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Loren
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:47 am Post subject: Happy Chanukah |
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I had intended to do an iSight candle lighting during the Chanukah show this year, but because of the timing of it all, there is no show during Chanukah...
It's too late to submit this as a Web Site of the week, so I'll just post it. (But that's why I am posting it to Sly's World...)
Happy Chanukah
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Digital Dawg
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:47 am Post subject: Re: Happy Chanukah |
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| Loren wrote: | | I had intended to do an iSight candle lighting during the Chanukah show this year, but because of the timing of it all, there is no show during Chanukah... |
Happy Chanukah d00d!
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Loren is Jewish? When did this happen? |
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Loren
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| NeoLuddite wrote: | | Loren is Jewish? When did this happen? |
OY VEY!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:00 am Post subject: |
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| NeoLuddite wrote: | | Loren is Jewish? When did this happen? |
Right after the Bris. |
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Digital Dawg
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:11 am Post subject: |
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| Shawn wrote: | | NeoLuddite wrote: | | Loren is Jewish? When did this happen? |
Right after the Bris. |
Is it true that "bar mitzvah" is ancient Hebrew for "Okay, I know, it hurt like hell, but you're a man now, so you've gotta stop with the screaming..."?
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For those who may be, um,
scratching their head at what
this is all about: bris |
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Loren
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:34 am Post subject: |
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| Digital Dawg wrote: | | Is it true that "bar mitzvah" is ancient Hebrew for "Okay, I know, it hurt like hell, but you're a man now, so you've gotta stop with the screaming..."? |
Just to avoid any confusion for people my might take this thread seriously...
Bris - 8 Days Old
Bar Mitzvah - 13 years later.
By that point, we have pretty much stopped with the screaming.
Loren
P.S. It means "Son of the commandment" For women, it's Bat Mitzvah, meaning daughter...
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Loren wrote: | Bris - 8 Days Old
Bar Mitzvah - 13 years later.
By that point, we have pretty much stopped with the screaming. |
Beats me by about five years...
DD
I have a dream. A dream to write a screenplay
about an insane Mohel; "Silence of the Hams".
"You have a bagel with schmear for breakfast,
and sometimes you add onion, but not today.
You had their best lox, though, didn't you?"
Shoot. Now I'm hungry...
Hannibal Lechner. Too bad Marty Feldman is dead.
Maybe Mel Brooks... |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| Loren wrote: | Bris - 8 Days Old
Bar Mitzvah - 13 years later.
By that point, we have pretty much stopped with the screaming. |
In many ways, it's just beginning...
| Loren wrote: | | P.S. It means "Son of the commandment" For women, it's Bat Mitzvah, meaning daughter... |
I was always under the impression that the Bat Mitzvah was a response to equality in these modern times. I had never heard of one being celebrated amongst my Jewish friends until I was in college. |
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NeoLuddite
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| Digital Dawg wrote: |
For those who may be, um,
scratching their head at what
this is all about: bris |
You mean it's not ancient Sumatran for, "You're going to do what to his what now?"
I guess Sheryl Crow is right when she sings "The first cut is the deepest..." |
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Nothing escapes the vast reach of the intraweb and its handmaiden Flash.
I have a little dreidel
I made it out of clay
And when it's dry and ready
Oh dreidel I shall play...
Flash your dreidel...
The source of the dreidel, the traditional spinner that is played with on Chanukah, is that at the time of the Syrian-Greek decrees against the Jews, one of the harshest decrees was prohibiting Jews to study the Holy Torah. Any Jew that was caught studying or teaching Torah was put to death. The Jews came up with a creative way of avoiding being caught. They prepared spinners that when the enemy soldiers inspected the homes of the Jews or the cells of the prisoners; they found them spinning their dreidels. While “playing” with their spinners they would discuss Torah topics. The soldiers didn’t catch on that they were actually engaged in Torah study.
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Loren
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| OddParity wrote: | | Loren wrote: | | P.S. It means "Son of the commandment" For women, it's Bat Mitzvah, meaning daughter... |
I was always under the impression that the Bat Mitzvah was a response to equality in these modern times. I had never heard of one being celebrated amongst my Jewish friends until I was in college. |
Yes. Judiasm, like most other things, wasn't hit by women's lib until recently. I think the first Bat Mitzvah was about 80 years ago.
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