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Knight 13 ~
Bobby never was circumcised
so he was never ritually accepted
or joined the Covenant of Sinai that Moses made w/ God, as all male
babies are brought into that Covenant
by ritual circumcision, to live out a life as a Jew following the Commands/Mitzvahs that essentially are
the very scaffolding of the Jewish religion.
A Jewish person can be circumcised anytime later in life to ritually join
& affirm the Sinai Covenant made w/ God
to accept God's Laws -- ergo, to live a Jewish life.
A large number of Jews finally released
from Russia underwent ritual circumcision to affirm their Jewish
commitment to the Sinai Commandments Moses accepted for the Jewish peopl
Bobby was never a Bar-Mitzvah
(noun: "Son of the Commandments"
(mistakenly used as a transitive verb)
by which ritual of reading a few lines from the Torah scroll in a synagogue, a 13 year-old boy promises to obey the Commandments given to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
Any Jewish boy (i.e. born to a Jewish mother--Jewishness descends matrilinealy-- can be a Bar-Mitzvah.
Bobby (via Regina) never 'closed the deal' by Circumcision nor becoming a Bar-Mitzvah to join the Jewish Nation.
Regina never kept the Jewish Sabbath, never celebrated the Jewish holidays.
The reign of terr under Sen. McCarthy
was roiling the country & Jews were being accused of being dangerous Communists or Communist traitors
(e.g., the execution of the Rosenbergs).
So then, Regina lived a non-Jewish life, brought up Bobby in that life,
so that he really--like his mother--never 'felt' Jewish.
He was only Jewish via matrilineal descent.
--A Jew by fiat, not choice.
The 'Sabbath' Bobby kept was that of a Christian sect, "Church of God" --which took a tithe of his WC prize money--& which he later rejected, & left forever.
Go to Kasparov's "My Great Predecessors" -- the volume discussing Fischer -- where he discussed the probable start of young Bobby's anger/hate of Jews being the bruhaha in 1961 when Fischer/Reshevsky started a match sponsored by Jacqueline Piatigorsky.
W/ the score tied at 5.5, Sammy wanted
a game scheduled (incredibly !!) on the Jewish Sabbath (he was an orthodox Jew) to be moved, which it was.
But, since Mrs. Piatigorsky wanted to attend a concert of her world famous cellist husband, gregor, she moved that playing date from the Jewish Sabbath to a secular time -- in the morning !!
Bobby was never a morning person, &
that Jewish Sabbath time was just fine\w/ him.
Mrs. P/ didn't budge.
Bobby sat in his hotel rm/ & forfeited
the game...& the match, because he cdnt get it to be continued w/ that forfeit scratched.
The pummeling he recd/ in the press
& the humiliation recd/ by awarding
Reshevsky as winner, imprinted him for life as being victimized by the Jews who organized that match, the orthodox Jew who claimed that match cd/ not continue by purposely entering other tournaments to make his win a fiat accompli, the many jounalists who were Jewish who trashed him in chess columns & out, & the Ultimate Jew
Enemy #1, Mrs. Piatigorsky, who happened to be a ROTSCHILD !!
That total betrayal & disgrace he saw as being caused by Jews changed his life forever.
Kasparov is correct to place the date & place of the very hurtful wound that festered & grew to full-blown anti-Semitism to that 1961 Match.
Bobby went to Iceland, as Kissinger suggested he do, as the freedom-loving
American to kick Russian Commie ass.
He went in the role of Patriot.
But when the U.S.A. declared him an unpatriotic felon for moving chess pieces in Spassky II -- the same very deep sense of betrayal & hurt overcame him: he was essentially told by the U.S.A. he cd/ never return to his country : he was persona non grata.
If he tried to return, he wd/ be heavily fined & jailed for years--in short, he was condemned to a long, lonely life of exile & disgrace
ineluctably
sliding into a descent
that crashed at the very bottom in paranoid madness.
Pax Tibi
Robert ("Bobby") Fischer XI
Yr/ Comet burned brighter
than any Star
Kibitzing
