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Rachel Mealey in Tokyo: Japanese people believe dolls have souls and cannot be thrown away with the rubbish.

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星期六

House of Haber

Son of former owners and resident at the house, Adam Haber visited out of the blue. Respectfully removed his shoes to survey his old bedroom up the stairs, which was Mercy's mostly, until she finally got married and moved in with her Fiancé (backed up accidentally into her Mercedes in the driveway, so that helped accelerate the process of acclimation). Currently, uninhabited.


He chatted with mom for awhile, then ventured downstairs, he and I greeting one another from across the room. I was draped in a sarong decorated with dolphins, but wasn't self-conscious, since he was that cordial and tall. He remembered Mrs. Katz across the street and the Merkins next door, acknowledging that they are our oldest neighbors in the 'hood. He went on to relay a story about the boiler room and how their cat was accidentally incinerated in there. Gross! We own a Maltese. And Filipinos are known to have had dogs for dinner, in a bygone era. The Chinese still consider cats a delicacy.


"words that are more easily seen coming from Bhet-Resh/BH-R words like הבער HeBH[E]R (a burning, kindling). But Welsh “fire”, tân," {Isaac Mozeson}

Anyway. Adam lives Somewhere on Long Island and owns a restaurant named Aldea, among other endeavors. I should have majored in Espionage or studied to become a Private Investigator. I should have also photographed our brief encounter. Nevertheless, he approves of how we've kept the property pleasant and says to expect his brother, Gordon, anytime soon. Did I mention he's tall? Emphasis on short Filipino Hobbits: "Filipinos are like Hobbits because they are a peace-loving, party people, who love to eat, drink, sing, dance, and laugh; who are secure in their visions, seeing well above the ordinary turn of events, giving hope to a cynical and litigious world, preferring, instead, the confines of The Shire." ~ Eunice Malijan, Hobbit House, Manila, Philippines

Adam: The neighborhood's mostly Filipino, right?
Eliyahu: Sort of.

星期三

A Dwarf and Hobbit Walk into a Bar Mitzvah

Jewniverse recognizes some more brilliant High Fantasy Trilogy allusions:

‎"J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), a philo-Semite and author of Lord of the Rings, based his depiction of dwarves on his knowledge of the Jewish people. Tolkien historian John Rateliff, in his book The History of the Hobbit, claims that Tolkien's fascination with Jewish textsguided the development of the race of Dwarrows (according to Tolkien, the correct plural of the word 'dwarf'). They were a people in exile--forced to leave their homeland, the Lonely Mountain, by the dragon Smaug. They were craftsmen and traders, much like the Jews in medieval Europe. The language that Tolkien developed for them, Khuzdûl, was influenced byHebrew phonology. In one of Tolkien's letters he wrote, 'I do think of the "Dwarves" like Jews: at once native and alien in their habitations, speaking the languages of the country, but with an accent due to their own private tongue.' But Tolkien wasn't only concerned with the Jews of history. The close friendship that developed in Lord of the Rings between Gimli the dwarf and Legolas the elf, Tolkien has said, was a statement against 'Gentile anti-Semitism and Jewish exclusiveness.'"

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星期四

An Ewok and Hobbit Walk into a Bar Mitzvah

Jewniverse makes an allusion between Ewoks of Endor and B'nei Menashe. Not sure how Filipinim Hobbits of the Shire fit into Biblical Epochs. Yo'el 3:10? "Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; the weak one shall say, 'I am mighty.'" "Filipinos are like Hobbits because they are a peace-loving, party people, who love to eat, drink, sing, dance, and laugh; who are secure in their visions, seeing well above the ordinary turn of events, giving hope to a cynical and litigious world, preferring, instead, the confines of The Shire." ~ Eunice Malijan 

Not sure if B'nei Menashe even appreciate comparisons with Filipinim in Israel; not sure if they'd also mind being compared to Ewoks, but speculative instigation is fun. Wouldn't be surprised to find troublemaking Filipinim in Gilead, alongside burgeoning B'nei Menashe sages.