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over the place, parents unaware where they might be at any given
time; nothing is stable, there are no assurances that our situation
can ever arrive to the sureness of a comfort that accompanies us
into our old age. I can imagine family lifestyle structure where a
mother is relaxing in front of a TV, son in front of a computer
screen, daughter thumbing her electronic device, a nd father out on
a date with a youngster.
Now that pertains to the word Paris that appears in my title,
Homeless in Paris. If one were to depict the heart of Parisian
culture, he or she would present a format in which women would
walk about in mini-skirts, make the mselves appealing to the
emotion of lust in the eyes of the viewer. Similar, so much of the
artistic creation associated with Paris, and of course, I started to
explain the intermingling of the sexes in the Moulin Rouge of days
past. Paris is here now portrayed as the epitome of naked pleasure,
life without moral co mpunction. Twenty years ago, or so, I started
to wonder how modern Paris is going to be effected by the
absorption of Muslim residents into the cultural and de mographic
milieu establishe d as a continuing willingness to give an
impression that the renaissance is still going on. Less likely tha n
women of Paris being forced to cover even their faces with veils.
Enough said, onwards to my next destination.
My joke these days has to do wit h the spiritual inclination of
humanity to await the salvation brought on by the appearance of a
Messiah. This sacrilegious criticism in a joke about how
Moshiach; were he come to redeem Yisroel, mee ts up with a
religious Zionist, whom thereafter hastened to make the glorious
announcement. Running helter-skelter, he encounters a Chassid
and forthwith shouts deliriously, "He's here !" In accordance with
Biblical interpretations similar to those preached by the Rabbis for
so long, "We need the Redee mer to come today." During this
encounter, the two parties would descend into consternation.
There would be hysterical screaming and demeaning of the
messenger; thus disprove his respectability, and thereby dis miss
the veracity of the announce ment. The Moshiach, upon hearing
this (and in order to prevent further bloodshed a mongst Israeli
Jewish People), would return to yonder from whence arrived. I
couldn't help but write that, since it was dream to which I had
awoken one morning, so metime, and somewhere along this literary
sojourn.
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