Wednesday, August 30, 2006

BeToch HaSadeh


Two take center stage
your wisdom, the work of G-d
experience, life

10 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

you are now proclaimed
poet and photographer
proof of "mah rabu"

August 30, 2006 at 7:36 PM  
Blogger rabbi neil fleischmann said...

i am pleased to say
that those who have passed my way
grew into haiku

August 30, 2006 at 8:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

can't imagine who
you are talking about
could it be babette?

August 30, 2006 at 9:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

that was supposed to say babette said...

August 30, 2006 at 9:55 PM  
Blogger Steg (dos iz nit der šteg) said...

i don't think babette
is the only haiku lover here
we're all addicted :-)

August 30, 2006 at 11:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

steg, sorry for being so presumptuous. you are quite right, even though you did 595 =-) babette

August 31, 2006 at 12:03 AM  
Blogger rabbi neil fleischmann said...

all who pass through to write a haiku are welcome - whether they choose 5 9 5 or 5 6 5 (as you did in your secound one - b) and bring me nachas (even though I hold tight to 5 7 5)

Numbers can matter
"G-d's a mathemetician"
a friend's dad once said.

August 31, 2006 at 12:16 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

rabbi neil fleischmann
you are so rabbinical
was that a haiku?

really, i don't get where the 565 is. i wasn't trying to write haiku.

babette

August 31, 2006 at 12:27 AM  
Blogger rabbi neil fleischmann said...

can't imagine who
you are talking about
could it be babette?

i thought the above was meant to be a haiku.

this new one is 5 7 5:

rabbi neil fleischmann
you are so rabbinical
was that a haiku?

i'm not always on the mark with it but there are other aspects of haiku besides the number: nature, being in a moment/describing what is, going from specific to universal...

i believe i've shared before that the frst line of Shema is a haiku (i'm not ediorializing that pont, just sharing the fact).

this is as good a time as any to explain the background of this post. besides it being about the picture, i was thinking about Gan Eden. Rabeinu Bachai points out that it says that the two trees, eitz hachayim and eitz hadaat, were both n the center of the field - but usually a center is one, not two. So he suggests that the two trees were connected by their roots, they were really one and the root was in the exact center.

This fits with Rabbi Yitzchak Twersk's approach that the power of the tree was not in the fruit but in the disobedience. The sin was the trusting of one's own sense over G-d's. The Eitz HaChayim was the kosher substitute for the Eitz HaDaat, the only thing it was lacking was the allure that comes with being told not to do something...

August 31, 2006 at 12:53 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh, you are right. i thought that you were talking about my comment to steg - that it was a haiku. i shouldn't have mentioned the 595 on many levels. first of all i THOUGHT haikus could only be 575 because i learned from this guy who holds tight to this number. As you see my count WAS off (not on purpose) in my haiku, so the ... i don't know where i was except to say sorry steg - i enjoyed your haiku and always enjoy reading your comments!
rnf - beautiful explanation of gan eiden - kind of reminds me of the yetzer harah and tov living as part of the same person.
WOW - shmah IS a haiku!

August 31, 2006 at 1:08 AM  

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