Meshuga poetry

In May 2012, i wrote a poem for my king.

I posted it on Craiglist and bang bang!

my Hasidic companion

who holds my hands when I am crying

who gives me advices when I pull the fringes of his tzitzit

who puts his peyotes behind his ears when I am confident about my erotic dreams

who writes me such colorful emails when I wear black clothes

you will always be in the most sensitive part of my anatomy

you are my King…

Fast replies, enjoy them as i enjoyed them.

Have you seen how these little Hasidic hearts talk when you give them a little attention?

- Gm ..its very hard for us hasidic to do it even we can love somone but its still hard..

- Aww I love it

- Wow I wish someone post such a missed connection about me

- I love your post, very poetic, am I your guy?

- Wow what a hot imagination you have. Every time I kiss my tzitzot I'll be having some wild fantasies running thru my mind. Lol

J**** from bklyn here.

- Hey you guys aren't allowed to use the Internet write a letter or send a pigeon :)

- LOVE YOU !!!!!!!!

- Wow

 This is so touchy. I'm a 42 yo hasidick mail. And your ad touched me. What's the deal!?

- Hi,

Why don’t you

Give me a call

- OMG I feel you I relate so much to this. you're so sweet :-)

- Oh baby!

 - I will let you pull my fringes or even pull my peyos as you divulge to

 me your darkest fantasies and most erotic desires.

I will hold you when you cry, and laugh along with you when you do.

yes I'm chasidic (or Hasidic ..as you called it..) too

I'll be there for you all the time.

Who are you? Where are you? And where do you want to go today with me?

- hi

r u looking 4 a hasidic jew

well im 5 10  165lb.  d/d/f 

if u r please reply ill give u my phone #

- the Mosiach  hasn't  come yet...HE will  be your KING.

- Good morning,

Gorgeous post,

Gorgeous rainy day,

Your writing is gorgeous I must say, 

What made you write out of the tray? 

I am sure you are really sweet, 

But kosher we must eat,

How are you doing today?

- do you like Hasidic's. ?

- quite an interesting email the Professor

- Hi don't worry someone is looking for you hasidic guy here looking for a discreet women to take care share some stuff discreetly great personality and a great smile to  hit me back if you want to know more 

- Hi ur hassidic friend here what's doin today miss u

- Your post made the chills go through me....not because the one you're writing to is me...- just because the way you describe the tzitzit..the payos...and what it seems to me that this was....

I can relate....(some would say unfortunatly)

- Just in case you're wondering....

- Are you talking about me by any chance?

- ‪Hmm kinda cute ad 

- somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond- 

any experience,your eyes have their silence:

in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,

or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me

though i have closed myself as fingers,

you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens

(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and

my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,

as when the heart of this flower imagines

the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals

the power of your intense fragility:whose texture

compels me with the color of its countries,

rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes

and opens;only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

e.e. cummings

Still life with Shamzees the cat purring in Yiddish
Crown Heights, January 2014 ©emmarubinstein

Peyidish poetry

I found a partner in crime to play word games.
That was not easy to convince a bashful divorced Hasidic to let his mind relieve.

No more 'baby' after Hasidic, have you noticed it?
For this new secular year, i decided you have grown up as i grew up with your stories.
Let's become adult together! Ummmmmmmm! :-)

Our deal is to trade drawing class with Yiddish class with no expectations of cuddles.
Mr Cuddle is on the Venus planet with Mrs Cuddle and everything is fine in a better world: no news good news…

This divorced Hasidic man was the one who sent me the story about the beard in a previous post.
I was intrigued how was his night with his peyos.
This is what he replied:

"It was a bumpy ride at first, but then it turned out to be an amazing experience. I started off with me giving a wink and smile to my right payos. The left payos through a fit a started shaking frantically in jealous disapproval. After turning to her, caressing her, calming her down, ive managed to bring them together. We had a very nice talk. We all spoke of our feelings. We expressed our emotions and insecurities. We then lied like that together for a while, happy, satisfied, even blissful. Right before falling asleep, the payos themselves exchanged a passionate kiss. I was watching, kvellingly. And so we drift off into dreamland...."

