Noli Irritare Leones

Hugo has a Jewish sister, and he is explaining how, despite his study of Kaballah, he of course doesn’t know as much about Judaism as his sister*. I agree, saying that, though I have heard a shofar, lighted Chanukkah candles, and attended seders, I don’t know nearly as much about Judaism as my Jewish friends. As I say this, I realize that I have stepped on something, and bend down to find that I have stepped on, and broken, a tiny, toy sized shofar.

* A little oddly, the dream assumes this to be true even though, in the dream, Hugo is claiming less knowledge than his sister specifically about the religious aspects of Judaism and, in the dream, the sister received a completely secular upbringing and has only attended Temple maybe once as an adult (a service which dream Hugo attended with her and mentions in his remarks). The dream could have supplied a much better comparison than it did to show dream Hugo’s ignorance of Judaism.**

** I actually think that the dream was inspired by some remarks in this post by Rene about pearl clutching white women, such as

Seriously pearl clutchers, how the fuck do you know what is and isn’t racism?

You’ve never been followed through a store, asked if you were your childs nanny, shown cheaper merchandise, had someone look you in the eye and call you a nigger, jigaboo, babys mama, or mocked during a lecture because you dared to question a professors authority on your cultural heritage. Do you have your womanhood questioned constantly? Do magazines create special editions to show that your kind of women can be considered beautiful to?

but then went out of its way to provide a dream parallel where the parallel point would be nonsensical.

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