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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:42:09 +0200
X-cc: story tell MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-8-i; reply-type=original Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Yoel, good that you put it into its context, which is to magnify the greatness of the day and the Priest's ceremonies. We can't always "clean up stories" worrying whether they have a negative side. It emphasizes the true meaning of "awe," a combination of fear and worship of something magnificent and enormous and beautiful. Dvora Shurman following stories around the world ----- Original Message ----- From: "יואל" To: Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 10:45 AM Subject: Re: compassionate practice of storytelling > Hi folks, hi Laura and Limor, > > When I asked Limor to translate the story of the bull's horn, I did not > mean to send it to the whole web but first, just propose it to Laura eyes, > and let her decide if it fits her intentions. But never mind. After all > I'm glad that other members saw it and send their opinions. > > I just want to add some words: the origin of the story is from the archive > of the I.F.A. (Israel Folktale Archive) in Haifa University, tale No. > 4396, collected by Ytshak Veksler from the mouth of the informant Shlomo > Hazan, a Jewish teller from Nimelel, Morocco. > > It was published in Dov Noy book "Jewish Folktales from Morocco" (In > Hebrew 1964). > > Limor translated "Cohen" as Shaman. I prefer "Great Priest". > > Yes, I agree With Ofra and other members that in such catastrophe sinners > and good people, rich and poor, share the same fate, but the story tells > something else: > > We, sons of Adam, share a common responsibility for our world. The deeds > of few people affect the lives of many others for bad and good. The story > is told in connection to the activity of the Great Priest in the Temple of > God in the day of grand pardon (Yom HaKipurim) where the priest asks > pardon for the sinners in the name of the whole community. > > It also says something of the fragility of this world and the necessity to > do the right thing in life of everyone of us. There is a connection > between the acts of people and the state of the world. The tale says it in > a religious manner. Scientists say it in other form (ecology), but the > connection exists. > > > > I would like to add one more thing: > > In an old book of Helen Creighton, "Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia > (Dover, 1932) she brings a version of "False Knight upon the Road" (Child > ballade No. 3) from Nova Scotia: > > . > > "What is longer than the wave? What is deeper than the see?" > > Cried the false knight to the child on the road. > > "Love is longer than the wave. Hell is deeper than the see," > > Cried the pretty little child only seven years old. Cho. > > . > > > > Yoel Perez > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 30/12/04 > ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||