Omer day ten.
Here is spring. Where are the robins? What am I going to do this summer? So many options. I want to earn some money, but it's not my highest priority right now. I want to go camping and canoing. A road trip to the West Coast sounds pretty good. Maybe I'll go to Oklahoma. I want to learn some new skills. I want stop being selfish. I want to grow up.
Riddle: What wears tzitziyot with techelet but doesn't wear a kippah?
3 Comments:
"I want stop being selfish. I want to grow up."
Hmmm...you sure that you want to do that? I say the same things myself, but I'm not too sure how to distinguish between those two things being what I want, or what people have made me feel I should be. Oh social conventions...how they make us mad.
Helena - you win first prize!
Here's an anecdote. I remember walking down Yafo Road in Jerusalem with Yaakov Johnson one day. This guy honked at us and tried to get our attention, then he tapped his head. Noticing our tzitziyot and Yaakov's bare head, he assumed that he'd forgotten his kippah at home or something. We acted very thankful, and kept on walking...
Revolt - I totally know what you mean. I don't want be a part of the world system. The society we live in is a powerful force, and sometimes social conventions appear to be virtues that we should aspire toward. I do want to change, I do want to grow up, and when I'm fully grown I want to be a son of God. May our Father in Heaven discipline and teach us, eh.
Satisfied? If you asking if I am convinced beyond a doubt that I wear tzitziyot with techelet, then yes, I am convinced. If you are asking if wearing tzitziyot with techelet but no kippah gratifies or fulfills some sort of desire or need that I have, then no, it does not.
Really, the riddle was a commentary on the strange subculture that my brethren and I represent. It stemmed from a conversation with an Israeli acquaintance of ours. He was talking about how in Israel the variety of kippah that a Jew wears identifies his religious and political convictions. We don't even wear kippot, but we do wear tzitziyot, so we're really strange Jews. However, that's not our true identity. The attire that I do or don't wear isn't who I am.
Shalom, eh.
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