Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Living with Vulgarities

I have to say that this morning, I took out my Viduy and spend some time reading the list of sins that our people may commit in our time.  I had a laugh at the one about vulgarity.  It reads that we sin in our speech by being vulgar.  This is clearly easy to understand and one clearly can identify vulgar speech.
I am guilty of this this current year more than any other.  I have decided to myself partly that if I am going to be sinful in one category, this is going to be it. I must say that I personally enjoy expressing myself with vulgarity in given situations.  But that said, I must note that in my experiences in our Nation of Jewish Israelites, I am particularly aggreived by the actions of one particular jew who is a leader of our community and a Torah Scholar in esteem himself.  Due to this persons egregious errors in adhering to Jewish law, I feel that it is my own priviledge to announce here in that I will not comply with the adherance to keeping my speech free of vulgarity until perhaps this fellow comes forth and admits his wrong doing and brings me back to the level of the others who are merited with being esteemed Torah Scholars.  I am an outcast myself in a few bridges of our nation and if I am to be reenlisted among our people at the level that a Jewish Student of Torah merits, I will freely absolve myself from this act of speaking vulgarities.  Of course, mind you, I am very careful of course to save them for their place and time; but in my own mind and smiling grin, I will continue to speak such vulgarities even by myself until the day of this reannealing takes place.   Mark my words.  Vulgarities are really not the biggest of sins and I do believe that a finely placed vulgarity does bring honor to our Jewish people if done in the most pleasant and amiable and friendly sort of way.
So I do not think I will include this among the changes I will be striving for in the upcoming year.
%^#*^&!

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