Saturday, December 25

[cellio]

This morning we read about the birth of our greatest prophet, who miraculously survived at a time when an evil king had ordered newborn children killed, and who grew up to become a great leader after many trials.

Yes, today was parshat Sh'mot, the first five chapters of the book of Exodus.

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[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*beams at you*

There is probably something pithy that someone wittier than I could say about recurring patterns and/or about story and echo.

[sethg]

*applause*

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

And Happy Mithra's Birthday to you, too %^).

[kayre]

Fascinating that that reading falls on that particular day.

[cellio]

It's an unlikely (but obviously not impossible) intersection of the secular/solar and Jewish/adjusted-lunar calendars. The Jewish calendar is running "early" this year; we usually don't get to Sh'mot until early January. And, of course, Christmas doesn't usually fall on a Saturday.

[cellio]

Not original to me; it was part of the general conversation at shul, and my rabbi is the first person I heard point it out.

[cellio]

Life echoes life and stories echo stories; to quote Kohelet, there is nothing new under the sun. (Nit about sun vs. stars redacted.) :-) Moshe wasn't the first one either, I'm confident.

[cellio]

Thank you -- I hadn't known all those details of the Mithra story before. (General idea, sure, but I was missing a lot.)