tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post7413058742520093639..comments2023-09-11T17:58:13.764-04:00Comments on The Rebbetzin's Husband: Bein Kodesh l'Chol - Between Sacred and Secular (Derashah, Rosh HaShanah 5780)The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-51512994035970601982019-09-26T15:54:45.054-04:002019-09-26T15:54:45.054-04:00I think the song is very much a product of its tim...I think the song is very much a product of its time. It wasn't all that long ago when it would be more usual to think of this kind of struggle as a weakness.<br /><br />It's only with Post-Modernism that we're willing to confront the idea that there are two ideals:<br /><br />The abstract ideal I am trying for, to be the perfect eved Hashem, to be a subject who cooperates with, rather than resists, the King's plan.<br /><br />The reality, that the ideal human isn't capable of the first paragraph. That the real ideal is to be striving for the ideal ideal, and not actually there.<br /><br />This song is a celebration of the latter, of admitting one is struggling with getting there, with even knowing where "there" is.<br /><br />As I said, I don't think anyone would have thought of writing a song like this just 2 decades ago.<br /><br />On a different note, when I <a href="http://www.aishdas.org/10YemeiTeshuvah.pdf#page=15" rel="nofollow">dealt with Coronating G-d</a>, I focused on pesuqim like "ki Lashem haMlukhah umosheil bagoyim". A melekh rules by public acclamation; a moshel rules despite the people. Even if the moshel has their best interests at heart. And that the choice is ours whether we experience Hashem's rule as that of a Melekh, or that of a Mosheil.<br /><br />micha bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612144735431285113noreply@blogger.com