Second Vatican allowed Catholic services in local languages, I happen to like doing the prayers in the original Hebrew rather than badly-translated semi-poetic English*. I also dislike responsive reading of said poorly-translated prayers. And in general, skipping half the prayers, by which I mean doing the first half of each prayer and then getting bored and moving on, is just plain lazy. But the absolute worst is that when singing the prayers, you have to use a tune which is actually singable, and not slow it down to the pace of a geriatric snail. I go to Hillel to feel part of a community, not be irritated that I know more about my religion than my so-called rabbi. Thank goodness there's a Chabad a block away that I can try out. Then I suppose I will have to choose the lesser of two evils.
(The problem with Chabadniks is that they think if a woman struts her stuff, she's a slut, and that in general women are a distraction from their job of Torah-study. Because it's not like 60% of college students are women. It's not like other cultures get along fine with women wearing less modest clothing simply by living with it enough that a glimpse of ankle is not scandalous and shocking. It's not like women can have careers and be mothers since the advent of things like dishwashers made housekeeping a less than full-time job. No, the Chabadniks stick to the outdated, outmoded, parochial, Traditional way. They do, however, have this way of blasting through an entire service, in Hebrew and without skipping anything, in about twenty minutes. So there's that. Like I said, lesser of two evils.)
The way I bike around all the time means I am getting ~30 minutes of cardio a day. This is a Good and Healthy Thing.
Home tomorrow :)
* It's very bad. The phrase "hakay et sheenav" does not mean "set him straight." It means "knock his teeth out." That's one example, but these translators see to have gone out of their way to sanitize the fact that a burnt sacrifice involves killing something. Idiots.
This is because I was doing tashlikh. When I was in the land of Michigan, I did it in local streams. Now that I am a ten-minute walk from the Pacific Ocean, I used that instead. Then a seagull came and ate the bread, so I suppose my sins have done some good in the world and thus it was a lucky tashlikh. I just couldn't stop thinking "Mine? Mine?" as I watched it, though.
I do not like the rabbi at the Hillel House. By which I mean that, while I am aware that the Second Vatican allowed Catholic services in local languages, I happen to like doing the prayers in the original Hebrew rather than badly-translated semi-poetic English*. I also dislike responsive reading of said poorly-translated prayers. And in general, skipping half the prayers, by which I mean doing the first half of each prayer and then getting bored and moving on, is just plain lazy. But the absolute worst is that when singing the prayers, you have to use a tune which is actually singable, and not slow it down to the pace of a geriatric snail. I go to Hillel to feel part of a community, not be irritated that I know more about my religion than my so-called rabbi. Thank goodness there's a Chabad a block away that I can try out. Then I suppose I will have to choose the lesser of two evils.
(The problem with Chabadniks is that they think if a woman struts her stuff, she's a slut, and that in general women are a distraction from their job of Torah-study. Because it's not like 60% of college students are women. It's not like other cultures get along fine with women wearing less modest clothing simply by living with it enough that a glimpse of ankle is not scandalous and shocking. It's not like women can have careers and be mothers since the advent of things like dishwashers made housekeeping a less than full-time job. No, the Chabadniks stick to the outdated, outmoded, parochial, Traditional way. They do, however, have this way of blasting through an entire service, in Hebrew and without skipping anything, in about twenty minutes. So there's that. Like I said, lesser of two evils.)
The way I bike around all the time means I am getting ~30 minutes of cardio a day. This is a Good and Healthy Thing.
Home tomorrow :)
* It's very bad. The phrase "hakay et sheenav" does not mean "set him straight." It means "knock his teeth out." That's one example, but these translators see to have gone out of their way to sanitize the fact that a burnt sacrifice involves killing something. Idiots.
