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blijft natuurlijk
een hoogst merkwaardige
zaak dat mydiverhaaltjes van
bijna 2000 jaar
geleden ook
NU & HIER
nog steeds
hun invloed doen gelden
op de bevolking{en} van alle landen/tijden!
WAT bedoelt men nu eigenlijk met 'mens' & 'mensenrechten'?
Wat moeten we nu [& hier nog steeds] met woorden als "G D",
'schepping', 'tien geboden', de synagogen & 't hemelse 'rijk g ds op aarde',
'de kerk{en}' & al die nieuwe
moskeeen?
Gekke Geertje
& Razende Rita
droegen hun steentjes bij
aan de 'moderne tijd', net als o.a.
Ons Pimmetje, Volkert de Stalkert, Theo
de Geitenneuker & Moehammad 'boemboem' Bouyari!
En wat [en waarom] deden/doen 'wij' ook alweer mee in Irak & Afghanistan, opbouw~ & ontwikkelingsministeries, ruimtevaartprojecten
& ons eigen 'huis-, tuin- & keuken~
verdriet/plezier'?

When
the sages
saw that his
mind was clear, they
went and sat down four
cubits from him.

He said to them:
"Why have you come?"
They said to him:
"To learn Torah we have come!"
He said tot them:
"And until now, why have you not come?"
They said:
"We didn't have time."
He said to them:
"I will be amazed if they will die a natural death."
Rabbi Akiva then said to him:
"What about me?"
He said:
"Yours is more severe than all of them."
He took his two arms and placed them on his heart and said:
"Aiih to these two arms that are like two Scrolls of the Torah.
I have learned much Torah, and I have taught much Torah.
I have learned much Torah and I didn't lose from the teaching of my masters
even as much as a dog licks from the sea. I have taught much Torah,
and my disciples have not lost from my teaching
so much as the brush
in its case."
"And not only that
but I teach three hundred laws in the matter of leprosy,
and no one ever asked me a question about them,
and in the planting of cucumbers, and no one ever asked me about them
except for Akiva ben Yosef.
Once he and I were walking on the way.
He said to me:
"Teach me their planting."
I said a word and the field was all full of cucumbers.
He said to me:
"Rabbi, you have taught me their planting,
now teach me their uprooting."
I said another word, and they were all gathered into one place."
The [sages then] said to him:
"A ball, a slipper, and a cameo that are
[made of leather and filled
with wool]."
He said to them:
"They are pure."

And his soul left hem in purity.

Rabbi Yehoshua stood on his feet and said:
"The vow is released. The vow is released!"

On the going out of the Sabbath,
he met Rabbi Akiva on the way [in the funeral procession] from Caesarea to Lydda.
He was flagellating his flesh until the blood flowed to the ground.

He opened his eulogy and said:
"My father, my father,
the chariot of Israel and its horseman"
{II Kings 2:12}
"I have many coins
and no banker to change them."
[TB Sanhedrin 68a]

That
was, of
course, the verse
that Elisha cried out
upon the death of Elijah.
[Elijah was a model
for Christian
ascetics!]
...

Among
its other
meanings, this story
certainly thematizes the conflicted
& conflictual aspect of the representation
of Rabbi Eli'ezer himself?
He is a kind of holy man, almost a magic worker, of a type for which rabbinic
relegiosity harbors a certain constant suspicion.
Yet he is the very type of an "orthodox"
Pharisee and halakhic authority
par excellence.

Indeed,
even Rabbi Eli'ezer's response
to his original excommunication
only confirms his sectarianism,
since he, like Jesus with the fig tree, reacted
by blasting a third of the olive crop,
a third of the wheat crop,
and a third of the barley crop,
"for everything
at which Rabbi Eli'ezer
cast his eyes
was burned
up."

Aan
de ene
kant hebben we
dus de zogenaamde 'realiteit',
en aan de andere kant allerlei fantastische 'mydibijbelverhaaltjes'!
Wat ligt er allemaal verborgen voor
[on]gelovigen tussen 'de oerknal
van 'n schepping', &
'de oercrunch van
'n eventuele
apocalyps'?

Minstens
1001 mydiverhaaltjes
over ons om onze dagen
& nachten door te brengen met
't aanschouwen van wat we
waarnemen & de 'vertering
ervan' in ons
dagelijks mydi~
leven
...