Among the dangers of the corona, there is one that is not talked about enough: the tendency to adopt new hobbies, some of which are extreme and mind-boggling.
Here, in one of the previous waves, who remembers when and what his name was, my wife was exposed to the teachings of Marie Condo.
There was no work.
Life has become an ongoing isolation.
Boredom, like everyone else, kept gnawing, and the house cried out for activities at all costs.
I know those shining eyes.
Mrs.
She has, to live, a certain problem remembering unfamiliar names.
But she remembered that it was something Marie, that it involved throwing a lot of things out of the house, and that it was not Mariah Carey.
Maybe Ban Marie?
Marie Nada?
Marie Curie?
Well, this Japanese who empties drawers and clears closets in a philosophical section.
I'm already finding the link.
Hoppa!
Condo.
Marie Condo.
We live together long enough for her to know in her wisdom what madness she may or may not sweep me away.
One of the benefits of religious education from home, is that I already have one religion.
I grew up on it and it fills my life with rituals, paradoxes, serenity and headaches, more than enough.
Thank you.
More than that we do not need.
The mistress, on the other hand, grew up in Shomer Hatzair, and is very pleased that she has caught a mate who several times a day can not argue with her because he is in the middle of prayer, but into the religious gaps are sucked, what to do, all kinds of Allah will hide and his band.
I try to draw a line, but it's not always that simple.
So sourdough bread - yes.
Vipassana - no.
Pilates - OK.
Retreat in some desert - God forbid.
Detoxification - Sabba.
And what about Marie Condo now?
"Do not want - do not need!"
Announced the wife from the top of the ladder.
"I start with the books. The house collapses from too many books that no one will read anyway. And you know what's interesting?" Get out of here today. "
Blessed is he who says, and in the afternoon, five cartons were already loaded on the launch pad next to the door.
Beside them stood the new joiner in the lap of the Blessed Virgin Mary Condo, and on her face a smile of a flower as a teacher who had passed the qualifiers with honors, and here he was already left for guidance.
I then had a vibration of doubt, a sudden shadow of doubt, and asked to peek before throwing.
There was a heavy silence in the house.
In the hours that followed he lay on that toxic quiet house that married people know well.
A silence that makes you envious of people living below the runways, or next to a ballroom.
As I put all the books back on the shelves, one by one, I had time to formulate countless horrible curses and send them to the Japanese drawer philosopher.
Some of the books were ones I love in an unbearable way, and the rest, especially the rare ones, I just need for work.
Now I was on the ladder, and then she came, my partner, a little embarrassed, and said that a small mistake had really been made.
Maybe something with the Japanese translation.
And in short, it turns out that Marie Condo herself says that the method - to evacuate, to empty, to get rid of - only concerns private things.
your.
"Z 'Tomeret - mine", she did not just have to utter those words.
There was not a single book of yours in your carton, I said in my most squeaky voice.
"Hmmm, right. Coffee?"
From time to time we enjoy laughing about the event.
Then someone remarks that it happened at all before the affair of the late Chaim Velder.
• • •
Since Velder, a lot of people have been talking about getting books out of the house.
I do not know if I belong to any current in Judaism, but if so, I suppose it can be defined as Judaism that does not boycott books.
We welcome charming ideas, interesting interpretations and intriguing essays, even if they come from people who will not vote for their parties and will not send children to the educational institutions they run.
When people decide to take books out of the house, it's one thing.
Excessive load.
Shelves courses.
Marie Condo or making room for pickles.
But when it comes as a demonstrative step, the smell of war and gunpowder rises in the air, and in any case not the smell of a house.
Not my house.
Rabbi Rafi Feuerstein, a moderate man, recently announced that he was removing Rabbi Tao's writings from his home.
He does so with regret, and for two reasons: that Rabbi Tao, the undisputed leader of the ultra-Orthodox public, has chosen to justify Velder and tarnish the victims. There are books on the walls, and you will know what you will do to them in a frontal encounter with the name of Rabbi Tao on one of the shelves.
Hagai Segal (editor of Makor Rishon) last week recommended that Rabbi Rafi return the books home.
Among other things, he wrote: "Until a week ago, Rabbi Feuerstein believed that Rabbi Tao's words were true, otherwise he would not have put them on the shelf."
This argument is strange to me.
Really?
A man puts a book on the shelves in his house because he believes they are true?
And what about "interesting", "intriguing", "exciting", "heart-melting" or just "thought-provoking"?
I turned to Rabbi Feuerstein, and we talked about publishing books. In the negative sense of the word. "I have no method or mathematical logic (what book to take out on the street)," he said. "In general, this is not about agreeing on opinions, but about standing in front of people whose moral position I can not accept. I just published Velder's books. No demonstrations. But when I publish Rabbi Tao's writings, there is something demonstrative about it. A kind of shattering of sculptures in the square. Another prominent Haredi rabbi. He is the leader. He marks the line. And when the line is absolute and silences the complainants without questioning and without demanding - it is a danger to lives. When it comes to harming human life, there I do not make an account. I almost said, 'I have no God there,' but that's what I have. "
I told him that in one way I was blown away by the move he made, and that was the fact that he turned the equation around.
After all, the ultra-Orthodox are usually arrogant about moderate Judaism. They do not bring any book home in advance, except their own books, and they will decide what is kosher enough and what is worthy enough. .
"Yes, Hagai forgot to mention that members of the ultra-Orthodox sect do not bring the books outside their camp into their homes in the first place.
You will not find a book by Rabbi Sherlow with them, for example.
But I did not take out the books to make the equation.
If that was the case, I would not have included them in the first place. "
I ask Rabbi Feuerstein if there is, in his opinion, one religious Zionism, and he sadly replies that it is very close to dissolution.
At the rabbinical leadership level, the crack is deep to the point of breaking.
On the other hand, the children study in all kinds of institutions and go to all the preparatory schools, so that the public lives the rift between the trends.
Rabbi Feuerstein does not get excited, but I can not escape the thought that when you start taking things out of the house, even according to the recommendations of Marie Condo, you pretty quickly tend to forget that they were ever ours.
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