After loading the meat dishwasher after Yom Tov, before starting to load the dairy one I found myself singing :Ad Kan, DIshwasher Alef, Alef, ad kan, dishwasher Aaaaleph."

The Torah was created by Man (with Divine Inspiration).

It was a tradition.

It changed.

There are 620 commandments.

613 are biblical.

7 are rabbinic,

They are G-d's plan ...

I was taking the train home last night, sort of dozing off and listening to a lecture about the Dead Sea Scrolls on my ipod. The rabbi teaching the class was reading the DSS version of Ashrei, which includes a verse that starts with the letter nun. In my mind I had a picture of Tom Hanks wearing a baseball uniform and a streimel and shouting " ( Read more... )

Well, after a promising start this kind of faded out. If anyone has suggestions for where to go from here I'd love to hear them ( Read more... )

Preliminary note for those who need it. We have just entered the Hebrew month of Adar. At the middle of this month is the festival of Purim. Purim is a happy festival featuring readings of sacred texts, drinking, partying, and masquerades. During the month of Adar we are supposed to increase our joy. One of the thing many Jews do is write and ( Read more... )

Meant only for Orthodox Jews - the questions are too narrow for non-Os ( Read more... )

On another group I'm involved with, I've been asked to please define my terms more often.
So I'm using google to find reasonable definitions of halacha and aggadah, and I come across this:

aggadah, agada, haggadah, halachah, halacha, halakhah, halakha by Snowy Owl (Pamela Greene)

If the Torah's law leaves you perplexed,

Then the learned halacha's ( Read more... )

So sethg suggests that Kal El of Krypton doesn't need a conversion brit, because he is already Jewish.
Leaving aside the whole Siegel/Schuster immigrant thing, what evidence do we have to support or refute the idea that Kryptonians were Jewish?
CON

1. How would they get there?
   
2. Lara (and most other Kryptoian women we see) never dressed tzniut
   
3. Ruled by ( Read more... )

mabfan has been writing about the new DC series that appears to be restoring the multiverse. I decided this was a good time to unveil my own creative extension to the DC Multiverse - a sheaf of worlds where the infant Kal-Kel of Kryton was rocketed to Earth and adopted by Yonaton and Miriam Kent - the worlds of Earth-Frum!Earth-Frum was originally ( Read more... )