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You think things are upside-down on Purim?  I was walking past all the shops with costumes hanging on the street and thinking that only women get gussied up – or down – with very sexy outfits this year.  Considering the way women have been debased from October 7, and have proven themselves worthy of defense positions in the army, I find it ridiculous that they are promoting sexual and not regal wear.  And then I remembered the poem from Itzik Manger’s Megillah.

    

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Ezi has been going through the boxes of his family’s pictures – he’s never seen some of them.  Last week he discovered this photo – which I immediately grabbed and placed on my desk.  I can’t take my eyes off it and decided to share it with you.

Where is the embroidery from?  Who is this beautiful woman?  What is this jewelry?  It was customary for young women to dress up as Rebecca at the Well, but I can’t imagine what amazing photograph took this picture – It says on the back that the studio was in Jerusalem and the woman is a friend of Ezi’s grandmothers.  

This photo made the holiday for me.  

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time to consider values.  the fact that we have ‘overbought’ and have vaccinations to spare means that we can give some away.  But to make the giving conditional on political concessions is somewhat questionable to me,  morally.  Diplomatic decisions – not clinical ones.

and who decides?  the government? the prime minister?  

and who decides who deserves vaccines?  our neighbors?  

Precisely because of the reversal of values characteristic of Purim, I wrote this poem It is connected to my fear of the decisions we make in the inebriation of success. 

february 24, 2021 – another thought on purim Read Post »