we watched dear rosenkavelier

I went to a great zoom wedding Saturday

Have a blessed day - don weiss

I LOVE Monsoon Wedding!!!

oops. we went to the MET and watched der Rosenkavelier (sp)

Kabir Cohen has been Paul's CBST Limmud Little Buddy for about 5-6 years.

yes! loved that movie

I distributed Monsoon Wedding

I watched two fascinating documentaries on a contemporary illustrated manuscript of the Book of Ruth that had been at the Morgan Library. Highly recommended!

https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/book-of-ruth

G’morning everyone

Monsoon Wedding is one of every caterer’s favorite films. If you think that American bnai mitzvahs and weddings can be over the top and fraught with family issues, this movie evoke the same memories. Brilliant and fun. Must meet the family.

stevens ipad os steven raphael

click on the upper right corner of your tile to rename your tile

Was Kabir’s bar mitzvah ceremony recorded? I would enjoy hearing his drash.

I distributed and marketed monsoon wedding

please mute your mike

Rabbi, you’re breaking up

I think the phone numbers are people who are calling into the Zoom. They can only listen and talk. I don’t think they can chat or change their Zoom names.

Who is going anywhere, anyway?

exactly!

yes..you are correct. sorry about that.

the host should be able to rename people

How many Wisdom Psalms are there?

Zamir is a nightingale.

Stever's Ipad is not muted. Can the host mute him?

King David, running from his son Absalom

If this Psalm was indeed written as Melech David fled from troops of his usurping son Absalom, this is his KING LEAR moment. It seems, however, that it isn’t as specific as in a drama.

This is like many LGBTQ people who had to separate from their families.

what does the first mem add to the root?

At some point, could we get into some of the theories about the word "selah"?

Ah, Selah! How much time do we have??

Song

Zanir means a nightingale

Zamir

Dudu

Dudu

In some Arabic-speaking Jewish communities, particularly some from North Africa, they do pronounce the vav as a "w".

Da/wood…Da’uid…Daud…Dawid

The worl for valley in Hebrew is Vadi, but in Arabic it's Wadi

word

descendent of Ruth

Isn’t Song of Songs “authored” by Solomon?

Shir HaShirim l’Shlomo

The Hebrew girl’s name Osnat (o-snot) also does not sound pleasant to the English ear.

avshalom - father of peace?

Saul was upset that David was “romantically involved” with his son Jonathan.

Absalom Absalom

The child is father of the man.

Faulker novel: Absolom, Absolom

True

I have young relatives named Rachel

Names that can be pronounced easily in ENglish

yes Faulkner

Everybody thought of Faulkner's novel :)

Sorry for the misspelling, Steve’s correct. Faulner’s novel is Absalom Ablsalom.

Renee who is Israeli but not born in Israel calls you like you said as if it were Hebrew.

Faulkners novels are terribly difficult for non-native speakjers to read, but I struggled herpoically with a few of them at university when I had access to the library there.

Faulknerr was a great champion of African Americans

If only I could hole up in my apartment for several weeks and read Faulkner. Oh, wait … another lock-down project I won’t ever do.

His short stories are easier to read and appreciate, especially when first reading him.

Darina, it’s challenging even for native speakers.

Yael, what are some examples of those names… popular these days in Israel?

Curious about gender-neutral names too

My good friend in Israel has two kids. The girl is Roni and the boy is Guy. Many names are given so they can be pronounced in English.

Wasn’t Absalom strangled accidentally by his beautiful long hair? Or is that another story?

He gets entangles in a tree by his hair as he flees David

Lear/Regan/Goneril…House of Atreus/Oresteia…Oedipus Tyrannus …pick a royal family domestic tragedy.

Where was that David quote from, after Absolom is killed? “Oh Absolom my son …"

hair and power

It's in Samuel.

2 Samuel 14:30

Thanks!

Sons killing fathers is part of many cultures path to manhood

as a myth

That’s the mythic dimension of Freud’s Oedipus complex theory.

Samuel B, chapter 18,

David fled from Saul

and Saul ran from David

verse 9

Often original folk tales have a notable lack of coherence. It's only through rewrites that the story has a clear beginning, middle and end.

what is the punctuation for second mem in that first word?

Cholam

Isn't there something called pseudopygraphy where something is attributed to a writer who did not actually write it

Who added the punctuation to the psalms? That would add/change meanings to the psalms i am guessing.

Absalom Absalom conr

contains the longest sentence in any piece of American literature.

and yet so beautiful and evocative they continue to inspire literature and song today

Cliffhanger!

I have Chaucer's Canterbury Tales almost in the original, with only slightly modernized spelling to distinguish betwen U and V and get rid of those S letters that look like F letters. It has a glossary and it is still terribly difficult to read; I only managed a couple of tales before I gave up in frustration because I studied historical libnguistics at university. English just changed too much from Chaucer's time to even Shakespeare's time.

thank you rabbi

Thank you. Wonderful morning!

thank you rabbi

Thank you!!

thank you harold thank you sacha

Wonderful class! I love how we spend 45 minutes and not finish even one verse!

Thank you!

Thank you rabbi, Julia, Sacha, and Harold!

Darina - I listened to a few of the Canterbury Tales, at first it was fascinating, but so difficult - and I finally gave up

Thank you, rabbi and all commentators.

Thanks Julia, for suggesting the nature imagery.

Thank you

lovely Julia!

My kids light candels in the service.

Wonderful class, thank you Rabbi and everyone!

LOL Yael this is what happens when you have linguistics and culture studies and all in a single class

Thank You Rabbi, Harold and Julia

Hi Judy

Betsy welcome tp CBST

Thanks!! Loving studying with all of you

I thought of that also.... they are Christian

from Muriel Thank you for your emphasis on Hebrew.

I am reading this wonderful book Underland about archaeology Are there efforts to go back earlier than discovery of dead sea scrolls?