Moed Katan 26a: R’Abba was chilling with some other sages and had to go to the bathroom. He and his homies were laying tefillin so he had to remove them first. He placed them down only to have an ostrich eat them! What a mess. R’Abba said that he is now obliged to rent his [...]
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 ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Monday, 9th of April 2007 at 08:44:21 PM ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Sunday, 1st of April 2007 at 11:56:50 AMI know this might be a complicated question – or the answer might be complicated – but what would Christians be today if there were no Jesus? Would they be more pagan than they are now? Would they be Jews, Muslims, or maybe Zoroastrians? ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 28th of March 2007 at 10:17:38 AMSometimes it is the simple things in life that come to mind when you are trying to be thankful. This morning I didn’t have any coffee because my alarm clock went off in the middle of the night. I think something happened to the battery. Wait, these 2 things are connected because I overslept when [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Monday, 26th of March 2007 at 11:48:16 PMAnother fun Dor Chadash event. Idan and I went to Symphony Space to see and hear them perform. Now I admit I have almost no cultural context to properly place these people within. However, I am guessing from Idan’s comments and from the reaction of the audience that they represent cultural or musical superstars in [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Saturday, 24th of March 2007 at 06:09:58 PMMatteo, my Ducati 749 Dark, and I were were out for a spin today. The gym, then the bookstore, and wrapping it up with a long way home ride along the waterfront. Earlier in the day I saw a while Lamborghini cruising on 6th Ave. What a wonderful and unique car. I don’t know the [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 21st of March 2007 at 09:26:25 PMIt would appear that the standard verse for my name – נתן is Proverbs 20:27 נר יהוה נשמת אדם חפש כל חדרי בטן A man’s soul is the lamp of Hashem, which searches the chambers of one’s innards A note in my Tanach says: By means of the soul, G-d searches man’s innermost thoughts and [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Tuesday, 20th of March 2007 at 10:24:55 PMThe award winning Israeli author Alef Bet Yehoshua spoke at a Dor Chadash event about his current shtick. You might recall his semi-ill-thought-out comments castigating American Jews about this time last year. Let me try to summarize, he started with 3 definitions… Jew – The traditional and halachic definition is simply the child of a [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 15th of March 2007 at 09:50:14 PMSome notes… death of JFK JR. – who cares death of John Lennon – who cares death of Princess Di – who cares eve of Iraq invasion, 1 & 2 – scary, we are a f’ed up war mongering nation shots of 9/11 – do not need to see them, ever, please stop showing them [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 14th of March 2007 at 04:42:24 PMNotice I havent posted or done anything in a while? Well it is because suddenly something stopped working on my blog. I fixed it. The issue was with incompatibilities with a minor update in WordPress. Not everything is back to normal with the remaining things being mostly layout related. ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 7th of March 2007 at 03:03:36 PMListening to the verdict made me laugh, G-d Bless America, please we need every blessing we can get. Libby obstructed justice, committed perjury and made false statements when he told FBI agents and the grand jury investigating the leak that he had possessed no official knowledge I appears that Libby is the fall guy for [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 7th of March 2007 at 07:27:46 AMWhat is a Shas you ask? Well it is a Hebrew abbreviation of shishah sedarim, the “six orders” of the Mishnah. Still confused: I bought the 73 volumes on the Schottenstein Edition of The Talmud. It arrived in 6 boxes. Only one is open – the current daf yomi tractate – the others I am [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Tuesday, 6th of March 2007 at 11:10:13 AMPuff is the most magical dragon there ever was. Is the world so lost and cold there is no room for magical dragons like him anymore? I certainly hope not! I forgot my love of this cartoon, which is probably 100% responsible for my love of dragons today. No, not in some [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 2nd of March 2007 at 09:27:43 PMI was talking home from synagogue tonight and as I crossed the street one of the eccentric Latino bicycle men who seem to be everywhere in NJ – if you live in NJ you know what I am talking about, they have these tricked out bikes with radios, flags, lights, horns, mirrors, and crazy pain [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Monday, 26th of February 2007 at 03:59:51 PMOver the weekend I was channel surfing down from Discovery looking for one of the PBS channels and crossed Fox News. When I did so, I stopped to read the banner at the bottom of the screen. Something there caught my eye. I really forget what it was. But I started to listen to the [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 23rd of February 2007 at 11:17:41 AMWelly, welly, welly, it would appear that the centerpiece of one the worlds great faiths is a fraud. Are we shocked? No. What, pray tell, might force the doctrine of infallibility and the fundamentalist evangelical movement into a seizure? The discovery of Jesus’ tomb, complete with bones of his family. Yes, Jesus was a man [...] |
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