However, it was the one film that my great grandfather ever saw, and in fact, took my mother to see, because he felt it actually had religious merit.
That's neat. Were you shown it by your mother in turn, or was it just on TV one time?
My father is always coming back from synagogue and telling my mother that he met someone who knew her grandfather. It's a little weird, considering how long he's been gone. Also, the fact that we don't live in Toronto.
Seriously. I am sure there is a non-supernatural explanation, but it really sounds like timeslip or a dybbuk situation.
when I was in college, and the school swapped my grades with someone else's (effectively flunking me out of my archaeology major, despite the fact that I was actually getting fine grades, they were just being credited to someone else)
. . . How was that allowed to stand? Could you not prove from coursework and your professors that they were your own grades and the school's error?
Somewhere in my brain that has very thoroughly meshed with the animate letters from Lights (speaking of seeing the numinous in weird places) and the idea of the torah being black fire written on a background of white fire.
I was just thinking about that last night! Long before I had ever heard of the Zohar, Lights and Phyllis Gotlieb combined to give me the image of Hebrew as a living language of fire. I should write up Lights when it gets to be the right time of year. It was my first image of Alexander the Great, too.
Please feel free to pick my brain for midrash.
All right! The Ten Commandments leans very heavily on a messianic interpretation of Moses, which is one of the reasons (along with a lot of the religious language and the above-mentioned insistence that the Israelites' God cannot be the God of Israel alone) it feels like a Christianized version. I assume there's a midrashic basis for the story that Pharaoh issued his murderous edict against the firstborn because it had been foretold that from among the enslaved Israelites would arise a "Deliverer" who would threaten his reign—rather than the version I always heard in my family's Seder, that Pharaoh, without any kind of foresight except the fear that afflicts oppressors, became afraid that the slaves who outnumbered his people who would someday also overpower and overthrow them—but when it went by in the script, I wanted to know who had invited Herod the Great to the party. Is this a much more common presentation of Moses than the one I'm familiar with? Somewhere early I picked up the story that he burnt his mouth on a live coal as a child and therefore stuttered and sometimes needed Aaron to speak for him, but that wasn't from my family, either.
Well, this was a long response, and could probably go on, but dayenu!
Heh. You are very much not in danger of pulling a Cecil B. DeMille.
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That's neat. Were you shown it by your mother in turn, or was it just on TV one time?
My father is always coming back from synagogue and telling my mother that he met someone who knew her grandfather. It's a little weird, considering how long he's been gone. Also, the fact that we don't live in Toronto.
Seriously. I am sure there is a non-supernatural explanation, but it really sounds like timeslip or a dybbuk situation.
when I was in college, and the school swapped my grades with someone else's (effectively flunking me out of my archaeology major, despite the fact that I was actually getting fine grades, they were just being credited to someone else)
. . . How was that allowed to stand? Could you not prove from coursework and your professors that they were your own grades and the school's error?
Somewhere in my brain that has very thoroughly meshed with the animate letters from Lights (speaking of seeing the numinous in weird places) and the idea of the torah being black fire written on a background of white fire.
I was just thinking about that last night! Long before I had ever heard of the Zohar, Lights and Phyllis Gotlieb combined to give me the image of Hebrew as a living language of fire. I should write up Lights when it gets to be the right time of year. It was my first image of Alexander the Great, too.
Please feel free to pick my brain for midrash.
All right! The Ten Commandments leans very heavily on a messianic interpretation of Moses, which is one of the reasons (along with a lot of the religious language and the above-mentioned insistence that the Israelites' God cannot be the God of Israel alone) it feels like a Christianized version. I assume there's a midrashic basis for the story that Pharaoh issued his murderous edict against the firstborn because it had been foretold that from among the enslaved Israelites would arise a "Deliverer" who would threaten his reign—rather than the version I always heard in my family's Seder, that Pharaoh, without any kind of foresight except the fear that afflicts oppressors, became afraid that the slaves who outnumbered his people who would someday also overpower and overthrow them—but when it went by in the script, I wanted to know who had invited Herod the Great to the party. Is this a much more common presentation of Moses than the one I'm familiar with? Somewhere early I picked up the story that he burnt his mouth on a live coal as a child and therefore stuttered and sometimes needed Aaron to speak for him, but that wasn't from my family, either.
Well, this was a long response, and could probably go on, but dayenu!
Heh. You are very much not in danger of pulling a Cecil B. DeMille.