ATDTDA pr 347 i, j, and k smokefoot

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

David Morris 
>
>  But the silence (until your
> response) afterwards from this list was making me wonder what this
> list really cares about...

"There's nothing I love" said Pig Bodine...

> There were many veils in the Tabernacle (Moses' portable tent-temple)
> and the later Temple of Jerusalem, but the really significant one was
> the one that separated the Holy of Holies (containing the ark of the
> covenant) from the rest of the temple/tent.

so that Would Not be the one that Josephus saw.
I was wondering why such an important article
would be of Babylonian manufacture!

>
> And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest
> bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the
> vail shall divide unto you between the holy [place] and the most holy.

so, human beings at work are holy,
but human beings as consumers, most holy!
To suggest that a department store takes the place
in 20th century America of the Temple in ancient Israel
does seem to go along with the Frankfurt School idea...
or maybe the D&G?
But I don't think those theorists wrapped the metaphor
back into the religious details the way we're seeing here.

Who or what is the Messiah who (or, whose passing?)
will rip the veil in this secular temple?

Again I'm thinking Triangle Shirtwaist...labor movement...

>
> In accordance with the Talmud,[1] when the Birkat HaMazon (Grace after
> Meals) is recited by at least ten thousand seated at one meal, the
> special blessing "Blessed is Ha-Shem our God, the God of Israel, who
> dwells between the Cherubim" is traditionally added to the regular
> liturgy.
>
> The word is also used to refer to the depictions of Cherubim in
> Solomon's Temple, including the two cherubim that were part of the Ark
> of the Covenant. The Book of Numbers depicts the voice of God as
> speaking to Moses from between the two Cherubim atop the Ark (Numbers
> 7:89).
>

Is there anything in Smokefoot's to correspond to that? Hmm...