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Monthly Archives: September 2009
She Purrs
She called Friday at 8:08 pm. He couldn’t pick up the phone because it was the Sabbath, but it was their pre-arranged signal for him to come out to get her. He wouldn’t get to listen to her message until … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged deceptions, gloss, hovel, orthodox shuls, shabbos, yoga mat
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‘Mazal Tov!’
"Mazal tov!" said my friend as he sat beside me at Shalosh Sheudos. Towards the end of the Yedid Nefesh, he put his arm around me and we swayed to the music. "Have you read the words?" he said. "The … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged friday night, mazal tov, quot, translation, yedid nefesh
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Yisroel Pensack: Northern California Mohel Who Cannot Speak Issues Yom Kippur Message
Rabbi Chanan Feld, longtime San Francisco Bay Area mohel and a Torah teacher based at Beit Midrash Ohr HaChaim in Berkeley, has been seriously ill with oral cancer. According to an email I just received from the Beit Midrash, "Though he … Continue reading
Posted in Mohel, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged Beit Midrash Ohr HaChaim, Berkeley, R. Chanan Feld, yom kippur
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‘They Were In Danger Of Becoming Inseparable’
That’s a great line from one of John Updike’s final stories. I know what it is like to feel close to someone, to not want to live without them, and simultaneously feeling an urge to destroy it all so one … Continue reading
Posted in David Deida, Personal
Tagged David Deida, expression of love, inseperable, john updike, pg, urge
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Whitewashing History
Friar Yid writes on Hirhurim: How can we claim to have an intellectual tradition that values knowledge if we deliberately lie about its history to advance propaganda? Doesn’t this show a tremendous lack of faith in Judaism’s intellectual merits on … Continue reading
Posted in Adultery, Orthodoxy
Tagged false history, intellectual tradition, jewish heroes, public memory, role models, value truth, yid
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