{"id":32395,"date":"2011-05-03T19:43:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T03:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32395"},"modified":"2011-05-03T20:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T04:03:43","slug":"when-god-called-upon-the-jews-to-be-a-holy-people-did-he-mean-tango-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32395","title":{"rendered":"When God Called Upon The Jews To Be A Holy People, Did He Mean Tango Classes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just rereading Abraham Joshua Heschel’s book<\/a> The Prophets<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\nWhile ancient societies most highly valued wisdom, wealth, and power, to the prophets \u201csuch infatuation was ludicrous and idolatrous.\u201d For them, kindness, justice, and righteousness were the highest ideals and actions. For the prophets, justice was the supreme manifestation of God. This was not simply because it was right for the individual, both the dispenser and the recipient, but because of the link between justice and world history: justice will decide social survival and success. \u201cFor accomplishing His grand design, God needs the help of man.\u201d <\/p>\n

Justice, then, is not important as an abstraction or value but for practical effects on people. Thus the prophets were preoccupied not so much with the ideal of justice but with the practical applications of injustice and oppression. Most of their activity was to interfere in situations which, while not concerning them personally, they regarded as instances of injustice. \u201cThe prophet is a person who is not tolerant of wrongs done to others, who resents other people’s injuries.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I meditated upon kindness, justice, and righteousness, I checked my email, a frequent source of inspiration.<\/p>\n

There was a message from the American Jewish University explicating upon these themes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
dancing with…you! <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n<\/td>\nHustle with Tina Mayer<\/b>
\nThe Hustle is the partner version of disco dancing. This fun, energetic dance, is a fusion of swing and disco, a return to partner dancing, a modified Lindy hop and jitterbug.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
dancing with…you!<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n<\/td>\nTango with Daniel Ponickly <\/b>
\nCome on, it\u2019s the Tango, for cryin\u2019 out loud! It\u2019s destroyed marriages and torn apart families. Let alone the heart-aches, failed affairs, and early morning walks home along the Seine.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
dancingwith…you!<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n<\/td>\nCha Cha with Mimi Karsh<\/b>
\nThe Cha-cha is a fun and playful dance! Although originating in Cuba, this dance is popular in all music genres including funk, hip-hop, and latin.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
dancingwith…you!<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n<\/td>\nSwing with Brittany Alexis Palmer<\/b>
\nThis class will be loads of high energy fun and a great work out. We will begin with East Coast Swing commonly known as the Jitterbug and will progress into Charleston and finally the ever-popular dance found in all the LA Swing Clubs, the Lindy Hop.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
dancing with…you!<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n<\/td>\nFoxtrot with Tina Mayer<\/b>
\nThe Foxtrot has successfully survived since the mid 1910\u2019s. Danced to Big Band music it is smooth, rhythmical, jazzy and fun! <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

You know this will be good because this is the same crowd that brought us “Dancing With The Rabbis.”<\/p>\n

What Jewish institutions desperately need are more dancing classes with sexy instructors in styles of movement that lead to “heart-aches, failed affairs, and early morning walks home along the Seine.”<\/p>\n

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nOn April 3, under the auspices of the American Jewish University, in its Gindi Auditorium, five Los Angeles rabbis competed with one another in an evening titled \u201cDancing With the Rabbis.\u201d As reported in this newspaper, the sellout crowd loved the evening.<\/p>\n

May I respectfully suggest \u2014 and I do mean respectfully, as I know that good intentions prompted the evening \u2014 that this be the \u201conce in a lifetime\u201d event that some who attended called it. It should not be repeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just rereading Abraham Joshua Heschel’s book The Prophets: While ancient societies most highly valued wisdom, wealth, and power, to the prophets \u201csuch infatuation was ludicrous and idolatrous.\u201d For them, kindness, justice, and righteousness were the highest ideals and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,4],"tags":[784,26265,26262,26264,26261,26263],"class_list":["post-32395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aju","category-dennis-prager","tag-abraham-joshua-heschel","tag-jitterbug-dancing","tag-lindy-hop","tag-social-survival","tag-supreme-manifestation","tag-tango-classes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32401,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32395\/revisions\/32401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}