Super Bowl

Will Sunday be Kurt Warner’s last game? “In the back of your mind, this could be a perfect scenario to leave the game,” he said, adding, “I’m going to step back and I’m going to pray about it and God’s going to show me if he wants me to continue in this game, if he’s got more for me to accomplish or some other calling.”

This exclusively male game is reflected in the turn of speech calling God “he.” The Creator of heaven and earth is no more “he” than “she,” but the Rambam, who 1000 years ago compiled the definitive law regarding the 613 Commandments, writes concerning a child or one who is unable to comprehend the ethereal truths that make up reality it is permissible to teach them that God is an old man with a beard.

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor says answering the question, why did God create the world, responds that God wanted a dwelling place in low. To God who is beyond physical or spiritual time and space is low, but football is really low—bunch of grown men hitting each other as hard as they can to try to get the ball; where men dress up in tight pants slapping each other on the ass, piling on, tight ends, trying to get penetration—God will surely be there; he wouldn’t miss sitting there on his heavenly throne with a beer.