tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81880427377969641202011-08-01T19:29:50.577-04:00Grumblings, Tirades, and Trials of a Simple Jew ..... בורטשעס, דרשות, און נסיונות פון א פשוט'ער אידA Pusheter Yidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12258839183918588228noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188042737796964120.post-85286787887161189162009-06-08T22:53:00.006-04:002009-06-08T23:09:52.737-04:00

Tonight, the Satmar Rabbi, Aaron Teitelbaum, marries off his granddaughter, Bluma Ashkenazi, in Kiryas Joel. Mazel Tov to you too. But not without incident, that is. One of the founding principles of the Chassidic movement is that regular folk marry off their children modestly according to fixed spending regulations, while rabbis throw extravagant weddings. There are several ways to uphold

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Chassidic Yiddish speakers often distort English words in ways other than the general public. This post started out as an honest attempt to compile a list of such words, but mysteriously turned satirical. I decided to post the fun entries too, but, on a sober note, I hereby appeal to my readers to help me add more words to the list.   Copper: Bronze. Example: Offerings for the Tabernacle

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This blog will cease to propagate for a while. Not because I don’t want to share my thoughts with you. Quite the contrary;  יותר ממה שהעגל רוצה לינוק הפרה רוצה להינק More than the calf wants to suck, the cow wants to feed. However, I want to take this blog in certain direction and on certain level, and I’m not ready yet. So unless I’ll feel strongly about a current issue, things will be quite

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Should I go on reading Classic Mythology or practice for the CompTia Network+ exam?Or read blogs?Dilemma

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I live, I observe, and I think. Those thought nuggets have to be developed by further reading, otherwise I will lose them.Here are some topics I should have read more about, but I wasted my time sleeping in and checking Facebook profiles. Maybe I’ll never get to it, or, as I hope, I’ll get to it at some point in the future. It’s either חבל על דאבדין or עוד חזון למועד. Matzo Biblical

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I remember the story of Bais Yaakov martyrdom from childhood. I think it was Yom-Tov Ehrlich who composed a lyric euphemistically describing a flock of white doves ascending to heaven, but I’m not sure. In 1943, ninety three Bais Yaakov teachers in Krakow Ghetto preferred to leave their bodies washed and pure rather than defiled and contaminated by the Vehrmacht—or so the story goes. A letter 

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Pesach was great, thanks. I spent the holiday, and a couple days before and after, in Tosh. We arrived onאור לארבעה עשר באורתא דתלת נגהי ארבע after a nice and pleasant drive. We schlepped along the whole house, as if we were going to wander the desert for forty years. The Tosh liquor / mikvah store is unreliable and overpriced, so I crammed in a case of merlot and chardonnay under the back seat

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Who is a hero? Jumping into the river to save a drowning child makes you a hero? Apparently so. What about landing on the river to save 150 men, women, and children? Well, that’s contested. Rabbi Avi Shafran thinks a heroic act is to display selflessness. It’s not enough to be exceptionally skilled, to be a role-model, or to save a city. Pilot Sully, the Moses in the Miracle on the Hudson, is

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בראשית טו   יג וַיֹּאמֶר לְאַבְרָם, יָדֹעַ תֵּדַע כִּי-גֵר יִהְיֶה זַרְעֲךָ בְּאֶרֶץ לֹא לָהֶם, וַעֲבָדוּם, וְעִנּוּ אֹתָם--אַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת, שָׁנָה.  יד וְגַם אֶת-הַגּוֹי אֲשֶׁר יַעֲבֹדוּ, דָּן אָנֹכִי; וְאַחֲרֵי-כֵן יֵצְאוּ, בִּרְכֻשׁ גָּדוֹל. שמות ג יט וַאֲנִי יָדַעְתִּי--כִּי לֹא-יִתֵּן אֶתְכֶם מֶלֶךְ מִצְרַיִם, לַהֲלֹךְ:  וְלֹא, בְּיָד חֲזָקָה.  כ וְשָׁלַחְתִּי אֶת-יָדִי, וְהִכֵּיתִי

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The Internet is flooded with scams, but don’t take it from me. Take it from a scammer himself. So-called Tony runs a so-called business in so-called Los Angeles. Tony or his crony skims Craig’s List for job hunters like me to throw bait. He spots a resume and shoots off an offer. Not a get-rich-soon or a too-good-to-be-true offer; just a quite-good-to-hopefully-be-true offer. But it stinks from

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Moses delivered a new Torah, but this time he did enter Israel. Thou shall not be a minister. A deputy minister thou shall be, and a minister thou shall not be. For these abominations did the Canaanites, the Amorites, and the Shas-ites, and because of these detestable practices thy LORD drove out those parties before you.

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Moirei v’Raboisei! Vaat an honor it is to write to all you losers who rambled into this prospectively miserable blog. Welcome! Please, take a seat, relax, and make yourself at home. I’m a Hassidic guy from Kiryas Joel, NY with too much time next to his keyboard. I’m not a professional, although I want to be. I’m not a scholar, although I should’ve been. I’m not the sociable dude to hang around

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