I was freezing as hell in my work place yesterday and, i thought that maybe an impromptu and spontaneous poem about peyos could warm me up.
He was in…
So let's bang on our keyboard.
We haven't smoked the carpet (French expression which means 'be delirious' with some chemical substances).
It's a poem with 4 hands like a waltz in 4 times.
English is our second language, so be indulgent.

This is it, full of abstractive suggestions, mischievous and naughty…

A soft and curly long peyos
Was lying besides my ear
Bristling by a touch of a finger...

Retorting with hints of shiver,
Traits of moisture -
Of ambivalent origin

Stretching its curls
Lingering along
Recurving to the top

Shaven stripe
Nothing but fleshless skull
Leading to its twin

Rustlings Whistled
A languorous dance
Hips encased

Stubbornly proclaiming
Religious crust
Concealing volcano of desire

Meshugaly winding
Rubbing the cheeks
Grazing the lips

Kinkyly confusing roles:
Caressing eyes
Kissing Chin

On their way to the deep valley
Trapping between the two hills
Pipik pipik

(stay tuned for the next…), send me your thoughts.
And your poetry from the Hasidic world, i will be pleased to read it.

Our next game will be one of my favorite:
Exquisite Corpse that i already talked about on this blog.

And why not with drawings!
http://www.google.com/search?q=cadavres+exquis&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=h7zKUtDkEfazsATRyYDwDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CD4QsAQ&biw=1185&bih=706

"Salt To This Sea", "Little Town Of Bethlehem" & a beard folk story…

Two new movies for this week-end you can watch on Netflix.

-Salt to the Sea by Annemarie Jacir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yMAWXLaEyA
The synopsis ©YouTube
Annemarie Jacir's politically charged feature debut is the story of Soraya (Suheir Hammad), a Brooklyn-born woman who travels to Palestine to retrieve her grandfather's savings, frozen in a Jaffa bank account after his 1948 exile. Struggling to feel at home in the land of her ancestors — and rebuffed by the country's financial institutions — she meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they devise a plan to reclaim what is theirs — whatever the consequences may be.

It's a fiction, based on real historic events. I enjoyed it except the constant anger of the main character Soraya.
When she arrives in the house which used to belong to her grand-father, she has a nervous breakdown with the new Israeli owner.
I found it very 'violent'. I understand that she is upset but the new owner is not responsible for the past.
She needs to be back to her roots as i am. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4r3eytvNks

The same subject of a 'stolen apartment' has been treated in this movie too, Sarah's Key by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AmxnNxiNWA
The trailer doesn't show the part i was talking about above.
This movie touched me a lot, knowing what the French Nazi have done to the French Jews just to save their own skin. Yuk!

-Little Town Of Bethlehem by Jim Hanon, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XB3WN5ZCCg
The synopsis ©YouTube
An inspiring true story of three men--and Israeli Jew, a Palestinian Muslim, and a Palestinian Christian-- in a land gripped by fear, hatred, and division. Expected to be enemies, they instead strive together to end the cycle of violence.
I love what the Israeli Jew says about his country: "And, in a way, stories that my father and mother would tell me and things that I read and songs that I sang, I used to feel, as a child, that my country, Israel, is like me. Sometime I am sad, sometime I am happy, sometime I'm in danger, sometime I'm strong, sometime I'm weak. I felt that I am my country and my country is me."
How do you feel your country Israeli people? And the others? Especially Hasidim? How do you feel America? Free in America to express your religion, to have the right to live as you want?
How do i feel mine and USA? I need to create another blog to reply.
I feel a certain difference between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
I love Europe for sure but i don't feel 'my country is me.' I always felt a citizen of the world simply, traveling in different continents.

This documentary is well-documented with a historical reminder about Israel, MLK (Martin Luther King), and Gandhi.

