I sometimes wonder if antisemitism is a kind of superstiton that validates the scapegoating of others in order to conceal the shortcomings of those addicted to it?
well there are many superstitious elements to it, like Jews controlling the world while simultaneously not being able to get rid of the people that want to kill us. So there is that magical thinking😉 and yes antisemitism is all about useless people not wanting to accept their own shortcomings or inadequacies
Luckily I'm not wired for superstition but have several hamsa and learnedmore about them from your article.
I married a Moldovan immigrant who came over in 79 at age 9 and the levels of superstitions that the family possessed were endless. Sitting at the corner of a table was bad, cross breezes would make you sick, chatting in a doorway was bad and many more and I speculated that because communism took away their Judaism they substituted superstitions but never researched to a conclusive end.
She was prewired for Faith and had a Baal tshuva moment at the Western Wall after being a mocking secular dismissive of religion faithless atheist.
Regarding Adam and Eve the logic and Justice of that story elude me and are an injustice thus reinforcing my lack of faith but strengthening my tribal adherence bonds.🤷
Thank you for sharing this with us. I agree with you about mankind's need for rituals and superstition to have a feeling of being in control and cope with matters which mankind does not control or understand.
About religions and good and evil, many Christians, and the Jehovah witnesses believe that it's all about free will and redemption by following the new testament, after Eve & Adam chose - by their own free will - to follow Satan's offer, bevalt hevsaid they would be like G-d after eating the forbidden fruit.
I suppose mankind needs that extra security.
For now let's be grateful for the reunion of the 3 ladies and their friends and family and hope pray or whatever - everything to get all our hostages back. The fight against evil starts within, and I am somehow confident that may be part of a bigger plan - to conquer evil. May not forcibly be a plan by human nature.
Israël leaves no one behind. Israel will fight against this and other evil. Israel will win in the end. The whole world, all mankind could learn a good lesson from that.
My issue with the story of Adam and Eve is that unless you are taught about good and evil you have no free will in choosing because you were never taught about evil. Understanding what evil is is essential in being able to have free will in your choice.
I'm not superstitious but your post reminded me that my mother had told a story to me at least once about how a book opened to a certain page and how it had not only some significance, which on its own is not surprising, but that something in the happening was highly improbable without a supernatural explanation. This was something that happened before she and her family were sent to Auschwitz. I wish I could remember the story. I recall that at the time it did seem improbable to me but that was before I had any training in statistics and scientific thinking, so I am not sure what I would make of it now. I will see if the brother of mine with an impeccable memory remembers, if in fact he was ever told the same story. Thank you for triggering this partial memory. I wish I had guarded it more carefully through the years.
The moral of the story is ask everything you want to know from your parents while they're still alive and cognively functional. There can be many things you only think of too late. In a way it's failure of perspective taking because we only ask what is important to us at the time. We should also ask what will be important to us in the future, but of course this is much harder to do since we don't know who we will become. We could, however, try to anticipate that.
To that extent, my oldest son bought me the Mom Journal which is a book of questions that you should answer so they have some idea of what you thought about different things after you are gone. It's about 50 pages of questions.
I sometimes wonder if antisemitism is a kind of superstiton that validates the scapegoating of others in order to conceal the shortcomings of those addicted to it?
well there are many superstitious elements to it, like Jews controlling the world while simultaneously not being able to get rid of the people that want to kill us. So there is that magical thinking😉 and yes antisemitism is all about useless people not wanting to accept their own shortcomings or inadequacies
Luckily I'm not wired for superstition but have several hamsa and learnedmore about them from your article.
I married a Moldovan immigrant who came over in 79 at age 9 and the levels of superstitions that the family possessed were endless. Sitting at the corner of a table was bad, cross breezes would make you sick, chatting in a doorway was bad and many more and I speculated that because communism took away their Judaism they substituted superstitions but never researched to a conclusive end.
She was prewired for Faith and had a Baal tshuva moment at the Western Wall after being a mocking secular dismissive of religion faithless atheist.
Regarding Adam and Eve the logic and Justice of that story elude me and are an injustice thus reinforcing my lack of faith but strengthening my tribal adherence bonds.🤷
https://youtu.be/XunHP250lxQ
The title is punked by God deconstructing the garden of Eden.
Interesting post. Very respectfully suggest you might want to give Genesis a re-read. 😊
I have read Genesis several times. I have studied it with numerous scholars and read interpretations on my own as well. But thanks
Thank you for sharing this with us. I agree with you about mankind's need for rituals and superstition to have a feeling of being in control and cope with matters which mankind does not control or understand.
About religions and good and evil, many Christians, and the Jehovah witnesses believe that it's all about free will and redemption by following the new testament, after Eve & Adam chose - by their own free will - to follow Satan's offer, bevalt hevsaid they would be like G-d after eating the forbidden fruit.
I suppose mankind needs that extra security.
For now let's be grateful for the reunion of the 3 ladies and their friends and family and hope pray or whatever - everything to get all our hostages back. The fight against evil starts within, and I am somehow confident that may be part of a bigger plan - to conquer evil. May not forcibly be a plan by human nature.
Israël leaves no one behind. Israel will fight against this and other evil. Israel will win in the end. The whole world, all mankind could learn a good lesson from that.
My issue with the story of Adam and Eve is that unless you are taught about good and evil you have no free will in choosing because you were never taught about evil. Understanding what evil is is essential in being able to have free will in your choice.
Very good point !
Thanks
You forgot spitting three times to chase away the evil eye.
My bad!
I'm not superstitious but your post reminded me that my mother had told a story to me at least once about how a book opened to a certain page and how it had not only some significance, which on its own is not surprising, but that something in the happening was highly improbable without a supernatural explanation. This was something that happened before she and her family were sent to Auschwitz. I wish I could remember the story. I recall that at the time it did seem improbable to me but that was before I had any training in statistics and scientific thinking, so I am not sure what I would make of it now. I will see if the brother of mine with an impeccable memory remembers, if in fact he was ever told the same story. Thank you for triggering this partial memory. I wish I had guarded it more carefully through the years.
The Goral haGra?
Opening a book to a specific verse of a specific chapter, etc?
I bet the full story comes to you at 2am while you are sleeping.
The moral of the story is ask everything you want to know from your parents while they're still alive and cognively functional. There can be many things you only think of too late. In a way it's failure of perspective taking because we only ask what is important to us at the time. We should also ask what will be important to us in the future, but of course this is much harder to do since we don't know who we will become. We could, however, try to anticipate that.
To that extent, my oldest son bought me the Mom Journal which is a book of questions that you should answer so they have some idea of what you thought about different things after you are gone. It's about 50 pages of questions.