{"id":2696,"date":"2011-03-30T13:58:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.92.17.21\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2011-03-30T14:06:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T21:06:24","slug":"meat-messiah-%e2%80%94-kaddish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"the meat and the messiah \u2014 a kaddish"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u2014 sacrifice\/d \u2014 sometimes with a prayer <\/p>\n

\u2014 defined by others (i.e. often passive recipients of the category)<\/p>\n

\u2014 unnatural arc, so who would make this stuff up?<\/p>\n

\u2014 untimely demise \u2014 averting being wrinkled, old, or unlovely<\/p>\n

\u2014 they die so that we may live, especially the meat<\/p>\n

\u2014 frequently male, for some ungodly reason \u2014 but that’s okay with me.<\/p>\n

\u2014 post-mortem rave reviews (in both senses of the word)<\/p>\n

\u2014 etc. etc. etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This is what I get for reading Gershom Scholem’s Sabbatei Sevi: The Mystical Messiah<\/em> at the same time as reading edible brooklyn: the good meat issue<\/em>. The parallels have been uncanny.<\/p>\n

The human need to torture others in order to be sated cannot be underestimated. <\/p>\n
On another note, tangentially related, I have not had a single good (vegetarian) meal in New York yet this trip so far, except for the home-made meals my precious daughter improvised here on the ‘urban pioneer’ edge of Brooklyn. And we’ve gone to some old standards and promising nifty places. Even New Orleans chefs have been way more creative than these in the accommodate-the-goddamned-vegetarian department.<\/div>\n
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Rant, rant. And not a rave in sight.<\/p>\n

I find it curious that I became a vegetarian (again) on October 25th, 2010 on the first yahrtzeit of the tzaddik’s death. \u00a0And I’ve been thinking what the connection might be. Haven’t come up with anything that sounds more profound than trite, yet. \u00a0 But there it is. Sometimes, we’ve just had enough of death and don’t want to be party to it more than we can bear.<\/p>\n

Sure, why not that?<\/p>\n

Perhaps my association with vegetarians is that they do less harm than others. \u00a0But I also think they’re missing something really really tasty. \u00a0But they’ve decided to give it up.<\/p>\n

Just say no, right? \u00a0We’ll see if righteousness and abstinence are really what they’re cracked up to be. \u00a0But as for me, I’ve tossed edible brooklyn meat issue<\/em> across the room in favor of Sabbatai Sevi<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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