Comments on: Trimmed for comfort. http://www.jordanginsberg.com/blog/2007/07/15/trimmed-for-comfort/ putting the id back in yid. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:14:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: GT http://www.jordanginsberg.com/blog/2007/07/15/trimmed-for-comfort/#comment-115 GT Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:55:28 +0000 http://www.jordanginsberg.com/blog/2007/07/15/trimmed-for-comfort/#comment-115 Hey, that dip in the pond means a lot to the people who voluntarily choose to do it. Her problem isn't the ceremony of conversion, it's that people lied to her. They removed part of her inherent identity without warning. Once concept of "self" is changed in such a dramatic fashion, it's traumatizing and requires you to incorporate a new, modified sense of self. Sorry, I just get worked up when people treat it like some kind of formality for the rabbis or the community. For sincere converts, it is a symbol of joining the covenant between man and God, not man and the whims of a judgemental community. Hey, that dip in the pond means a lot to the people who voluntarily choose to do it. Her problem isn’t the ceremony of conversion, it’s that people lied to her. They removed part of her inherent identity without warning. Once concept of “self” is changed in such a dramatic fashion, it’s traumatizing and requires you to incorporate a new, modified sense of self.

Sorry, I just get worked up when people treat it like some kind of formality for the rabbis or the community. For sincere converts, it is a symbol of joining the covenant between man and God, not man and the whims of a judgemental community.

]]> By: sean http://www.jordanginsberg.com/blog/2007/07/15/trimmed-for-comfort/#comment-108 sean Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:41:56 +0000 http://www.jordanginsberg.com/blog/2007/07/15/trimmed-for-comfort/#comment-108 i love me some dirty hebrew talk. you got me all fired up, slugger. i love me some dirty hebrew talk.

you got me all fired up, slugger.

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