Rabbi Eli'ezer & the Christian



When
he came
to his house,
his disciples came to
comfort him, but he was inconsolable.
Rabbi Akiva said to him:
"Allow me to say to you one of the things that you have taught me"
 [an honorific euphemism for the student teaching the teacher].
He said to him:
"Say!"
 He said to him:
"Rabbi, perhaps you heard a Christian word, and it gave you pleasure,
and because of that you were arrested for sectarianism."
He said:
"By heaven, you have reminded me.
Once I was walking in the upper market of Sepphoris,
and one of the disciples of Jesus the Nazarene,
a man by the name of Jacob of Kefar Sekhania,
met up with me.
[In the midrash version,
we find here, as in the Tosefta:
"and he said a word of sectarianism in the name of Yeshu the son of Pantiri,
and it caused me pleasure,"
and then the addition,
"and this is what the matter was."
{Ben Stara is Ben Pantera}]
He said to me,
"It is written in your Torah:
"Do not bring the wages of a protitute or the proceeds of a dog
[to the house of your Lord]"
{Deut. 23:19}.
What about using them to build a latrine for the High Priest?'
And I said nothing to him.
And he told me that thus had taught Jesus his teacher:
"It was gathered from the wages of a prostitute,
and to the wages of a prostitute it will return
[Micah 1;7]"
-
it comes from a place of filth,
and to a place of filth it will return'
[i.e. for building a latrine one may use the proceeds of a prostitute],
and the matter gave me pleasure,
and for that I was arrested for sectarianism,
since I had violated that which is written:
KEEP HER WAYS FAR AWAY FROM YOU!"
(Proverbs 5:cool!.
Babylonian Talmud Avoda Zara 17a,
ms Rabbinowitz 15,
JTSA

Morgen
zien we
wel weer verder
bij leven en welzijn:
 maar die overeen-
komsten tussen toen en nu
blijven treffend als je hier ook de belastingbetalende
onderwereld naastzet met bordeelvergunningen, old & new
red light districts, coffee shops met met voor- & achterdeurbeleid &
het geld dat gebruikt wordt voor ons 'algemeen welzijn' inclusief de betalingen
van 'het Volk' aan 'het Huis van Oranje' [en de derde en vierde wereld met uitbuiting,
armoede, vrouwenhandel, kinderarbeid,
seksueel misbruik
e.d.!]?!

Was
het bijna
2000 jaar geleden
een groot probleem ten aanzien
van 't Tempelgeld, de Roof door Romeinse Ambtenaren,
publieke waterleidingen & aquaducten,
megalomane bouwprojecten
NU
is 't
ons eigen beleid
t.a.v. de HSL, Betuwelijn, nieuwe havens, windmolenparken
in zee, nationale luchthavens en ga zo maar verder en
door: inkomsten & uitgaven, religie & politiek,
gebedshuizen en afwerkplekken, junkies,
dak- & thuislozen, aanslagplegers,
de zuchtige Shababhangjongeren,
skinheads, Hells
Angels?
bah!
knipoog
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