http://aharon.varady.net/omphalos/2008/06/jeer-at-them spinning navel lint into fine yarn Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:07:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://aharon.varady.net/omphalos/2008/06/jeer-at-them/comment-page-1#comment-83 aharon Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:09:14 +0000 http://aharon.varady.net/omphalos/?p=142#comment-83 I should have also mentioned that Blake's original poem references a myth that Jesus once walked in the British Isles, and the desire to build a "New Jeruslem" in a messianic age. In Lavie's satire, Jesus' tread upon English soil is replaced with the late Lubavitcher Rebbe's upon the fields of Postville, Iowa. In doing so, CHaBaD Lubavitch messianism is satired as rank hypocrisy. Instead of helping to create this messianic age, Aaron Rubashkin brought about cruelty and exploitation and pollution. Rubashkin, the OU and their minions explain that they should be applauded for providing kosher meat to the meat hungry Jewish masses and thus allow Jews to eat meat according to halakhic Judaism. But I was taught that performing an averah in order to fulfill a mitzvah is unacceptable. This is the corruption of the dream of the messianic age, the dream that all the righteous will be fed with the meat of the Leviatan and the Behemot and the Ziz. The dream of endless meat is revealed as a nightmare of cruelty, pollution, lies, and the failure of Orthodox Jewish authority. I should have also mentioned that Blake’s original poem references a myth that Jesus once walked in the British Isles, and the desire to build a “New Jeruslem” in a messianic age. In Lavie’s satire, Jesus’ tread upon English soil is replaced with the late Lubavitcher Rebbe’s upon the fields of Postville, Iowa. In doing so, CHaBaD Lubavitch messianism is satired as rank hypocrisy. Instead of helping to create this messianic age, Aaron Rubashkin brought about cruelty and exploitation and pollution. Rubashkin, the OU and their minions explain that they should be applauded for providing kosher meat to the meat hungry Jewish masses and thus allow Jews to eat meat according to halakhic Judaism. But I was taught that performing an averah in order to fulfill a mitzvah is unacceptable. This is the corruption of the dream of the messianic age, the dream that all the righteous will be fed with the meat of the Leviatan and the Behemot and the Ziz. The dream of endless meat is revealed as a nightmare of cruelty, pollution, lies, and the failure of Orthodox Jewish authority.

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