Saturday, July 21, 2007

Quoting Pilar Rahola

Pilar Rahola is a Catalan nationalist and anti-fascist journalist, writer an politician. She wrote this article that appeared on the kehilla's weekly newspaper, Nuevo Mundo Israelita. I'm going to quote her on this article, because I found it funny, sarcastic and at the same time interestingly refreshing to me as a jew:

Un chiste lo resume de forma magnífica: un día, un judío subió a la montaña y, al bajar, aseguró: “Dios es la verdad, y la verdad está en la Ley”. Se llamaba Moisés. Siglos después, otro judío aseveró: “La verdad es Dios, y Dios es amor”. Se llamaba Jesús. Luego apareció otro que, sin amor divino, aseguró que la verdad era el dinero. Era un tal Karl Marx. Después llegó Freud y situó la verdad algo más abajo del bolsillo, en la zona crucial de la entrepierna. Y, para acabar el círculo, apareció el judío Einstein y lo barrió todo: “La verdad es relativa”.
"this paragraph can roughly be translated as this: A joke resumes this in a magnific way: One day, a jew climbed to the top of the mountain and when he came down he assured "G'd is the truth, and the truth is in the Halacha (the Law)". His name was Moses. Centuries after that, another jew came and said "The truth is G'd, and G'd is love". His name was Jesus. After that, another one came and, whihout a trace of divine love, assured that the truth was the money. He was some guy named Karl Heinrich Marx. After that came Sigmund Schlomo Freud and he placed the truth was a little below the pockets, in the crucial area between the thighs. And at the end, to finish the circle, Albert Einstein Koch showed up and swept everything off by just saying "the truth is just relative"."

Just a few words that make me so proud of being jewish...!עם ישראל חי

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