Comments on: Memorial prayer http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/ Hobbily blogging Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:37:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Naomi http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2448 Naomi Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:07:39 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2448 on the Amalek comment: That's really amusing and rather contradictory/ironic too. If the popularity of attributing the deaths to the "sanctification in God's name" is supposed to give "purpose" to the Holocaust... I'm not actually sure what it is I think of that, but it seems nothing short of disgusting, and as you said earlier Michael, offensive. on the Amalek comment: That’s really amusing and rather contradictory/ironic too.

If the popularity of attributing the deaths to the “sanctification in God’s name” is supposed to give “purpose” to the Holocaust… I’m not actually sure what it is I think of that, but it seems nothing short of disgusting, and as you said earlier Michael, offensive.

]]> By: Joel http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2447 Joel Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:31:56 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2447 Reminding you of Amalek is very intentional (it's the same wording of course)... And in turn that too is ironic. Reminding you of Amalek is very intentional (it’s the same wording of course)… And in turn that too is ironic.

]]> By: Michael http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2446 Michael Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:55:41 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2446 I guess it's popular because it imposes some kind of "purpose" on the Holocaust. Blotting out names -- pointless and goes against learning from history but fun -- reminds me of one of the funniest (unintentionally) passages in the Torah: "You must blot out the memory of Amalek from heaven. Do not forget!" I guess it’s popular because it imposes some kind of “purpose” on the Holocaust.

Blotting out names — pointless and goes against learning from history but fun — reminds me of one of the funniest (unintentionally) passages in the Torah: “You must blot out the memory of Amalek from heaven. Do not forget!”

]]> By: JoelNothman.com » Memorial prayer — now in English http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2445 JoelNothman.com » Memorial prayer — now in English Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:58:24 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2445 [...] updated the chart linked from my previous post to include an English translation. Thought that might help some [...] […] updated the chart linked from my previous post to include an English translation. Thought that might help some […]

]]> By: Joel http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2444 Joel Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:20:33 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2444 And yet it's so popular. And what of blotting out names? And yet it’s so popular. And what of blotting out names?

]]> By: Michael http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2443 Michael Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:16:22 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/blog/2008/04/24/memorial-prayer/#comment-2443 Do we state that their death was “in the sanctification of God’s Name”? this one i've always found extremely offensive from any perspective Do we state that their death was “in the sanctification of God’s Name”?

this one i’ve always found extremely offensive from any perspective

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