sword & prostitute's booth eeuwig verborgen tekens


Er is dus duidelijk
een direct verband tussen
al die persoonlijke ervaringen,
helende teksten & vermoeden
van toen dat meer dan een halve eeuw
is doorgegroeid
& de diepe kloven
en spelonken overbrugt tussen
duizenden jaren geleden & ons hier en nu:
door middel van die woorden,
begrippen, talen en tekens
kom ik met voelen,
denken en doen
dichterbij wat is geweest
en zal zijn ~ in mijn hier en nu
vloeit dat samen!!

We waren dus gebleven
bij 'olam' & "elam" als de twee kanten
van eeuwigheid en verborgenheid
i/d naam?!!

And his wife
for execution [by the sword],
because she did not censure him.
And his daughter to sit in a prostitute's booth,
for Rabbi Yochanan said:
She was once walking
among the great of Rome,
and they said,
"How beautiful are the steps of this maiden!"

And she immediately became more meticulous about her steps!
This narrative explains the punishments
of the three members of the martyr's family and provides a version of a theodicy.
The explanations of the punishment of this Rabbi and of his daughter are doublets and highly gendered in their implications. Rabbi Hanina himself was condemned for doing something in public
that he should have done in private.

The two explanations
for his punishment, the "realistic" one,
that the Romans had arrested him for illegally teaching Torah in public
and the theodical one, that G d had arrested him for revealing His name to the public,
have to be read as comments upon each other.

It was appropriate, indeed,
for him to be pronouncing G d's name as it is written
and together with its vowels in order to instruct himself,
but this activity needed to be carried in private, according to Rabbi Yose the son of Kisma.
G d's name was given for hiding, not for
public exposure tot the eyes
of the hostile Romans.
In other words,
the text is proposing a homology
between the reasons for Rabbi Hanina's capture by the Romans
at both the pragmatic and the theological levels.
G d has meant the teaching of Torah to be a private,
internal activity for the Jewish people in a hostile world,
a "hidden transcript,"
and not a matter of provocation and defiance,
just as a chaste maiden
is meant to keep herself hidden from the eyes of lustful males
and certainly not to encourage and willfully attract
their gazes.

The Torah
is a bride for the Rabbis:
"Rabbi Hiyya taught: Anyone who studies Torah in front of one of the 'people of the land'
is like one who has intercourse with his fiancee
in front of them!"
By teaching
Torah in public, therefore,
Rabbi Hanina was engaged in an act
as provocative and as
immodest as that
of his daughter.
Wat je doet:
wees je ervan bewust
en maak dus ook 'n
duidelijk onderscheid
tussen wat wel of niet kan
in tijdelijke & eeuwige
ogen, oren, mond,
neus &
lippen.
blozen
Sleep well,
dream sweet &
tell us all about it
tomorrow when you want to
and still can
do so
engel
cool!
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