Aaron Freeman and Sharon Rosenzweig, the funny yids behind the Comic Torah have this oddity of a video for us this week.
I don’t even know what to say about this.
It’s. Yeah. Well. Just watch it.
Entries from February 2008
February 28, 2008
An edible Mishkan
February 21, 2008
And you shall piss these words which I command you this day on your trees
This post is about m’zuzot. I have previously written about m’zuzot here.
Two things led to this post: One is the arrival in the mail of the three m’zuzot that my house ordered to place on the two entrances to the house and the kitchen doorway. The other was a discussion in my Human Evolution [...]
February 15, 2008
“A different look at Israel”
Shabat Shalom, everyone.
The blog Jewlicious points us this Shabat to the photography of Gilad Benari, an Israeli photographer.
Benari says of his photography, “I love Israel, and I find it a wonderful place. Israel suffers an Image of being a desert land, or simply a war zone, when showing it all over the world news. Being [...]
February 11, 2008
Where have all the shofarot gone?
Through a highly academic survey of this article on Wikipedia, I have determined that the shofar was once used for all of the following (the following list does not include the obvious military applications of shofarim a la Sefer Yehoshuah) :
-Causing folks to tremble, by blowing the shofar from the midst of a cloud of smoke [...]
February 10, 2008
“Our own little Mishkan” — or — “David gets all poetical”
On Shabat mornings, I take a half-hour walk from campus, through bustling downtown Madison, New Jersey, to the Madison Masonic Lodge. There, every week, an eccentric assortment of Jews, all of them multiple decades my senior, meet for study and prayer and, of course, food. We’re called Chavurat Lamdeinu. It is a remarkable group.
The Torah [...]
February 8, 2008
Praying with Lior
I haven’t seen this film, but I’ve met (and prayed with) the titular Lior. He was a sort of omnipresence at Limmud last month.
February 7, 2008
Notes from class
Two quick things today, both from classes.
From my Hebrew class: Did you know that in modern Hebrew techelet, the word use for the type of blue that on strand of a tzitzit is supposed to be, has come mean simply sky blue?
From Religions of Japan and China (totally unrelated to the usual topics of this [...]
February 6, 2008
My birthday and its constant state of flux
Much to the confusion of my parents (and everyone else I’ve spoken to about this), I decided last year to begin observing my birthday according to the Hebrew calendar. With the aid of the wonderful website HEBCAL.COM, I went back to the March 3 of 1989, converted it into the corresponding Hebrew date, and found [...]
