Josh hiding in a little portico at the Hawa Mahal. 
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Jaali in the interior of Humayun's Tomb. It was late in the... 
Tommy Tso Alabaster Bear 
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Tabling Acropora Coral Bali - Acropora brueggemanni 
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 ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Monday, 26th of January 2009 at 05:15:36 PMSo it has been a long time since I wrote regularly on this thing. I have no singular excuse, but a combination of a few. I thought it was about time to just post a general update to what has been going on in the last 4-5 months. A quick list: I sold my first [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Monday, 28th of April 2008 at 12:25:34 AMA randomish note in tractate Nazir 34a: the koy. An animal that is speculated to be one of the following: off spring of a he-goat and a hind a distinct species, not a hybrid unknown if it is a domesticated animal (בהמה) or a wild animal (חיה). it is indeed kosher The implication in this Gemara revolves around a “bet” [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 15th of February 2008 at 02:24:18 PMNedarim 38a lauds Moses for his unique abilities. Offering some questions about why the messiah was not mentioned in Moses’ time and if there is a messiah what else beyond what Moses achieved is necessary for one to be the messiah. Was it the same moment of doubt that kept G-d’s most faithful servant from [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 29th of November 2007 at 12:37:50 AMAnother creepy disease from Talmudic times, from Ketubot 77b: What are its symptoms? His eyes tear, his nostrils run, he brings spittle from his mouth, and flies swarm around him. And what is its cure? Abaye said: Take the following ingredients: Pennyroyal [a kind of mint] and wormwood, the bark of a nut tree and [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 9th of November 2007 at 03:11:37 PMRabban Yochanan Ben Zakki wept and said, “Fortunate are you, O Israel. When they do the will of the omnipresent, no nation or tongue can rule over them, but when they do not do the will of the omnipresent, he delivers them to the hands of a lowly nation. And not into the hands of [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 6th of September 2007 at 10:52:50 PMWow! Yevamot was 3 volumes and 122 pages, I am guessing about 850 total pages. The Daf Yomi cycle is both sides of the Hebrew each day; meaning this mesechet took 121 days to complete. Why they all start with 2, I don’t know. The entire tractate was devoted to the complexities of yibum: when [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 22nd of August 2007 at 09:00:53 AMKares is defined in the back of one of my books as excision; early death imposed for certain classes of transgressions. It occurred to me in the shower this morning (I often do my best thinking there!) that one of the reasons for a lack of a hell like concept in Judaism is that in [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Sunday, 1st of July 2007 at 10:28:33 PMIt has been a while since I posted a Talmud tidbit. This is partly because I have been traveling and because work has been killing me. Not since a certain South African took over my company have I battled such usurpers. On top of all this, I am in the midst of Yevamot which is [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Monday, 19th of March 2007 at 06:29:33 PMFrom Wikipedia: Daf Yomi (Heb. דף יומי “page [of the] day” or “daily folio”) is a daily regimen undertaken to study the entire Talmud Bavli one daf (i.e. two actual pages), one day at a time, so that it can be completed in a cycle of seven and a half years. I started the cycle [...] ✡ 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 Thursday, 15th of February 2007 at 12:06:17 PMMost know some of these, but they were delineated at the end of the last Tractate. 17th of Tamuz – 5 bad things: Tablets were broken by Moses upon seeing the Golden Calf Tamid offering discontinued Jerusalem city wall was breached Roman military leader Apostumos burned the Torah in the temple He also placed and [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 12th of January 2007 at 04:44:59 PMIt has been a while since I found a Talmud oddity that was worth posting about. The last couple of tractates have been a bit dry. I am fully versed in the number of doves I am allowed to kill for a Yom Tov and what to do if when I decide they are for [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 27th of December 2006 at 09:02:49 PMIt was a super cool holiday! I got some wonderful gifts from my family and friends. A gift certificate to Artscroll that allowed me to get a new Tanach and some missing back volumes of the Bavli Talmud, a new bulb for my fishtank, a cool Lego car kit, some misc books and magazine, a [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Tuesday, 10th of October 2006 at 05:49:00 PMIn Talmudic times people would use sharp edged stones to remove fecal material from the rectal area after defecation. And in typical form, there is a discussion in the Talmud about the size and number of the stone one is allowed to carry on Shabbat. I am not a fan of paper, as my brother [...] ✡ Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 5th of October 2006 at 11:44:00 PMפרי עץ הדר – The fruit from the beautiful tree. The Talmud goes on and on, as it does, about how the term beautiful really REALLY means it. The fruit has to be yellow, or on its way, larger than an egg, small enough that you wont drop it, picked a certain way, blemish free, [...] |
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