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The earth beneath them opened its mouth & swallowed them & their houses, and all the men who were with Korach and all the property. #parsha— Torah Lectures (@TorahLectures) Hunyo 30, 2016
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song@arirang.co.kr: time is ticking.
daeun@arirang.co.kr: beware of slippery roads or sidewalks and wrap up
星期五
johncAtl: Life was better before Twitter.
||I’ve been single for a really long time, but if I did have a boyfriend, he wouldn’t be getting in that door:|| ~ SomeTipsForLife
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星期四
The Rebirth of Korach
Euny Hong (@euny): This ris a recent pic; makes me realise that my sitting pose and bored resting face are unchanged since high school
Seth Berkman: Do you see any similarities between Korean culture and American Jewish culture?
Euny Hong: People often say, “Aren’t Korean mothers just like Jewish mothers?” No, they’re not, at all. I would say for the most part, the mother’s role is much more subdued than in a typical Ashkenazi family. It is okay — not stereotypically, but in practice — for the American Ashkenazi female to be opinionated and express her opinion. In Korea, there’s still kind of like this thing: They’re not supposed to be really loud in terms of values, not supposed to want to have the last word, and they get really annoyed if a woman is right.
Seth Berkman: You’ve written about Jewish issues while living in France. Did your Jewish identity change at all while there?
Euny Hong: I basically had to suspend religion for six years. It’s the only country I know of where the word “secular” appears in the first sentence of the constitution of the country. You just could not really talk about your religion or ask people what synagogue, what church do you go to. France is not very Ashkenazi, and that was the only form of Judaism I was familiar with. It was the first time I was heavily exposed to Sephardic culture. I was totally discouraged from going to their services. In France that’s pretty much the norm — women are always in the balcony. I was like, I’m not down with this; it’s not worth it unless I start my own synagogue.
Seth Berkman: How do you know Angela Buchdahl?
Euny Hong: We were in the same dorm, basically, for three years. She doesn’t seem to remember this, but one of the first conversations I ever had about converting to Judaism was with her.
Seth Berkman: You wrote about how you didn’t feel accepted in your New York synagogue at one point. Can you talk about being a Korean Jew in New York and it being something people constantly question?
Euny Hong: This is why I think Angela Buchdahl is the bravest person I know. She could easily have avoided all of this, but she threw herself into it. It’s just not easy.
During the process of conversion and for the first few years, it almost was not worth it. I was younger and more tolerant. I was not the kind of person who would just walk away because of being insulted or whatever. Generally, the more religious somebody was, the more accepting they were. I had very positive experiences in Modern Orthodox synagogues, for example. If you go to an Orthodox synagogue, even if you don’t look Jewish, they kind of assume there must be a reason that you’re there. At a Reform synagogue or Conservative synagogue, which is what I converted to, they’re just very suspicious because there are so many people who go to shul and aren’t religious; a lot of them don’t even want to be there themselves unless it’s the High Holidays. So they’re suspicious of anyone who wants to be there who doesn’t have to be there. A lot of it, frankly, is self-hatred. “If you want to be like me, there must be something seriously wrong with you” kind of thing. I think it’s really unfortunate I had to see that side of people. It’s definitely something I’m still not okay with.
Seth Berkman: There was originally a part in your book about Israel that you took out?
Euny Hong: I wouldn’t say necessarily Korea and Jews have a lot in common, but Korea and Israel have a lot in common.
Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can’t be passive. So as countries they’re really, really aggressive. They’re both going to rule the world, I think.
Euny Hong (@euny): Koreans invented the tackie selfie. Which is why Ban Ki-Moon is forced to put up with this kind of crap. #KoreanCoolpic.twitter.com/ztFxIhryUT
星期二
||Purge Sends Chilling Message to Elite||
rufiozuko: On the plane to Orlando! What trouble can we get into?
Last week, Korea's spy agency gave the first word that Kim Jong Un's Uncle may have been dismissed by his own nephew. It said he had not been seen publicly in weeks and his two closest confidants executed.
The North's media has not confirmed the executions, but today it made vividly clear that Jang is out. Images aired on TV showed him being stripped of all his titles at the party meeting led by Kim. Premier Pak Pong Ju was in tears as he denounced his longtime friend.
This time, there was no white general's uniform: Jang was dressed in civilian wear and sitting in the audience, not with the rest of the leadership. Party members watched impassively, barely flinching or raising an eyebrow, as two burly men grabbed Jang.
Media laid out a laundry list of Jang's transgressions, including instigating party dissent and squandering party funds on drugs, gambling, and women. He was branded "depraved" for living a "capitalist" lifestyle.
Koreans sometimes "disappear" for re-education and re-emerge later, and Jang has been purged before. He dropped out of sight for a few years in the mid-2000s, reportedly for going too far with fledgling economic reforms under Kim Jong Il. But today's public pillorying was unprecedented, and a startling show for a regime that typically keeps its internal politics secret.
“F*ck Nostalgia” ~ Y-Love
Dad: You are no longer a child, Reuven. It is almost possible to see the way your mind is growing and your heart, too… so, listen to what I am going to tell you: human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity, so it may be asked, ‘What value is there to a human life? There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much, if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?’ I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing, but the eye that blinks: that is something; a span of life is nothing, but the man who lives the span: he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable, though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning: meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one’s life with meaning. That I do not think you understand yet. A life filled with meaning is worthy of rest. I want to be worthy of rest, when I am no longer here. Do you understand what I am saying?
||Jackie DeDios, left, development manager of the Queens Council on the Arts, and dance artist Song Hee Lee spend time at the QCA’s open house last week. Photo courtesy Queens Council on the Arts||
Michel Gondry: I always forget names, when I have to say them
Michel Gondry: Instead of staying home or just watching TV or watching movies on the net or what ever, which is great, too, but I think, sometimes, it is good that you get your ass out of the House.
星期日
The Rising of The Shabbat Moon
JewishEncyclopedia: Recently the name ‘Terah’ has been regarded as a mutilation of ‘yeraḥ’ (moon)
"The full moon is Redemption." ~ Rabbi Hershel Reichman
Bahais or B’nei Vashti generally observe a weekly Sabbath day off from sunset Thursday to sunset Friday. B’nei Sarah generally observe their weekly Sabbath day of rest from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. B’nei Esav nominally observe a day off whenever, but occasionally Sundays with Messianic Christians ~ who are no different from Hasidim, as per a recent Slanderous headline ~ designating the end of a weekly cycle sunset Saturday; B’nei Hagar do not really observe a day off, although they set aside lunchtime Fridays for solemn Yishma’elim assembly (then they usually burn Shiite after praying, lol); A-theists [emphasis on Closeted Pseudo-Christian Anarchism] aka Korach Comrades don’t feel obligated to acknowledge much of anything: they’re sorta like Colossal Workaholic Pawns, similar to Indebted Yefetim who previously had long weekends off for no particular reason [Austerity has crippled the North with forecasts of European Fiscal Drought lasting centuries, similar to how European soil is no longer suitable for agriculture due to Chernobyl Radiation].
B’nei Keturah observance {ie eastern well} varies, in accordance with the phases of the moon(s).
Daniel Campos: 🌜🔦 #moonface
Yirmiyahu Ullman: It is important to remember that since the Hebrew months literally correspond to the moon, each month begins and ends with the new moon, and the full moon is in the middle of the month. Therefore, each sign is in harmony with one month, with its greatest influence during the full moon of that month.
The Zohar, which according to Jewish tradition is attributed to the teachings of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai of the 2nd century, correlates the 12 signs of the zodiac to the 12 Hebrew months and the 12 tribes of Israel (I:173).