I've just posted a photo album of awesomeness over at hasoferet.com. It's got captions and so on, which don't cross-post very well. Please clicky over and go see! It is full of utter cuteness like this:
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Tuesday night, I was teaching at my scribe school, as is my wont on Tuesday nights.

Three-quarters of the room was speaking Yiddish.

Now, I posted recently about the surreal experience of being at a party of young, egal-type Jews where three-quarters of the room was speaking Yiddish. That was strange, yes. But having three-quarters of my scribe ( Read more... )

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Oy…

A messianic soferet (who thinks the plural of “soferet” is “soferetim”).

Okay, people. This is a good example of why you need to know who your scribe was. This person’s work will probably look exactly the same as a Jew’s work. Looking at the site, you might think it was completely okay - and then you see ( Read more... )

MarGavriel points us to a little Agnon story. A story appropriate for the season:
סיפר לי ר’ אהרן פריימן ז”ל משמו של ר’ אליהו פלנסר ז”ל. ר’ איציק אייכל וחבריו מצאו להם נכרית אחת שבישלה להם לתשעה באב. שבאותו הדור קשה היה ליהודי בברלין למצוא תבשיל בתשעה באב. היו קוראים לאותה נוכרית הגויה של תשעה באב. Aaron Freiman, of blessed memory, told me the ( Read more... )