Look what I just found:

http://www.jewishbroadcast.com/index.php

How cool is that? You can sit at your computer listening to Jewish music while you work, or while you pretend to work, or while you blog, or while you surf for pictures of naked people (don't surf for pictures of naked people, please), or while you surf through ebay trying to find a replacement part for your 1973 refrigerator, or while you gaze at random clothing websites and wonder if you will ever adjust to the sudden widespread consumer availability of long (LONG!) skirts.

[My prediction: no, you will probably not adjust, or at least, you will not adjust until such time as aforementioned long skirts are no longer fashionable and go back to being impossible to find, the result of which will be that you are forced to either wear your skirts with the waistband around your thighs (not a problem if tunic-length tops are still in style), or do what you've always really wanted to do anyway, which of course is revert to toga-style desert-wear, after the style of our foremothers, which, in my opinion, is probably what God really intended.]

Of course, if you happen to detest Jewish music (for shame!), you can scream in terror at the thought of doing any of the above, and you can instead program your browser to self-destruct before being directed to that link. However, if you, like me, happen to find at least some Jewish music uplifting and/or inspiring and/or moving and/or plain old pleasant to listen to, go ahead and click. It's nice and free and everything. Though you will have to endure occasional commercials for the site where they SELL the Jewish music, but hey. That's business.

By the way - if I happen to be the last person in the world to find out about this, and everyone else has already known and had it bookmarked for the last 600 years, do me a favor and don't tell me. Ok? I like to feel that I'm improving lives all over the world by providing people with new and exciting and useful information. So humor me, please. Go with it. You never heard of this before, and you never would have without ME. The RenReb is soooo cutting-edge (mod, too).

[Hey - "The Cutting Edge." Anyone ever see that sappy early 90's movie? Don't bother. It stank. Though I didn't know that the first time I saw it. I had to rent it as an (older) adult when I was feeling nostalgic, and THEN discover that it stank, and wonder if it stank the first time I saw it too, but I was too stupid young and innocent to realize it.]

Ok - so go on now, everyone, ask your question. I know you're dying to. Don't be shy.

Ok, I'll ask it for you.

"Hey, RenReb - it's the Three Weeks! What are you thinking?? Just because YOU might sit in your car during Sefirah listening to TWO music stations at the same time doesn't mean you should be offering your reading audience new ways to listen to music during the THREE WEEKS!"

You raise a good point. So, please bear in mind as you read this post that the RenReb does not condone the non-adherence to religious customs. Especially those religious customs that are quite so widespread, entrenched, and historically significant. And especially those religious customs that might - might - possibly be effective in reminding us that we are not supposed to be living this way; that we have lost something vital and critical to who we are; and that our lives and our souls are not complete, and will never be complete so long as we continue on this path.

So - if you do not listen to music during the Three Weeks, then please don't click on that link until such time as the Three Weeks are over, and we can all start planning for the Fun That Is Elul And Tishrei. Personally, I'm still hoping that this year, when the Three Weeks are over, we'll all be back in Jerusalem, listening to a whole other breed of music. You know, the way God intended.

Ok. I'm off. They're playing Beatachon, and it's one of the songs I really like.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 at 7/09/2007 08:41:00 PM.