Culture  Tamar Zmora
Saturday at the beach
Tamar Zmora
Published: 11.07.10, 08:16
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1. Tamar, fact check
Joshua ,   Tel Aviv   (07.11.10)
You can't buy cigarettes on Saturday? Why didn't you just walk into one of the kiosks and ask? You walked by a bunch of them, by your own admission. Not a serious blog - not worth the time to read it. Tamar disappoints.
2. I decided early in life I did not want to get skin cancer,
Rivkah   (07.11.10)
so I avoided becoming a beach bunny. I get some sun which is necessary for synthesis of vitamin D to an active isomer. Why parade around a beach showing what only your husband show see? That could not possibly please the Lord who calls for modesty in attire. When we would be invited to swim parties for medical people by my husband's employers, I would not wear a swim suit in front of other people, but would sit on the side of the pool in more modest attire. Women who joined the parade of flashing their bodies in swim suits were gawked at or gossiped about and pressured to have breast implants if they were not a size D. What a waste of valuable time that can be put to better use.
3. to #2 for that they invented the fake tan
ghostq   (07.11.10)
which make people turn orange, personaly I don't mind what kind of skin color people have, as long as the people wear minimal clothes and not much talking. some people just talk to much.
4. To #2
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (07.11.10)
If nudity in and of itself were sinful, wouldn't we come into this world clothed??? I guess, God screwed up again. If you, however, want to get bored out of your skull, try a nude beach resort for 3 days. I say "3 days," because you're too worried about how you stack up on day 1. By lunch on day 2 the adventure starts to lose its charm and seriously impairs your appetite. By day three, what you had done as a big joke stops being funny and the boredom sets in. Sex is in the brain, regardless of what someone else does or doesn't wear. If a husband only hangs around for what he gets to see, he's not much of a husband to start with. Maybe you have to have been to one of those resorts to understand this, but I used to threaten to throw my late husband into a room full of naked women, if he didn't fly right and he didn't want any part of anything even close to that, ever again.
5. To #1
Joseph ,   Arizona   (07.12.10)
If it's such a waste of time to read it, why did you read it?
6. 4 M. Hartley: It is true babies are born naked. But the
Rivkah   (07.12.10)
Lord did not send Adam and Eve away from the Garden of Eden naked. He clothed them with sheepskins. Why would godly women be described as clothed in modest apparel if no clothes were what the Lord expected? If you read the Song of Songs of Solomon which some believe is the Messiah looking at His wife who are true believers. Others think it is a story of Solomon and Abishag, but he loved so many other women, that is unlikely that such a love would fade if it were Abishag. The Lord delights in the high towers of a woman's breasts the He created. But it is a chaste love and nudity is not in the scene, just the imagining of it. The Lord Yahweh loves His creation, but He hates sin. How can a man look at a naked woman or scantily clad woman and not sin in his eyes and heart and then with his body in lustful thoughts and masturbation that Micah 2: 1 forbid? If the man thinks of the scantily clad woman while making love to his wife, that is spiritual adultery and the wife feels no love from him emotionally since his heart and mind are with a photo or a memory of a nudie or nearly nude or provokatively dressed woman. Job would not even look upon a maid which meant when women were nearby, his eyes were downcast. That might seem awfully humble for such a noble man, but it protected him from images coming into his eyes to his mind and heart and soul and then actions. You should have a doctor inject you with 100mg of testosterone and watch yourself bounce off the walls with aggression and hypersexuality. That is how a normal male feels most of the time. When a normal male is having a conversation with a female he is thinking of what her breasts look like, like Woody Allen said. Men need help not to sin but women want to flaunt tempation all over the place. The Lord Yahweh will not protect Jerusalem from a coming nuclear attack for three reasons and one of them is women with wanton eyes. The other reasons Isaiah said are flaunting of sodomy and cheating the poor. Wanton eyes. Even the eyes of a woman can be a temptation to a vulnerable male. Go to Facebook.com and put in the name of Julie Loo Mendes and look at how chaste she looks. Before she married she was glamourous but decided to tone it down so she would not attract other males and make her husband jealous. She even put on a few pounds as a protection from temptation. Her husband is a righteous man who does not want to flaunt his wife's body to others which is what a lot of men with trophy wives do. He has a trophy wife and he does not flaunt her because that would not please the Lord. Yes, Julie is half Black and a lot of beautiful women are mixed race. But she treasures the things the Lord treasures. You might pray for her to have some sons like you had since she now has three daughters and a farmer/rancher in Central California as prominent as her husband needs some sons, too.
7. To #6
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (07.12.10)
What the hell happened to the fig leaves???? I'm starting to wonder why God gave you a brain, when all I ever read from you are endless repetitions of somebody else's dissertations. Why do you blame one person for the sins in somebody else's head and heart and why did God create the very beauty of which He/She knew that it would lead some men/women into sinning? What kind of cruel games is your God playing? We were given a conscience, brains and a free will and whether or not we blame others for the consequences of misusing those gifts, in the end, we always and only have to face and answer for ourselves. As for the woman on FB, whom you hold up as an example for I'm not sure exactly what, she should have her a-- kicked for "uglifying" herself, because her husband is an insecure putz. When I was young and reasonably attractive, I asked my husband, if it bothered him when other men gave me the once-over to which his answer was that he didn't expect those other men to be blind, that he didn't want to wake up to a wife that was so ugly nobody else ever looked at her, and that he considered those once-overs a complimnet he appreciated I don't know or care how you see that, but I can look at and admire a beautiful, naked man without going off on some sexual tangent. I have a young friend, who happens to be gorgeous. I have no compunction to tell him that he's gorgeous and I know that he doesn't think for one minute that I'll throw him on the nearest kitchen table and assault him. But I'm sure there are people out there, who want to put a bra and tank top on the Venus de Milo, and who think Michaelangelo's David should wear jockeys or better yet, boxer shorts. Those, in my opinion, are the people with the problems.
8. A MASK OF NORMALCY
Avi ,   NYC   (07.13.10)
We are flooded by blogs related to YNET, whose purpose is to convince the world that Israel is a normal place, and the Israelis are normal people. It is as pathetic as South Africa's attempts at the 70's to portray itself as a normal place. On the other hand it is true that Israel is a normal place, a normal apartheid state, where one can buy ice cream while strolling at the beach.
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