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April 04, 2007
V'Hi She'amda
I was going through old emails in one of my sporadic attempts to practice good email hygiene, and found a slightly outdated but relevant one from frequent commenter Alex Bensky. Unfortunately, this sentiment is still apropos, and as Alex points out, probably always will be:
For such interest as it may hold for you, Judith Klinghoffer sent a Passover greetings e-mail to her list and this was my response:
I love Passover and my favorite moment probably is the point at which we reminds ourselves that not only in the time of Pharaoh but in every generation they have risen up against us. Sometimes I enjoy the irony that in five hundred years the only people who will remember Yasser Arafat, that malevolent manifestation of a deranged people, will be Jews, because he will be just another name on the long, long list of those who rose up against us, to wipe us out, but did not succeed.
The science fiction writer, Dan Simmons, was asked to contribute to a year 2000 anthology about life in the year 3000. He wrote that he thought for quite a while about what would be common between now and a thousand years from now and then it came to him in perfect clarity: "The one constant thread between today and a thousand years from now will be that someone, somewhere, will be planning to kill the Jews."
On the other hand, Dr. Klinghoffer, I firmly expect that in the year 3001 there will be Jews and they will sit down to seder and recite, "Not only in the time of Pharaoh but in every generation..." Of course, their list will be longer. The list will never end but, I rather think, neither will we.
Judith | 04/04/07 at 07:14 PM | Categories: - Chagim
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Historically, I have followed the news and then not followed it. That led me to experience an odd sequence of events. 1) Seeing the diagram in Time showing how Israeli commandos just missed killing Arafat in his home in Morocco, 2) Arafat is installed as the leader in the Palestinian teritories. I know you have enemies but choosing the unrepentant delegee of the Mufti seems not to be making a distinction. I know I missed more than something.
michael | April 24, 2006 12:26 AM
