porn
A creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate emotions
A clip from Neve Dekalim has been posted, showing what appears to be the final farewell to a Gaza synagouge, or perhaps a girl's school. The clip makes no arguments, provides no information, and no context. It's meant to break your heart and it succeeds, masterfully .
Some afterthoughts:
1 - Where are the boys? Is it a girl's school, or does the camera linger on female faces for emotional effect?
2 - What's that song they are singing through the first few minutes of the clip? Who decided to make it part of the farewell-to-the-synagouge liturgy?
3 - Is there a farewell-to-the-synagouge liturgy? Or was it created by the community leaders? From what I saw, the liturgy included (1) a song (2) the concluding bits of Ne'eila (3) A kel molay (4) the Dayan Haemet, or justification of the judgement (5) Avinu Malkeinu (6) another song.
Sidenote: I support the right of a community to create its own liturgy for special circumstances, but it isn't something commonly seen in an Orthodox shul. What, for example, would the Hasidim have done for a farewell-to-the-synagouge liturgy, if it was their synagouge being dismantled?
Anyway, click on the link, but have a tissue handy.
