I'd be happy to help you figure out hair aesthetics, though I joke that I have two basic hairstyles -- up and down.
If you wanted to put it all up in a bun-type thing, they make stuff that makes it fairly easy to do. Or, little barettes and/or clips could work. Channel your inner Larissa! She'd know all about such things ;-)
Happy to help with the cats! (Not a circus. One of my coworkers just posted a note saying "one of my dogs had 11 puppies; want one?". That's a circus. :-) )
For myself I favor "down" styles of hair, so I think I need something involving barettes or the like. I'll happily accept help with this -- thanks!
I recommend against a bun -- they have the distressing tendency to fall out at inconvenient times. I always liked the largish barette that keeps the hair back. If the ends continue to fall forward, braid or in some other way catch them in the barette (in a loop-type deal). Barettes have the advantage that you can remove them pretty quickly without doing much damage to the underlying hair style.
If someone points a gun at your head and tells you to eat the bacon cheeseburger, you do (and I assume you say a bracha?). IIRC, you do not say a b'racha in that case, or in any case involving either a forced or a condoned violation of halacha (the canonical example is a sick person or pregnant woman eating or drinking as medically required on Yom Kippur).
This only applies in private, by the way; in public, it would be considered (and, historically, was) a repudiation of HaShem (in effect, idolatry) and you're therefore required to refuse. I think wearing a ponytail on the bimah would seem too casual and unprofessional, so I need to figure out something more decorative. I haven't got a hair-aesthetics gene, so this could be interesting. Braids? (I haven't much of a hair-aesthetics gene either, as you've probably noticed. :)
IIRC, you do not say a b'racha in that case, or in any case involving either a forced or a condoned violation of halacha (the canonical example is a sick person or pregnant woman eating or drinking as medically required on Yom Kippur).
I think you have the principle correct but the example incorrect. Someone with a medical exemption on Y"K is not violating halacha (halacha itself has created the exemption) and therefore does make brachot. In fact, one of the reasons we chose the wedding bencher we did is that it includes the ya'aleh v'yavo for Y"K.
And, gufa (i..e, back to the main subject), yiyasher kochachen to Monica! (FWIW, when I'm reading from a prepared text, I usually go with 28-point text leaded by an extra 50%; I find the leading more important than the font size. On the other hand, you can end up with text that's too large; our shul just got a new haftarah book and the text is so large that some of the longer words don't fit in my field of vision. It's very embarassing so start reading one word and discover halfway through
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In fact, one of the reasons we chose the wedding bencher we did is that it includes the ya'aleh v'yavo for Y"K.
I never would have thought to look for that. Thanks for the interesting discussion.
And, gufa (i..e, back to the main subject), yiyasher kochachen to Monica!
Thank you!
Thanks for the tip on leading. I hadn't thought about that. I do worry about text getting too large; for people's names (for the aliyot) on Saturday I used 36-point, and Hebrew names tended to occupy two lines (we include mothers -- e.g. Ploni ben Avraham v'Rachel). That would definitely have been overkill for the d'var torah (or translations), but it's worth exploring things between 24 (worked) and that. I'll see what 28 looks like.
For haftarah, my rabbi reads straight from a regular chumash (more power to him; I couldn't do that) and the b'nei mitzvah get individual print-outs, I think from Trope Trainer, that seem to be of a decent size. We don't have a dedicated book. (Well, we probably have several, but we don't use one that I've ever seen
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IIRC, you do not say a b'racha in that case, or in any case involving either a forced or a condoned violation of halacha (the canonical example is a sick person or pregnant woman eating or drinking as medically required on Yom Kippur).
Hmm... I have a bencher which has a little paragraph titled "(if required to eat on yom kippur) and then a blurb to say as an addition on Yom Kippur. I don't remember how traditional in general it is.
I think the difference between a D'var Torah and a sermon is usually a d'var torah is about tying the weekly torah portion into every day life, whether it be practical application of things, political comparision, etc. whereas a sermon is more like a Mussar speech - where you preach AT the people, you pick a mitzvah (or sin) and show how people today are or aren't doing it...
Rabbi Garfunkel had crazy long Gida Radner hair; she usually had it clipped in a large barrette at the nape of the neck - looks more professional than a higher ponytail with a rubber band, and it got the job done. :)
I do two barettes, up high and moderately far back, when I'm in a professional setting like leading classroom training. One big barrette at the back that only holds the hair above the ears might be another good option, since it preserves the "hair down" thing you prefer.
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If you wanted to put it all up in a bun-type thing, they make stuff that makes it fairly easy to do. Or, little barettes and/or clips could work. Channel your inner Larissa! She'd know all about such things ;-)
Thanks again for feeding the circus!
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For myself I favor "down" styles of hair, so I think I need something involving barettes or the like. I'll happily accept help with this -- thanks!
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IIRC, you do not say a b'racha in that case, or in any case involving either a forced or a condoned violation of halacha (the canonical example is a sick person or pregnant woman eating or drinking as medically required on Yom Kippur).
This only applies in private, by the way; in public, it would be considered (and, historically, was) a repudiation of HaShem (in effect, idolatry) and you're therefore required to refuse.
I think wearing a ponytail on the bimah would seem too casual and unprofessional, so I need to figure out something more decorative. I haven't got a hair-aesthetics gene, so this could be interesting.
Braids? (I haven't much of a hair-aesthetics gene either, as you've probably noticed. :)
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I think you have the principle correct but the example incorrect. Someone with a medical exemption on Y"K is not violating halacha (halacha itself has created the exemption) and therefore does make brachot. In fact, one of the reasons we chose the wedding bencher we did is that it includes the ya'aleh v'yavo for Y"K.
And, gufa (i..e, back to the main subject), yiyasher kochachen to Monica! (FWIW, when I'm reading from a prepared text, I usually go with 28-point text leaded by an extra 50%; I find the leading more important than the font size. On the other hand, you can end up with text that's too large; our shul just got a new haftarah book and the text is so large that some of the longer words don't fit in my field of vision. It's very embarassing so start reading one word and discover halfway through ( ... )
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I never would have thought to look for that. Thanks for the interesting discussion.
And, gufa (i..e, back to the main subject), yiyasher kochachen to Monica!
Thank you!
Thanks for the tip on leading. I hadn't thought about that. I do worry about text getting too large; for people's names (for the aliyot) on Saturday I used 36-point, and Hebrew names tended to occupy two lines (we include mothers -- e.g. Ploni ben Avraham v'Rachel). That would definitely have been overkill for the d'var torah (or translations), but it's worth exploring things between 24 (worked) and that. I'll see what 28 looks like.
For haftarah, my rabbi reads straight from a regular chumash (more power to him; I couldn't do that) and the b'nei mitzvah get individual print-outs, I think from Trope Trainer, that seem to be of a decent size. We don't have a dedicated book. (Well, we probably have several, but we don't use one that I've ever seen ( ... )
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Hmm... I have a bencher which has a little paragraph titled "(if required to eat on yom kippur) and then a blurb to say as an addition on Yom Kippur. I don't remember how traditional in general it is.
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Remind me at Pennsic to demonstrate.
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