Dog or G-d

I had my first argument with my Hasidic king. What a celebration for his come back in my inbox! :-)
He doesn't like that i say Dog instead of G-d.
I use this term because i don't want to make the H babies upset when i talk about the one they worship a lot. I don't consider G-d as a dog, it's just a scrabble game or whatever you can call that.
I respect the beliefs of each person.
And with my H king, we always end it with a sense of humor.
'Do you think it would me nice of me to call the pope dog to a Christian? Even though I may think it? 

I hope I'm not giving you a hard time :-)))))'

So do you think it? Do you like the pope? :-)

I don't know them personally but i have a big issue with the Vatican and the 2 last popes.

That's why i replied to him: 'For the pope, call him poop! Oups! :-)))'

My dear King, have you been in Rome, smelling the Christianity and Catholicism at each corner of street? I didn't feel well on my way to the Vatican. So many virgin priests and nuns were surrounding me. I dislike the scent of the church incense!

When will they elect an open-minded pope who allows them to have sex? We are at the 21st century. How many fetus have been found out in the basement of the convents? Mischievous

The last pope resigned after all the scandals and i am not going to talk about his childhood in the Nazi Youth… He was German, and John-Paul II was Polish. Someone better?

My dear King, do you think that the Dog's pope is not the one you are worshiping? :-)

Let me know your thoughts in your next emails.

Yesterday i met a photographer who took photos for a project i am working on lately.

I had a better look at his website. And oh my DOG! He took awesome photos of Hasidim.

Have a look!

http://stefanogiovannini.com/religious-jews

©I don't know…

Songs about Dog

Many songs talk about Dog. In Yiddish songs, the majority of them worship Dog.
I chose some secular ones i like for different reasons.

-James Sit Down, 1989
"I hope that God exist, I hope I pray"
I hope without praying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew7Zkkucos8

-Beach Boys God only knows, 1966
"God only knows what I'd be without you"
Dog knows all your secrets, Dog is your confidant…
How do you know that Dog forgives all your sins?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOMyS78o5YI

- Sugar Cubes, Deus, 1988
"Deus does not exist.
But if he does, he lives in the sky above me,
In the fattest largest cloud up there.
He is whiter than white and cleaner than clean.
He wants to touch me."
Björk sang it, and later Einer, the other singer sang "He wasn't white and fluffy,
He just had side burns, …"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq2dWTBVZD4

- The Pogues, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, 1988
"If I should fall…
Where no doctor can relieve me…"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBLqp-s__o

Sex Pistols, God Save The Queen, 1977 (The first year of the Punk movement in England)
"Oh God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord God have mercy
All crimes are paid"
Sensitive ears that song is not for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z2M_hpoPwk

-Tricky, Dear God, 1996
A song which describes more what i feel.
"Hope you got the message, and
I pray you can make it better down here
I don't mind a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image
See them starving on their feet…"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZzvugyaR3Y

If you want to listen to them for Shabbos, i can whisper them in your ears…
And travel to your place, but shhhh…

My king is back…

You know how are the H babies: they come, they go, they disappear, they come back…
And yesterday, the first H baby i had so long conversations about anything and everything was back in the picture after one year without leaving a note, an address, a photo, a real name… :-)
I never met him and will probably never meet him, but it doesn't matter, i respect his fear to meet me.
Why i was sad not to have news from him?
He was the first one i talked with.
Then, he comes from an open-minded family, he is curious about other cultures…
He likes the Hasidic way of life and to have outsiders friends.
Sometimes we argue as human beings because of my English and some misunderstandings but we never fought.
He was my consultant, i could ask him many questions when i was puzzled by the Hasidic behavior…
We talk about intimacy too, and that was great!
He always asked me why i came back to him: because i am a faithful friend. I have friends since i was born because they are a part of my family story too. I never forgot them even if i haven't been in touch with some of them during 20 years. Nothing had changed with them when we re talked after all these years. Maybe it's my European background where we make friends for life and death. I am not into shallow friendship. Here the word 'friend' is used at all the sauces.
Why did he disappear? That's our secret, i don't share this information with you. That's easy to guess! :-)

