A Rabbi, a Cowboy, and a Chicken Got On a Horse
Besides referencing the many jokes involving rabbis, this piece is also a reference to “Shlogn Kapores”: the tradition of symbolically transferring a person’s sins onto a chicken during Yom Kippur. After the artist saw a picture of a cowboy on a horse, twirling a rope, he imagined a rabbi sitting behind him, twirling a chicken — and thus this clever, tongue-in-cheek artwork was born.
As a Zionist publication created in the United States, Green Golem appreciates Aaron Koster’s ability to merge traditional Jewish imagery with classic American imagery.
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This piece for me is about the independence of the cowboy spirit and the notion of restraining motion that deviates from order. I have always admired the cowboy idea reflected in the U.S. culture because it is associated with the independence of spirit complemented by courage. It is a concept balked at in my current context and this piece is admirable to me more so because I can only view it from a remote distance. The injection of religious ideation within one frame of reference, reflected in this piece, has hit home in a way that only historically significant context can do. In our lifetime, not just in the lifetime of our ancestors.