No Joke

The Joke’s On Me

Ah, Linda may chide me for several days of not writing something spiritual, something religious. Been thinking religious though. Starting with reading our Scripture that the Lectionary for Year B prescribes for the upcoming Sunday. Cogitating that on Sunday mornings we read more Scripture than anyone listens to -- an Old Testament reading, a psalm, an Epistle reading, and a Gospel reading. We don’t really have to do all that, the prayer book rubrics say that we may read one or two lessons, and the psalm is optional; if there is Holy Communion we always hear a Gospel reading. So contemplating this reminded me that our Bible reading tradition comes from Jewish synagogue tradition of hearing two readings: a reading from the Law and a reading from one of the Prophets. 

Which took me to a favorite Jewish website to see what the Torah readings are for this week and for Shabbat, June 26, 2012 (Sivan 26, 5772). Read the readings there, Numbers 13:1 through 15:41 and Joshua 2:1 through 2:24, and the commentary. Listened to some of the Scripture read in Hebrew by the rabbi. Remembered that the site has a Jewish Humor section, and so lost a half-hour or more immersed in Jewish jokes. Reading Jewish jokes is never a waste of time and can be a good way to be carried away from one’s worries for a while, a Sabbath of sorts, a mini-sabbatical. Which for me defines +Time.

Realizing that my morning think and blog writing time had evaporated while enjoying Jewish humor, the brilliant notion occurred to me to copy and paste some of the jokes as my +Time posting this morning. Unfortunately, although the jokes are all listed as being in the public domain, the website blocks copying.

Sorry. Time for my treadmill walk anyway.

TW