Making Love Out Of Nothing At All
Here’s a rambling late night conversation with my date.
I discuss about my dreams of playing running back for Bill Walsh and the San Francisco 49ers during the 1980s.
I talk about my favorite movie of 2009 — “An Education.” It’s about a 16yo British schoolgirl who’s courted by a Jewish playboy twice her age and distracts her from her preparations for Oxford.
The Torah does not recognize a difference between a 14-year old girl and a 16-year old girl and an 18-year old girl. They are all adults.
But the Jew in this movie is rather naughty, picking up this innocent girl and flying her to Paris, oy vey!
I get into an argument about whether or not Nietzsche hated Jews.
I bet my beard that Nietzsche was more philo-Semitic than anti-Semitic. If I win, she has to spend the Sabbath with me, going to shul three times (Friday night, Shabbos morning, Shabbos afternoon).
Here’s a blog post on Nietszsche and the Jews:
Nietzsche wrote rather plainly of his opinions on the Jews—plain enough for even those of limited education to understand. His thoughts amount to a great lesson about national politics—that no one group should be damned for the ills of society. Christian Europe had done it for centuries to the Jews, but Nietzsche recognized these people were not plague rats scurrying through society. They were, and still are, regular hard-working people, trying to make a living like everyone else. Going further, Nietzsche celebrates the mindset the Jews have of themselves. He recognized their uplifting value system, their mentality of being “the chosen,” and sees in it something the Jewish people will use to hoist their achievements—their overcomings. I am actually curious if his observations of the Jews contributed to the development of the “will to power.”
I want my beard to grow down to the ground so I can clean the rabbi’s shtender with it and sweep out the shul and clean the Aron HaKodesh (Holy Ark).