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Alex W ([personal profile] sdelmonte) wrote2004-05-14 01:34 pm

CantTalkGotThingsToDo

Hi all. Been really busy at work. The new Modigliani exhibition is opening on Tuesday, and there's so much to do that I actually have to work. So if you are looking for my cogent comments, they may be missing for a while. The show is eating my brain, os much so that I had a panic attachk that something I told my boss was true wasn't true after all. (It was true, though.) Wish us luck getting through what will be a long if exciting set of events.

But I gotta throw this to my LJ community. You may have heard about this ban on Indian-made wigs in religious Jewish circles as there is a possibility that hair cut off in a Hindu ritual was later recycled for wigs. I don't question the idea behind the ban - Jewish attitudes towards idolatry (which would include pantheistic Hinduism) are well-established. But I wonder if anyone is familiar with this ritual, and if anyone knows whether hair trimmed for such a holy purpose would really be turned into a wig.

I don't want to scoff at this ban - it was issued by the leading authority on Jewish law in Israel, a scholar of the highest reputation - but that little voice inside my head makes me wonder if something is amiss.

[identity profile] dotsomething.livejournal.com 2004-05-15 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
The show is eating my brain

Y'know, even though I knew you were referring to your museum show, when I read that my brain automatically thought of all the tv shows that have eaten my brain over the years. Hee.