Why is the blog called Accidentally Jewish?
The first reaction to, "My blog is Accidentally Jewish," is usually laughter and then the person will ask, "why is it called that? How are you accidentally Jewish?"
I say, "well, I converted," and they respond, "That sounds intentional, not accidental."
True, true.
When you are studying something intensely, sometimes you need breaks. When I was studying Judaism, sometimes I needed breaks from Jewish books. I would go, pick out some book from the store, like The Geisha's Granddaughter and it would wind up having a Jewish theme. Argh.
Ronnie and I were eating chicken pot pie at some point during the year of study leading up to my conversion. I was complaining about a book I was reading, "all I wanted was a non-Jewish book, I can't read another book about Judaism... and this one turned out to be accidentally Jewish. All these books are accidentally jewish!"
Ronnie said it would be a good name for a book. I said, "No, my book will be called Shabbat and the Single Girl." This blog, however, took on the name. (And so did my manuscript that is currently gathering dust in a drawer.)
No such thing as accidentally Jewish. Not accidental. Sometimes things
seem accidental. In Israel especially nothing's accidental.
i think i like you because we have nothing in common. see, I'm from
Indiana...oh? what? you are? oh...ok well...but that's it then...in
fact...Leah, you're name has an "e" in it...and mine...oh...darn, well,
turns out mine does too, (actually two of 'em but that'd defeat the purpose
of my purported sarcasm)...
sigh, but...what really gets me...is that i'm accidentially
nondenominational, evangelical and an humanist...because I read it, while
it was overcoming me...
so, in that area, we are so similar, and, I am only commenting because it
was too hard to resist commenting on a comment section that says, Leah in
Chicago loves comments...i had to.
too bad it was so lame...but nonetheless, it was complimentary, because, I
really like it (the quote about loving comments AND the accidental
stumbling onto "who" we are, so to speak).
so...uh...there (blows friendly rasberry and goes back to twitter to sign
off for the night).
So long and thanks for all the fish....
and, i wish i understood what it really meant to be jewish-I knew some of
"them" in new york when i chanced to visit there often, and some were
family, too, but i just don't know the intracasies (wow, that isn't spelled
right, is it?) when i'm tired, words, even when spelled right, don't look
right, so I have to look up every single word I spell, or give up on hoping
to spell any of them correctly...laziness dictates the latter...which is my
signal for bedtime...night!
@jesatiu
ps. seriously, I liike the idea of accidentially doing things in the
context of how you put it. a true compliment.