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Tag Archives: Sabbath
Very Rabbinic
I sent an Orthodox Jewish friend a link to my appearance on a Sabbath panel at Loma Linda University ten days ago. “You looked very rabbinic,” she said. “From the way you sat to the way you spoke, you seemed … Continue reading
Posted in Loma Linda, Personal, Rabbis
Tagged grasp, jewish friend, loma linda university, rabbi, Sabbath
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JConnectLA Friday Night
Workmen’s Circle. 6:20 p.m. I’m the second person to arrive. It’s my first Shabbat in over eight years without my black undertaker suit. Instead I’m wearing this striped ill-fitting number I got for $20 from the Jewish thrift store on … Continue reading
Posted in JConnect LA, Personal
Tagged Alcohol, bima, boss, daven, davening, floating in outer space, friday night, ground control, heart, jconnect, joyful noise, major tom to ground control, minyan, mizel, peculiar way, planet earth, prayers, Sabbath, second person, sermon, shabbat, shlomo carlebach, starman, stunning dress, thrift store, undertaker, workmen
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Israel Shahak
Anthony writes: Dear Mr Ford: Having recently recently your interesting article on Israel Shahak (and having been alerted to your work by E. Michael Jones) I am writing, on the offchance, to ask if you can help me with a … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Shahak
Tagged ambulance, authoritative compendium, dear mr, e michael jones, gentile, Israel Shahak, jew, jewish history, jewish religion, Jews, opponents, rabbinical authorities, Rabbis, recollection, Sabbath, sake, state of israel, tom segev, twaddle, validity
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Orthodox Jews In Strip Clubs
A friend challenges me: You should go to a few strip clubs and see how many frum married men you recognize. They say havdala (ceremony marking the end of the Sabbath and recognizing the separation of the holy and profane, … Continue reading
Posted in Sex
Tagged cootch, distinctions, gentiles, hook ups, jewish men, la cienega, married men, orthodox jews, Sabbath, shabbos, spice, strip club, strip clubs, ups
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First Chupa, Then Shtuppa
From my live cam chat: RussianDragon: I MISSED YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOO YourMoralLeader: I wanna know what love is YourMoralLeader: I wanna go where love is RussianDragon: hug a horse YourMoralLeader: I need someone to show me Emma: I’ll show you Mr … Continue reading
Ignorant In Yeshiva
Marc B. Shapiro writes: This phenomenon, of great scholars not being aware of things that most people reading the Seforim blog learned years ago, should not surprise us. The traditional yeshiva curriculum is very narrow, and you can spend your … Continue reading
Posted in Marc B. Shapiro, Yeshiva
Tagged agudas, ahad, boro park, bumble bee, bumble bee tuna, chabad house, commercials, horizons, jewish knowledge, Jews, knowledge comes from, Marc B. Shapiro, pardes, phenomenon, popular songs, rsquo, rutgers, Sabbath, seforim, upbringing
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The Third Temple: Israel’s Missing Link
Chaim Chlorfene writes: In the introduction to his book Ohr Hamikdash (Light of the Temple), Rabbi Moshe Luria, explains that the Torah, the Sabbath, and the Holy Temple are respectively the essence of Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge (Chachmah, Binah, and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
Tagged 100 generations, biblical sense, binah, communal life, creative activities, daily basis, government culture, holy temple, husband and wife, luria, mishkan, missing link, mount sinai, nature of knowledge, rabbi moshe, Sabbath, temple israel, third temple, Torah, wife eve
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Performance Anxiety
If you’re being intimate with someone who’s had a lot of partners, it’s common to have performance anxiety. How will you rate with all those who’ve come before you and in all likelihood will come after you? I have severe … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged hebrew, jewish holidays, Judaism, kiddish, likelihood, performance anxiety, Sabbath, wine
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Come Home
D. emails: “Greeting Happy Sabbath, I don’t know you, never heard of you until today while doing research on the internet. I was looking up info regarding the SDA church and what happened in the 70’s and 80’s. The name … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist
Tagged 3rd generation, desmond ford, doing research, ford, God, hypocrites, jesus, pastors, preacher, remnant church, rsquo, Sabbath, sda church
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Stolen Cocoa Krispies Taste Sweeter
My Video Blog As I was leaving LimmudLA last month, I was given three boxes of food to take to SOVA to feed the homeless. Figuring that I was only a canceled credit card away from being homeless, I appropriated … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged bad news, cocoa krispies, credit card, crowne plaza, day of redemption, full cry, fundraiser, gangbangers, granola, Homeless, homeless bums, hovel, Israel, jewish expression, jewish singles events, mistaken notion, paypal donations, Purim, rabbi boteach, rabbi shmuley boteach, rejection, rodney dangerfield, Sabbath, saturday morning, shabbat, shabbat dinner, shabbaton, shacharit, shul, three boxes, time today, tiny muscles, town hosts, tzitzit
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