To clarify a few things
May. 21st, 2009 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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theantijoss's userpics for good icons. 99% of them are fully and totally fabulous, but there is one in particular that I would like to comment on that I think has a few errors.l-userpic.livejournal.com/81647836/1659013.
Panel seven states that polyester is an abomination. As if Jews don't wear polyester. I wish Jews didn't wear polyester! (You've never had to go to a bar mitzvah and see people in polyester leisure suits, have you?) What the passage actually says is "You shall observe My statutes: You shall not crossbreed your livestock with different species. You shall not sow your field with a mixture of seeds, and a garment which has a mixture of shaatnez shall not come upon you." This also covers panel ten, about vegetables. Here's the thing. The mixture of shaatnez is not polyester. Polyester is made of synthetic polymers (I've done my googling!). Shaatnez is an exclusively Judaic concept referring to a mixture of wool and linen. Occasionally turns up in suits or nice skirts. The vegetables thing actually refers to "kilayeen," which means mixing seed species. Very different than not being allowed to have vegetable gardens.
Panel eight speaks about bunnies as an abomination. Let's quote that: "And the hare, because it brings up its cud, but does not have a [completely] cloven hoof; it is unclean for you". Dude, this is talking about EATING bunnies. They don't fit in to the regulations of kashrut (that'd be "regarding following kosher") so we can't eat them. And I bet you think it's gross too!
Panel nine, re: hamburger: "And any man of the House of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who eats any blood, I will set My attention upon the soul who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people." Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. (Get that quote and get...a virtual hug) No eating blood, animals have to be slaughtered in a way so there is no blood in the meat. Don't you wish your meat was bloodless?
Please understand that I am not against the spirit of this icon, but it has a few facts that are, from a Jewish perspective, incorrect. I think that if you want to fight this battle, your argument needs to be watertight and beyond reproach. Also, I don't want people thinking that Jews are totally nuts.
ETA: Forgot to credit the translations www.chabad.org. I speak Hebrew, but biblical is different than modern and I'm not that great at it. My comprehension of spoken Hebrew is much higher than my translation ability.
theantijoss's userpics for good icons. 99% of them are fully and totally fabulous, but there is one in particular that I would like to comment on that I think has a few errors.l-userpic.livejournal.com/81647836/1659013.Panel seven states that polyester is an abomination. As if Jews don't wear polyester. I wish Jews didn't wear polyester! (You've never had to go to a bar mitzvah and see people in polyester leisure suits, have you?) What the passage actually says is "You shall observe My statutes: You shall not crossbreed your livestock with different species. You shall not sow your field with a mixture of seeds, and a garment which has a mixture of shaatnez shall not come upon you." This also covers panel ten, about vegetables. Here's the thing. The mixture of shaatnez is not polyester. Polyester is made of synthetic polymers (I've done my googling!). Shaatnez is an exclusively Judaic concept referring to a mixture of wool and linen. Occasionally turns up in suits or nice skirts. The vegetables thing actually refers to "kilayeen," which means mixing seed species. Very different than not being allowed to have vegetable gardens.
Panel eight speaks about bunnies as an abomination. Let's quote that: "And the hare, because it brings up its cud, but does not have a [completely] cloven hoof; it is unclean for you". Dude, this is talking about EATING bunnies. They don't fit in to the regulations of kashrut (that'd be "regarding following kosher") so we can't eat them. And I bet you think it's gross too!
Panel nine, re: hamburger: "And any man of the House of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who eats any blood, I will set My attention upon the soul who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people." Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. (Get that quote and get...a virtual hug) No eating blood, animals have to be slaughtered in a way so there is no blood in the meat. Don't you wish your meat was bloodless?
Please understand that I am not against the spirit of this icon, but it has a few facts that are, from a Jewish perspective, incorrect. I think that if you want to fight this battle, your argument needs to be watertight and beyond reproach. Also, I don't want people thinking that Jews are totally nuts.
ETA: Forgot to credit the translations www.chabad.org. I speak Hebrew, but biblical is different than modern and I'm not that great at it. My comprehension of spoken Hebrew is much higher than my translation ability.
