Desire and Authenticity: The Tzitzit and the Harlot
Who am I really, and what is most important to me? Does sexual desire bring us farther away
from the answers, or possibly closer to them? In this fantastical tale, an object of desire stands
at the top of golden ladders, while a piece of cloth can fly and slap us in the face. In what might
be the Talmudic reversal of Hollywood’s “Pretty Woman”, this story ends with the harlot riding
back in shining armor to save the yeshiva student from his mundane life…
from the answers, or possibly closer to them? In this fantastical tale, an object of desire stands
at the top of golden ladders, while a piece of cloth can fly and slap us in the face. In what might
be the Talmudic reversal of Hollywood’s “Pretty Woman”, this story ends with the harlot riding
back in shining armor to save the yeshiva student from his mundane life…
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