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Doc: The great chain of being is actually a pyramid. At the top is God. Haaallelujah~ And below him are the angels. Haaaallelujah!~

Catholic: Aaaah you can't say that!

Doc: Why not?

Catholic: It's Lent!

Doc: I'm Jewish.

[Discussion about saying "Hallelujah" during Lent ensues.]

Catholic: I won't say the Y word for you!

Doc: . . . I don't actually care that much . . .




Doc: Where my lighting designers at? *turns off most of the lights* Would you guys say shadow is winning right now?

LD: . . . Well, I'd say this is a more dramatic look than you had.

Date: 2011-03-17 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raininglight7.livejournal.com
er, which Y word would that be?

Date: 2011-03-17 03:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raininglight7.livejournal.com
ahh okay. I was like, "yiddish? yarmulke? *does not understand*"

Date: 2011-03-17 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eatenbyfangirls.livejournal.com
Damnit, I hate being sick. I have to miss the most entertaining classes. :(

Date: 2011-03-17 04:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mercuriazs.livejournal.com
I'm loling about basically everything you've written in this post.

Date: 2011-03-17 04:32 pm (UTC)
newredshoes: possum, "How embarrassing!" (barbaric yawp.)
From: [personal profile] newredshoes
But is he a good singer? A bad singer doing a good Hallelujah is just murder.

And hee, I sometimes wonder if there should just be little cheat sheets or cards you can hand out. "'Yahweh': Not a thing Jews really say."

Date: 2011-03-17 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mercuriazs.livejournal.com
... What?


It's not?





Why have people bothered to mislead me about this?

Date: 2011-03-17 04:52 pm (UTC)
newredshoes: possum, "How embarrassing!" (Default)
From: [personal profile] newredshoes
I've never heard a Jew use it in earnest. If they're talking about God, they'll say Adonai (Lord) or HaShem (The Name) or, most of the time, God. Yahweh comes from, I'm guessing, an Anglicized reading of yud-hay-vav-hay: Wikipedia says "The word Yahweh is a modern scholarly convention for the Hebrew יהוה, transcribed into Roman letters as YHWH and known as the Tetragrammaton, for which the actual pronunciation is disputed." The whole Actual Name of God is something else entirely.

Date: 2011-03-17 05:11 pm (UTC)
newredshoes: possum, "How embarrassing!" (Default)
From: [personal profile] newredshoes
Pretty much. Also, only the priests in Temple times could pronounce the name of God, and even then they only did it once a year. I could get into a whole bunch of things about text and story and Judaism, but it is my lunch hour and it is 62 whole degrees so I'm heading outside! I'll shorthand that conversation and link to this.

Yeah, from what I can see, it's a Christian thing used to talk about Jewish/Old Testament stuff. (I mean, I don't think we have anything against it. It's not offensive. It's just... not ours? Plus there's no "w" sound in Hebrew. So, yeah!)

Date: 2011-03-17 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mercuriazs.livejournal.com
This is all super cool! Danke!

Date: 2011-03-18 01:44 am (UTC)
batyatoon: (chibi!)
From: [personal profile] batyatoon
*cracks up* There should TOTALLY be those cards.

Date: 2011-03-18 02:00 pm (UTC)
newredshoes: possum, "How embarrassing!" (Default)
From: [personal profile] newredshoes
THEY WOULD BE SO USEFUL.

Date: 2011-03-17 09:25 pm (UTC)
ext_21680: Blocky drawing of me (Default)
From: [identity profile] e-mily.livejournal.com
The LD comment cracked. me. up. I want to share it with the Boss.

Date: 2011-03-18 01:45 am (UTC)
batyatoon: (Default)
From: [personal profile] batyatoon
... why can't you say Hallelujah during Lent?

Date: 2011-03-18 06:04 am (UTC)
silveraspen: silver trees against a blue sky background (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveraspen
What [livejournal.com profile] adiva_calandia said. Basically, it's a statement of celebration, where Lent is a period of contemplation and sacrifice and waiting for the celebration to come.

Date: 2011-03-18 02:01 pm (UTC)
newredshoes: possum, "How embarrassing!" (Default)
From: [personal profile] newredshoes
Huh! Thing I did not know, but which makes sense -- thanks to you both!

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