Jewish Odysseus: Honey, Has it Really Come to this?

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Honey, Has it Really Come to this?

From this:

to this...:

2 comments:

Moishe3rd said...: Indeed.
Of course. It happened on Purim.
It is the time when Hashem allows the nations of the world to recognize that Amalek exists and wishes to destroy Israel.
And, Purim is the time where G-d's Hand is Hidden.
On might think that today, Amalek should be Ahmanutjob of Iran or the evil Nasrallah of Hezbollah...
No - today's Amalek of Purim is the insane, psychopathic Mumblemumble Qaddafi...
(Incidentally - from whence do we know each other again...?); March 21, 2011 at 2:31:00 PM PDT
Moishe3rd said...: Ah yes - Mecc or Meic or something like that.
Very nice.
I shall now have to become a Follower of ye...
:); March 21, 2011 at 8:38:00 PM PDT

The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.