Pillow Talk Take 2
Now this post really is about pillows and what they may signify. The mattress store owner told me that he wanted to run an ad in one of the chareidi newspapers which featured a picture of a bed with 2 pillows on it. They refused to run it unless the picture showed a second bed. One bed with 2 pillows, they said, suggested 2 people sharing a bed, an image they found inappropriate for their paper. Obviously, there were no people in the picture; it is the presence of the pillows that suggested their presence. Was it Freud who said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar? Well, he was obviously lacking in proper pillow perspective.`
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I wonder what the editor would say about the bed in our home with 5 pillows on it. Perhaps 5 people are in that bed!
Whackadoodle!
Abbi, you bring up an important point. In my last issue of Kallah Magazine I ran a piece written by a kallah class teacher that stressed the importance of getting the right teacher and allowing enough time to complete the course. Her point was that is too important to leave as a last minute afterthought kind of thing. I assure you that there was nothing explicit at all; even the word niddah did not appear. But the man in the store said that he thought the people from his area would object to anything that even mentions kallah classes. He said the parents don't want their daughters to know there are such classes until they actually have to take them. I didn't say this at the time, but I wonder what sense they are supposed to make out of their own experience of puberty with such enforced silence. Most of the halachos one learns are concerned with what a girl is already familiar with, and the other part is actually not exactly conveyed in a tiltillating manner. Moreover, acting as if one could shelter one's children from the facts of life merely by remaining silent on the subject in the present day approaches the absurd and is potentially dangerous.