So my dear king, i never forgot you and will never forget you even if you make the choice to disappear once again.
I tried to imagine how you look like. I drew your face this morning.
And if you have the guts to come and see me, i will be very happy.
And if you want to invite me in your place to share a Shabbos meal, i am ready to dress very modestly.
I imagine you with long peyos because you are mischievous. :-)
You mean a lot to me, you know that!
xoxo

Dog(s)

'If only there was one Dog…'. How many times i heard this sentence and it just clicked in my mind the other day.
Sometimes i am so religiously naive and ignorant.
What does it mean 'one Dog'? Really, what is this mess?
Dog has the same name but that's not the same! And Dog did the same thing, namely create the world but that's not the same guy!
The last person who told me that was talking about what we call religious wars.
I never actually believed in religious wars, only in territories wars. That's always better in the plate of the neighbors.
I don't deny fanaticism, especially religious fanaticism but the intentions of the bosses are not religious: power, and money first. They absolutely don't care about the guy who will make a bomb explode somewhere.
What the Christian, Catholic… 's Dog made, make, will make better than the Jewish Dog?
I need help, so guys send me your thoughts. I will post something on CL soon to see what i can read. I am very intrigued.
When i was in Jerusalem, i heard that according to some religious communities, Jesus's body is not in the Holy Sepulchre where his body has been reincarnated. And later, i saw a documentary on Tv, showing where was Jesus's body: another place .
I have been in the Holy Sepulchre, and when i have seen people lying on the Jesus's tomb i ran away fast. I was scared of the devotion and this religious trance that i can't explain to myself.
And because nobody knows what will happen after we die, i always wondered if all these prayers are useful for the after-life.
In everyday life, i don't ask all these questions. If i have to do something, i do it spontaneously. If i want to go to the beach in the middle of the night, i am not going to ask Dog if i can make it, if it's good or not to do it, i will jump in the water.

Is Dog like a psychologist for some of you?
If one day, you eat pork, how will you behave? Waiting Dog's judgment to see if you will die?
Do you also know the punishment?
I asked the rabbi who wrote the Torah For Dummies why the Jews can't eat pork, mussels… He said that for many laws there are not rational explanations: itslikethat.com.
I think when Moses wrote the Torah, he forgot a part of his job: footnotes.
I can understand some Jewish laws for food which are a question of hygiene. But some are a total mystery.

In the main religions, Dog has beard and mustache (so man, you are mine, i am into hirsute faces). Give me a call and i will see what i can do with it. Don't trim it. I like it vintage. :-)
In Islam, we don't know because we are not allow to draw the prophet.
Btw, in my country, a cartoonist drew the prophet and has been sued. In my souvenir, the prophet has a hirsute face too. That was a big scandal that ended well because my dear ex French President that i hated a lot did everything to save the 68 editor (May 68, Red May, you got it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_events_in_France) where the drawing has been published, who changed sides by interest.
The Prophet Muhammad is the Moses for the Jews.

That's totally fascinating to see these guys writing such a big book, quite interesting and see the best-sellers they still are. Not only best-sellers but a reference of a way of life for billions of people.
Guys come back, we organize events in all the Barnes & Nobles, i will be on the top list of the guests.

'If only there was one Dog…'. What will it change?
That reminds me a friend of my mother. She was Catholic and a deep believer. She never coped the death of his husband who was his husband, child, lover, affair… and wished everyday she could die to be with him. Love is blind. My mother and her argue all the time about religion and she used to say: 'Dog is good, the human being are bad.' The wars were not a decision of Dog, only human beings. I agree.
Why did Dog never try to stop all these massacres, the Shoah…? What was the aim of Dog to create human beings with a brain? To see them to kill each other? Yes i need answers…

ISRAEL ,Jerusalem 1990 . © Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos

ISRAEL. Beersheba. 1967. Bedouin man and woman. © Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos

My last Yiddish magnet creation

I am learning and teaching Yiddish to my Jewish penguin.

Frozen peyos in Jerusalem

Some photos found online that i like.
My Israeli friends from my childhood who like coming in Paris to enjoy the gray sky must be happy… :-)
Such a devotion to go to the Western Wall that we call in French the Wall of Lamentations.
I put a piece of paper when i was there, i din't remember my wish, but i think it was something about love. :-)

Learning Yiddish with magnets

Who is the responsible person who wrote all these sentences.
I am not working for the MTA: 'If you see something, say nothing!'.