I send to a Hasidic what i wrote many months ago about the peyos:

http://meshiksahasidicroots.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-kind-of-peyos-are-you.html

He was laughing his peyos off, and in return he sent me this story, and i am still laughing my boobs off!

Oups :-)

There has been this man who had grown a very long beard. One day someone asked him where he places his beard every night: on top of the cover or beneath it? The bearded man shrugged and laughed. He never thought about it. 

Next day the man with the beard meets the fellow who asked him the question and tells him: i couldn't sleep all night. As i got into bed, i began thinking about your question and i've asked myself: indeed, where DO i place the beard? But whatever he tried felt uncomfortable.

Will he sleep tonight or will he have an peyos obsession?

And a song to listen when you are reading this post for all the holy hip hop souls on this earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk7xsCU8y0Y

Welcome dans mon jardin d'hiver* (*in my winter garden),
Crown Heights,  January 2014, ©emmarubinstein

'Sholem Aleichem Laughing In The Darkness'

It's a documentary on streamline on Netflix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfx5tOBbe6U
For the Hasidic i don't have to introduce this Ukrainian writer.
200,000 people were at his funeral in NY.
They show old photos and movies and, i have the impression to see my family, despite my family is Lithuanian. We are all brothers and sisters. :-)
Before the pogroms, the question of the integration of the Jews in the Ukrainian society is already asked.
Sholem's father made the choice to be a 'modern' Jew. He sent his son to a secular school.
Why the Jews stay together and only speak Yiddish…? Some have tried not to rejected by the Ukrainian society.

The repetition of history against the Jews… What is the main reason to attack them all the time?
Adolph Hitler didn't hate them before meeting a man in Vienna. This man told him that most of the owners of theater, newspapers… were Jewish… They were responsible of the crisis because they were the only decision-makers. And for this man, they were not Austrian, they were Jewish before being a citizen. In Austria, the church is separated from the state since a long time.
Human beings always need a scape-goat. Hitler found the Jews. I read it in Mein Kampf. I bought it because i wanted to know who was this monster who could plan so many massacres. As all we know politicians lie, Hitler didn't lie but nobody could believe such a thing.
When i bought the book, i asked a friend of mine whom the brother has a bookstore. They are half-Jewish like me. He found an editor who publishes books about all extremisms. I didn't want to give money to a fascist editor, no way!

Someone said that the Jews had to change but Sholem Aleichem didn't claim that. Why do they have to change?

This documentary is very modern, asking the same issues that we can meet these days.
The first Jewish immigrants in America found serenity by creating their own schools, shul…

Williamsburg is like a shetl. I have the impression that everyone knows everyone.
The stores are mainly on Lee Avenue and Bedford avenue and you can meet the same people here and there. I like going to these old stores where it smells furniture polish and old books.

The adaptation of Fiddler On The Roof by Hollywood changed the end of the story. Sholem's story was not Hollywood-able enough!

Look at this peyos which look like dreadlocks. :-)

Education desire

This post is for you.
Someone who used to go to Footsteps sent me these links if you want to have College free courses.
I just checked the one from Yale so far.
And guess what? There will be one about Human Emotion. I downloaded it and will read it soon.

I am intrigued by the American Education. A Korean friend who is a doctor told me that the level is low in Mathematics. I am not surprised. China has a very high education level in science.

Anyway, if you are shy to go to Footsteps, you can do it online. It's free and discreet.

EDX.com

Udemy.com

http://oyc.yale.edu/

If you have a Master Degree because of this blog, you have the obligation to invite me in a French Kosher restaurant like Basil in Crown Heights. :-)
Roooooooh, i am kidding.

With the new secular year, it's time to move your tushas and to share your emotions with me! :-)

Shall we dance one day all together men and women?

ISRAEL. Jerusalem. 1967. Hassidum students dance and sing on their way home after
praying at the liberation of the Wailing Wall, or Western Wall.
© Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos

M'en fous, je suis juive* :-)

*it doesn't matter, i am Jewish