Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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One Saturday in a Messianic Synagogue
for the series: "You never stop learning"
This I believe davvero e profondamente. Per questo amo scoprire angoli misteriosi , assaggiare esotiche esperienze, intrufolarmi in sapori di altri tempo, spazio e cultura.
Sabato io ho celebrato lo 'shabbat' per la prima volta. Io non sono ebrea ma ho grande rispetto e forse anche una personale simpatia, per la religione ebraica. Per questo ho accettato di buon grado l'invito di un amico a partecipare a uno 'shabbat' a Dallas.
Il gruppo religioso in questione, è una sottocorrente ebraica che riconosce in Gesu' il Messia. Per questo sono spesso oggetto di cofusione: se riconoscono che il messia è già venuto ed è Gesù allora sono cristiani? E invece no, sono ebrei perché loro si dichiarano tali e all Jewish ritual follows function; even the language. It is not easy! They have all the liturgical elements of Judaism: the menorah, candelabrum 'seven-branched'. Lights on Friday night to celebrate the Sabbath, a holy day for the Jewish people. The Mezzucah, parchment that contains songs of prayer to be recited every day in the morning and evening). The men wore
Kippah and Talledo, shawl white with dark stripes on the sides.
The ritual also provides for the traditional tour of the Torah, written on leather, and custodina ark, so that all the possan kiss.
What I discovered, after 3 hours, is another world of believers that is enclosed in a huge and beautiful buildings every week to share a faith. Every church or the like, which I visited, it was huge and fully functional, efficient organization with a group. Which we is not even in Parliament. Each has its role, its function, its own task and do it with precision and devotion. A device that refers to me at a conference rather than a 'mass'. But this is not the only detectable dissimilarity. The thing that strikes me most, of the pseudo Catholic, is the great joy which is the dominant emotion for all the rituals that I have seen celebrating. (Of course, the Catholic and not cheerful!). I like this size but joyful at the same time gives me the impression of diminishing the substance of religion. If that takes us to church and sing and dance maybe we could do it without resorting to the gods? I do not know, I can not understand. Maybe my problem is a cultural gap in this case, I can not fill. 'S why I could not remain silent when our' guest 'has trumpeted a tirade against the pig' unclean animal, etc. ... ' I spat and honest: "I like the pig ..". You have created a bit of frost around but now I'm used to. It does not bother me. How can I deny the goodness of Tuscan ham or salami from Tuscany??
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