The Jewish High Holidays have begun. Yesterday, at the end of my post explaining what we could learn from watching Wile E. Coyote, I noted Rabbi Brody's post about Yosemite Sam and "spritual viglantes."
Today, Mike Sanders offers us a link to one Hasidic blogger who slipped into this mode, and had the shinai of Great Understanding hit him upside the head. Hard. B'ezrat Ha'shem, he had the grace to accept the lesson:
"...I was thus pleased to be humbled this weekend by a woman whom I had hitherto regarded as completely devoid of religious sentiment. We were discussing Rosh Hashana and I could not resist asking what she felt coming to Shul for the first of two annual visits and whether she did not feel like an impostor arriving at the party of a host who had been callously ignored all year...."
Read the rest, think about how it might apply beyond religion, and have a good New Year!
These reflections could give a whole new meaning to 'loony tunes philosophy'!
I wonder if there's likely to be one on my personal guru, Foghorn Leghorn?
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Of all the characters Yosemite Sam is my favorite. For him to be stuck with such a revelation would be heart breaking. To me in sense he’s like Charlie Brown the unsung hero always wanting what they can not have. What they will do with it when they get it is of course questionable because neither truly receives what they ultimately want. The differences between the two are one is proactive while the other is passive and patient.