re: #52 Fozzie Bear

It’s the idea that you can get off on a technicality when being judged by a deity that cracks me up.

“But God, I called no tagbacks!”

There’s a story from the Talmud where God actually speaks for one side of an argument between rabbis about a kashrut issue, but they decide the ruling according to the majority of voting members of the group—of whom, they point out, God is not one.

The story then goes that someone who has a vision of the Prophet Elijah asks how God took that, and Elijah tells him that God laughed, and said ‘my children have defeated me’.

Traditional Judaism believes that the Law was given by God, but it’s been our project ever since, to interpret it and make it work for us.