Yochanan Goodall\u2019s research into non-human primate linguistic capacities results in an unexpected plaintiff (gorilla or whatnot) for the courtroom of Rabbi Moses. The genius judge had considered himself to be a lone wolf, but in the eyes of a being who becomes a synecdoche of all that he opposes, he finds for the first time a mirror and sympathy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Torah does not deal in extraordinary cases,\u201d translates Hillel<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is nothing unambiguous, A woman shall not lie with a beast.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou too were once strangers in Egypt…<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow dare you! Egypt is slavery, colonization, death camps!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEgypt is discovering that the Other understands you but hates you anyway,\u201d Hillel\u2019s<\/em> voice was always low, but it was rarely tinged with unabashed melancholy as was now obvious to all.<\/p>\n This story exposes the taboo liminal space of postmodernism, where communication reveals itself to be mimicry, and acceptance devolves into implicit-forced conversion. End of story could suggest itself as a Midrash<\/em> upon the Midrash<\/em> of Moshe\u2019s<\/em> royal wanderings in Cush<\/em> et al. (here, and why the people loved Aaron<\/em> more than Moshe<\/em>, and why he could not cross the Jordan with his people and why this is a tragic but beautiful ending).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yochanan Goodall\u2019s research into non-human primate linguistic capacities results in an unexpected plaintiff (gorilla or whatnot) for the courtroom of Rabbi Moses. The genius judge had considered himself to be a lone wolf, but in the eyes of a being who becomes a synecdoche of all that he opposes, he finds for the first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,103,154,167],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-essay","category-google-drive","category-judaism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2816,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/11\/23\/saturday-november-23-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":993,"position":0},"title":"Saturday November 23, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"November 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's start by recording what is\/was done today (by cross-referencing the \"To-do\" items listed in the \"meta\" notebook via Evernote. 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