Comments on: Tilting at Windmills? http://rabbibrant.com/2008/04/27/tilting-at-windmills/ Random Blogthoughts by Rabbi Brant Rosen Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:33:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Jordan Margolis http://rabbibrant.com/2008/04/27/tilting-at-windmills/#comment-3183 Jordan Margolis Fri, 09 May 2008 16:02:52 +0000 http://shalomrav.wordpress.com/?p=1036#comment-3183 Wow, I never knew this when writing next year's Purim production, "haMAN of Fakachta, The Implausible Shpiel". Now I'll have to add some appropriate lines (by appropriate, I mean on the subject, but certainly not appropriate by decency standards!) Wow, I never knew this when writing next year’s Purim production, “haMAN of Fakachta, The Implausible Shpiel”.
Now I’ll have to add some appropriate lines (by appropriate, I mean on the subject, but certainly not appropriate by decency standards!)

]]> By: E. CARRERAS http://rabbibrant.com/2008/04/27/tilting-at-windmills/#comment-3166 E. CARRERAS Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:10:00 +0000 http://shalomrav.wordpress.com/?p=1036#comment-3166 Definitely there was a strong Jewish influence on Cervantes. After the battle of Le Panto he was a prisoner of the Muslims (Moors) for more than four years in North Africa, and no tough hardships were imposed on him. Cervantes was a fifteenth century Spaniard, and it was logical at that time to receive Christian, Muslim and Jewish influence in most of Spain, In many cities, such a Toledo, and for many years, perhaps a whole generation lived in Harmony. Today some of us are Quixotic about being able to live in Harmony and peace amongst us. Let us give it a try, as we live each day, remembering Don Quixote’s concept of peace and justice. Of corse that is easy to say if you live in Costa Rica. Lets not judge either Cervantes nor Shakespeare, as men able of chauvinism or prejudice. They were geniuses of exactly the same epoch. If they leaned once in a while to one side or the other, good for them, and good for who may today enjoy them. Enrique Carreras - Comment by E. CARRERAS | April 29, 2008 Definitely there was a strong Jewish
influence on Cervantes.

After the battle of Le Panto he was a prisoner of the Muslims
(Moors) for more than four years in North Africa, and no
tough hardships were imposed on him.

Cervantes was a fifteenth century Spaniard, and it was
logical at that time to receive Christian, Muslim and
Jewish influence in most of Spain,

In many cities, such a Toledo, and for many years, perhaps
a whole generation lived in Harmony.

Today some of us are Quixotic about being able to live

in Harmony and peace amongst us.

Let us give it a try, as we live each day, remembering
Don Quixote’s concept of peace and justice.

Of corse that is easy to say if you live in Costa Rica.

Lets not judge either Cervantes nor Shakespeare, as men
able of chauvinism or prejudice.

They were geniuses of exactly the same epoch.
If they leaned once in a while to one side or the other,
good for them, and good for who may
today enjoy them.

Enrique Carreras -

Comment by E. CARRERAS | April 29, 2008

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