Comments | jonbaker: Lonely Man of Faith

jonbaker

Lonely Man of Faith

Jul 13, 2006 17:38

Steg described himself in another blog as a "tree-hugging MO". He demonstrated this as follows:

«hugs a tree»
«reads to it a bedtime story from Lonely Man of Faith»

which inspired the following:

The Lonely Bear of FaithLittle JoeBear was looking for his God ( Read more... )

Comments 11

mabfan July 14 2006, 12:56:23 UTC

Nice story, and now I'm in the mood for kugel.

boroparkpyro July 15 2006, 19:58:27 UTC

thanks for making my dream a reality!

now we just need to find someone to illustrate it ;-)

(gut vokh / shavua‘ tov from Israel)

azzacanth July 16 2006, 05:23:12 UTC

Curious, why does one assume it must be lonely?

jonbaker July 17 2006, 22:11:31 UTC

Because it's presenting the central idea of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's extended essay, "The Lonely Man of Faith." For a full treatment, see Rabbi Ronnie Ziegler's lectures at Yeshivat Har Etzion.

Steg: noted, and fixed in both places.

boroparkpyro July 16 2006, 08:13:17 UTC

btw i sent you an email about the link. have you gotten it?

jonbaker July 17 2006, 22:17:43 UTC

Thank you all. You know, this is the first piece of fiction I've written since 5th grade. We were assigned to write a story. I tried to write a science-fiction story about some people on Mars. I had a good idea, but couldn't write the characters. At that point, I decided I couldn't write fiction. Well, I found a way to write a story.

Debbie thought the whole thing was adorable.
My mother didn't quite get it; her comment: "I don't think a child could decipher this."

Did y'all get the little inside jokes? The quartered log and the kugel are both halachic ideas (one is a revi'is, the other a Shabbos food). And Tatty talks in halachic mode - R' Soloveitchik's father is widely considered to be the model for the son's essay "Halachic Man."