tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post436438739681680661..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Eliezer's HandshakeYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-48386726632220514922011-05-09T02:37:10.736+03:002011-05-09T02:37:10.736+03:00Taking the substance of another into oneself is th...Taking the substance of another into oneself is the height of mentschlikhkeyt.<br /><br />A dank.<br /><br />Rob in MadisonRob in Madisonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-87418052409501031192011-05-09T01:34:32.214+03:002011-05-09T01:34:32.214+03:00In another comment thread, YBD asked about Amos Oz...In another comment thread, YBD asked about Amos Oz, whose body of work I've been reading. For what it's worth, Amos' vision of Jerusalem - the rusty, groaning window shutters, freshly washed bedspreads fluttering over balconies, the scorching desert wind melting the golden city into a uniform haze of heat and stone, and the mountains, each evening battling the fires of the setting sun, making each glimmering rooftop and windowpane a battlefield, always victorious, swallowing the city in their eternal darkness - is now how I see Jerusalem, frozen in the author's prose.<br /><br />And what Yaacov just wrote... this, too, is how I now see Jerusalem, through the characters that Oz has built - Eastern European immigrants in Kerem Avraham and Tel Arza (I can almost invent my own by now) with modest, respectable professions and displaced souls seeped in barely suppressed anguish and tragedy, in longing, and faith, rising each day as if beside themselves, but always rising.<br /><br />For what it's worth, to reduce a city and it's people to a weathered cliche - as I'm sure his portrayal of Jerusalem has long since been in the minds of its residents - like a beloved, worn glove, this is what Amos Oz has done.<br /><br />I'm beginning to think it was not such a good idea to read all his books straight through, as I'm beginning to anticipate his twists and turns more and more.<br /><br />Next time I'm in Jerusalem I'll definitely need to do some off the beaten path site-seeing, though I'm afraid to be disappointed. Something tells me Tel Arza no longer hugs the desert, and those rusted window shutters...Avigdorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008730229882004376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-89112147181543880742011-05-08T23:18:39.287+03:002011-05-08T23:18:39.287+03:00Thank you Yaakov for this and have a good and succ...Thank you Yaakov for this and have a good and successful trip to GermanyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-54368994407881915782011-05-08T22:42:59.953+03:002011-05-08T22:42:59.953+03:00Just agreeing with Nycerbarb. It's good to see...Just agreeing with Nycerbarb. It's good to see things being put in perspective every now an again.Markusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-90660417169931639602011-05-08T22:18:36.662+03:002011-05-08T22:18:36.662+03:00Thank you for sharing this. These are the type of ...Thank you for sharing this. These are the type of tellings that keep everything real, alive and personal.<br /><br />NycerbarbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com