hi im new to the thread i got this as an email and i thought it gives some food for thought….
The day pencil skirts were created, I laughed.
From my perch in Paris where I direct the Designers, I laughed.A laugh of approval.A laugh of deception.A laugh of cruelty.The evilest of evil laughs.Why did I laugh?Because I realized I’ve got them.No, not the weak ones.Not the ones falling between the cracks.But the best of the best..Only THEY can help me.They’re the ones I can feed off of.The weak have nothing to offer me.The strong ones are the ones I need.Yes, the best of the best.The “Benot Yisrael”So she’ll do her daily mirror check.Pearl earrings
in place.Button down.Black tights.Skirt covers knees.A true Bat Yisrael.I watch from afar.And I continue to laugh my evil laugh.Just wait till she sits down.I’ve tried in the past with the collarbone, but theres no fooling them. They’re too strong for me. with the elbows, there’s no
way.Thatleaves me with only one solution- the knees. Covered when they look in the mirror, and so -they innocently think- covered the whole day.True, there are those few moments here and there when she notices, soshe’ll tug on her skirt a bit but I’m not worried
because there will be plenty a moment when she won’t notice.But fortunately, the Rabbis in front of the classroom do.And so do the weak girls.And so does G-d.Even for those who do realize perhaps this skirt is too short, there’salways the black tights excuse to help me out.Thankfully, they don’t seem to realize that black knees are still knees.Oh I’ve educated them well.Secretly, slipped the word “Duty-length” into their
vocabulary.That did it.They’re more defensive about it than anyone else.If they buy a skirt that by
mistake is “duty length” I watch proudly as they run to the seamstress to chop it off to just below the knee.The stronger amongst them will say a little longer below the knee, but they also don’t realize that that won’t help them very much when they’re sitting.Then there are those who do scare me because they really are trying to do the right thing. So when they sit down, they’ll tug on their skirts and pull it over their knees. Or so they think. I just hope they’ll be
sitting with one leg on top of the other and then they think their knees are covered but in actuality, only one is.Thank G-d, they don’t take their leaders too seriously when they encourage them to go for four inches below the knee.
I’ve succeeded in getting them into defensive mode when it comes to these things.I’d worried way back that they would realize that their relationship with G-d
is ideally that of agood marriage, and their leaders merelytheir husbands close friends coming to tell them what they’re husband REALLY likes.Because if they would realize that, they would RUN to buy the “Duty length” skirts. Because when you truly love your husband, you
run to prepare whatever it is he likes.But then I would be out of business.Thanks to my hard work, that’s not the case.Seems their marriage is a bit shaky after all.And to my credit, their “Husband” watches them sadly thinking is thatall our marriage means to you? All you can give me are skirts that JUSTcover the knees. Is our marriage merely an obligation to get over within the easiest way possible? Is that how much you value me?And I laugh.With much appreciation to all those who’ve assisted my cause over the years,And with gratitude to all those who’ve provided me with many good laughs,The Satan Editors note:Yes, he has got us in more ways than not, and yes it’s so easy to thinkI’m a good Bat Yisrael girl so what are a few inches anyway?But just recently, we were forced to see that when it comes to the aim of a gun or a rocket, a few
inches really DO matter.And we witnessed Hashem being SO careful with His inches, so manyrockets JUST missing their aim.Maybe
we can show our “Husband” some well deserved love.And be careful with our inches too.