SATIRE: Groundbreaking Research: Children Were Born with a Jewish Soul in a Secular Body...

 26 Av 5783 | כו מנחם אב ה'תשפ"ג

*WARNING: This article features parts of, and links to, a satirical article originally written in Hebrew, with my commentary in English.* 

The second picture has a woman in it, standing near men who are praying. Neither side is looking at the other.

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I have a serious question here. Maybe you, or someone you know, think it is all right for human beings to have a female soul in a male body, or the opposite, a male soul in a female body. Would you also accept the following:

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Groundbreaking Research: Children were born with a Jewish soul in a secular body (key parts translated by David Israel, The Jewish Express)

Former President Reuven Rivlin attended a Jewish Pride event with children who transitioned from their secular to religious bodies — October 13, 2016. In this context it's *SATIRE* — but who knows? From David Israel's article.

 English Snippet:

 Until recently, children born to secular parents were determined from birth to have a secular identity, but new research shows that sometimes the Jewish identity in a person’s soul is different from the one determined from birth according to the identity of an atheist or non-Jewish mother.

The research concludes that in a case where a person is born in a secular body with a soul that does not fit his body, he should be encouraged to live as a member of the religious group that matches his identity or go through a process of adjustment to his Jewish identity, because these children suffer twice: not only were they born to non-religious or non-Jewish families who cannot understand them or satisfy their most basic Jewish needs, they are also persecuted due to the widespread hatred toward Judaism.

The purpose of this document is to ensure that every child born with Jewish identity in Israel and throughout the world will have the freedom to live his life according to his own path.

 The rest of the article...

 

Original Hebrew version by Gali Bat Horin גלי בת חורין (pseudonym of Dalit Laub-Sutter):

מחקר פורץ דרך: ילדים נולדו עם נפש יהודית בגוף חילוני

(Hebrew snippet) קטע עברית

עד לא מזמן ילדים שנולדו להורים חילונים נקבעו מלידה כבעלי זהות חילונית, אולם ממחקרים חדשים עולה שלעיתים הזהות היהודית שבנפשו של אדם שונה מזו שנקבעה מלידה על פי זהות אם אתאיסטית או שאינה יהודייה

מסקנת המחקר היא כי במקרה שבו נולד אדם בגוף חילוני עם נפש שאינה מתאימה לגופו, יש לעודד אותו לעבור לחיות כבן הקבוצה הדתית התואמת את זהותו או לעבור תהליך התאמה לזהותו היהודית, מפני שילדים אלו סובלים סבל כפול ומכופל: לא זו בלבד שנולדו למשפחות לא דתיות או לא יהודיות שאינן יכולות להבין לנפשם או לספק את צורכיהם היהודיים הבסיסיים ביותר, הם נרדפים גם בשל השנאה הרווחת כלפי היהדות

מטרתו של מסמך זה היא להבטיח שכל ילד שנולד עם זהות יהודית בישראל ובעולם כולו יזכה לחופש לחיות את חייו על פי דרכו

 שאר המאמר...

 

(I took off the periods that were meant to be placed at the ends of paragraphs here because they look so awkward when they appear in the wrong place! Another sign of prejudice against right-to-left printing, or just Hebrew? Or is it my computer, because it runs, language-wise, on an English-speaking foundation? — HDG)

One more pic from David Israel's article:

This woman who protested the fact that Jews wore Tefillin in public must be taught to
work on overcoming her Judeophobia (not "Judiphobia"...which Judi are you referring to? 😂).

Fair is fair, right? 

But seriously, I admit that I recognize the flaw in this article: It seems that we cannot carry around both sets of the ideas I presented here in our heads at the same time. 

We must choose one. 

I suspect that "Gali bat Horin" was thinking about this issue, too. And David Israel, after her. (Or, perhaps, before her. But he didn't write the original article and present it the way she did.)

At least the Jewish soul in the secular body doesn't require drastic physical changes (like the pressure to get hormone replacements and surgery, for example)...only working on understanding the soul, so that bringing it out so that it can live openly and breathe freely, which the person can do, as the Canadians say, themself, isn't such a problem.

Did you hear that, "Yehudit" and "Yehuda"? 😉

 

A happy Rosh Hodesh Elul ! ראש חודש אלול סמח