This is an idea I have mulled over a bit for years now. Perhaps the protagonist shouldn't be Jewish, to avoid the appearance of anti-Semitism or blood libel, but that's how I conceived it.
A holy Rabbi and lifelong student of Kabballah is the principle figure here. He is beloved by all in his community and considered by many to be a saint. It is said that just to enter his presence is to receive a blessing.
His studies in the Kabballah have taught him that, when this world was created, the limitless holy light burst its crude vessels of matter and left divine sparks trapped througout the mundane creation. It is the duty of a holy man to liberate these sparks and unite them with the godhead, so that this world will eventually be reconciled with god in the spiritual perfection of the world to come.
After sundown on the first Saturday of every month, when the Sabbath has ended, he ventures out into the night and commits horrible acts of rape, murder, and dismemberment. He takes no pleasure in such acts; he considers them a horrible burden and goes about them in an attitude of sorrowful devotion, in order to free the divine light that is trapped in the most debased and perverse elements of the physical creation.
Perhaps he is a Lamed Vavnik, one of the 36 saints in every age that allow for the preservation of the world...
Thursday, August 2, 2007
...or something much more colorful like that
Esther successfully ran her marathon and, unlike Pheidippides, she did not drop dead immediately afterward. Thanks to all who pledged money for Daniel McGowan.
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