tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post1630608558641883402..comments2024-03-18T03:40:39.185-04:00Comments on The Curious Jew: Shakespeare Got It From RashiChanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655144434904957767noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-18238796833103293802012-09-21T01:12:02.200-04:002012-09-21T01:12:02.200-04:00The irony is Shakespeare was anti-Semitic.The irony is Shakespeare was anti-Semitic.in the vanguardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11796434751654291581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-37453262767066590832010-01-14T12:32:18.209-05:002010-01-14T12:32:18.209-05:00My perspective is so much different now... if Shak...My perspective is so much different now... if Shakespeare echoes Rashi, that makes Rashi look slightly better. Shakespeare is way out of Rashi's league... hell, he's out of the Biblical authors' league.Jewish Atheisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04616617537150446818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-28794380765497371032010-01-12T13:19:26.702-05:002010-01-12T13:19:26.702-05:00Yes, that's more or less what I was saying. M...Yes, that's more or less what I was saying. My point is that while both involve comparisons to day, I don't really think Rashi "scooped" Shakespeare on this one--there's a different angle to each of the two comparisons ("you will always exist as a nation, just as the sun etc always exist" vs. "your beauty will outlast even the seasons because I am immortalizing it").<br /><br />But again, I appreciate the motivation, and sure, there is a connection on some basic level.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-42250534242323809382010-01-12T13:05:58.908-05:002010-01-12T13:05:58.908-05:00Beautiful!
Anonymous -- Every single object of ...Beautiful! <br /><br />Anonymous -- Every single object of beauty can become less beautiful through chance/nature (either that some summer days happen to be too hot or cloudy or that summer changes to fall), but his lover is otherwise, because she will forever remain beautiful, since that beauty of her youth is immortalized. She will always be remembered as she was in that moment.<br /><br />And that can also lead to a conversation about how people will appear during the times of Mashiach -- which 'stage' of their physical appearance will be eternal.inkstainedhandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09981049559995351307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-34603162476738229992010-01-12T12:49:39.481-05:002010-01-12T12:49:39.481-05:00But Shakespeare compares his love to a summer'...But Shakespeare compares his love to a summer's day and finds the lover <i>more</i> lovely and temperate. Summer may pass, but his love's "summer" is eternal--because the lover's beauty will now live on through the poem. <br /><br />His love is greater and <i>more</i> eternal than a summer's day, in short, because of the art inspired by the lover's beauty (the poem being the truly "eternal" thing).<br /><br />But hey, I do like the approach of finding Torah in secular subjects.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-55016289183054232152010-01-12T12:47:01.629-05:002010-01-12T12:47:01.629-05:00yah I know what ya mean!
http://lightjoyholiness....yah I know what ya mean!<br /><br />http://lightjoyholiness.blogspot.com/2010/01/little-bit-of-g-d.html<br /><br />:)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06735126983266469223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12970718.post-15678919090130194952010-01-12T11:13:52.960-05:002010-01-12T11:13:52.960-05:00That's kind of cool. Thanks, Chana!That's kind of cool. Thanks, Chana!nmf #7https://www.blogger.com/profile/02930286227301917330noreply@blogger.com