Saturday, May 16, 2009

Hippiety

Hippie.
Piety.
Hippiety.

Yesterday in Central Park, I was playing frisbee and hackysack with some friends, and an Orthodox Jew happened upon us.

He asked us if we were Jewish, and when he found out who among us was, he offered Sabbath candles and blessings and asked if we wanted to pray with him.

Which I think demonstrates a difference between particularly religious Jews and particularly religious folks of other faiths--non-Jews often go out preaching and trying to convert others, while Jews will simply try to convert their own.

Jew.
Jehovah's Witnesses.
Jewhovah's Witnesses.*


* As in...

Knock knock.
Jews there.

Jew.
Jew who?

Jewhovah.

4 comments:

  1. did you believes that jews only converting their own ??

    destiny-url.blogspot.com

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  2. In this scenario, it seems like that was what was happening, yes.

    Thanks for writing, destiny!

    I always appreciate questions from elsewhere in the universe.

    Fates.
    Testing.
    Fatesting.

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  3. Actually, Jews don't prothelasize. So you are correct. It was a Jew trying to encourage you to be more religious.

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  4. Boom!

    That's what I was thinking.

    That's conversion for the Jews--trying to convert not-so-Jewy Jews into Jewier Jews (by showing them all the Jewy fun that can be had).

    Jewy.
    Wheeee!.
    Jewheeeeee!

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