All you need is love

So there's this school across the valley from our campus, we think it's an art or music school, and instead of having a bell to signal the beginning and end of class, meals, and other events, they play a little bit of a song. The Beatles song "All You Need is Love." It sounds like a lovely, creative idea until you realize the implications. One section of one song played every hour or so all day long every day. Agony. I'm not even that much of a Beatles fan to begin with (sorry Kelly), so it's even worse.

On the bright side it has sparked quite a bit of fun on campus. This was posted by our student life coordinators on our JUC facebook page and anyone who loves Bible and ancient history will understand how much I love this:

"On the 9th of Av in 70 C.E., Titus and the Roman army marched upon Temple Mount and destroyed the Second Temple as a response to the fact that the temple priests had positioned a loudspeaker at the Place of Trumpeting and were blaring the 60’s B.C.E. popular rock song “Raq Tsarich Ahavah” every time the Jerusalemites needed to take a miqveh bath during the day. After burning the temple, they discovered that the priests, who lived in the Upper City, also had loudspeakers positioned in their homes on the eastern edge of the Western Hill, where they continued to play the same song at least 30 times a day, when they needed to take their miqveh baths. So, after besieging the Upper City for a month, Titus and his army invaded the Upper City on the 8th of Elul and buried the priest’s loudspeakers under more than a meter of destruction."

Love it!