There’s some kind of crazy thing going on, between R Yehuda Hanassi and the Roman Emperor Antigonos ben socho or so (sochus or some such?) and I think it had to do with the power of television, amongst other things.
Fellow Israelite Goyophile Lenny Bruce had a routine “How the Jew and the Black got into show bizness.”
The Black sang beautifulsongs
OhLOHDOh LAhd!
“Hey, listen to him,he sings pretty good!” The masters say, they sit down to listen
Sang his ass right off the farm
The jew had a hipper boss.
You couldn’t get the Egyptian so easily.
“Thank you. Now get back to work, you!”
{Right away Bruce swears that slave owning Americans must have ultimately been more reasonably open to mellow than that which Israel once kived under. YHL}
So the Jew had to learn to be really charming. Always funny, always charming to get by
Lenny Bruce believed that American Law was the true evolved child of the once good law of Moses, which, in it’s old context, could only do it’s best to keep people from shitting in the food room.
but that it’s own protective rightness would guide it towards secular moral correctness… Alas, he forgot about all the different forms and little coups that can ahppen in a moment beyond some reasonable supposition of what to expect
and he overdosed on dumb old Pharmys,or “Bennies” as a previous generation called them. But any Tzaddik who dies does that with a certain will to go beyond the living earth, to find the magical land of truth beyond what I had to deal with yesterday. But he also reflects alot of Jews in America in the Yimai kadmonios ([good old days]) felt about America: Just like Jewish Christians felt about the Christ. “Here’s the universal (completed) version of what our old, mysterious law was reaching for.
We should be zoche to understand the contexts of our histories and current-cies, how to use it without hurting ourselves, that is,when to remember to trust and when to let the paranoid alarm ring in good concience. hmmm!
But yeah, good theater and good culture seduced both Simcha Bunim and many a Tanna. It helps! We all hope, it’s not burning away our minds
any slower/faster than the Torah?
I hope!
New York feels like a mikva to me sometimes
Of perspective.
There’s just all these different people! Everywhere!
