Ms. Ackerman also provides a wry portrait of a transgendered Christian who recalls with a drawl her feeling of being exiled from both the church and the city itself, which she nevertheless insists on loving for its beauty.
Rabbi Akiva insists on "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Leviticus 19 18) while Ben Azzai holds that the assertion in Genesis that every human being is created in God's image, b'tzelem elohim, is more critical.
In the 16th century, for example, critiques about a surplus of desire for authenticity came from Catholics who longed for the good old days when Lutherans submitted to the pope and didn't ask to relate to Jesus directly (and in turn from Lutherans who whined about Anabaptists insisting on authentically loving their enemies rather than submitting to the governing authorities' calls to arms).
If you feel that other people are insisting on remembering your loved ones using rituals, approaches and concrete actions that don't align with how you wish to remember your loved one, thank them for their suggestions kindly but remind them that everyone has their own way of remembering others and that you'll be keeping to yours.
She kept on insisting on her love.
The notion of anyone wedding for love would not only have been laughed at, it would have been ignored; and even in the nineteenth century the young queen Victoria and, two generations later, her granddaughter, Alexandra of Hesse, were looked at somewhat askance for insisting on a love match (with Prince Albert, and with the tsarevich, Nicholas Romanov of Russia, respectively).
She insisted on transcending labels.
Always he comes back weaker and yet refreshed; always he insists on making love to her immediately.
Second, the officer does not read out the words; he murmurs them to himself, the first of several characters to retreat into voice-over, and this sense of men as sequestered spirits deepens throughout the film — as does our treasuring of those who, against all odds, insist on brotherly love.
