Riddle number 2
This one is probably also pretty easy, but it should require a little more leg work at least. What tractate of the Mishna is this: U+24CA
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A Riddle
I’ve been enjoying the Kri and Ketiv games at Balashon, and also the pun quizzes at ADDeRabbi, so here’s one of my own. Which biblical book is this: ((ק))
Marvellous surprise
In my email inbox this morning: Dear Al Ha veDa A gift Crossword subscription has been purchased for you. Please visit http://www.guardian.co.uk/crossword to activate your subscription Regards Guardian Unlimited This clearly has some connection to the fact that next Monday is my birthday, and this is absolutely and totally the best birthday present I could […]
My new bumper sticker
I was walking home the other day when a car passed me with a bumper sticker like this: . He pulled in and parked ahead of me so I waited for him to get out and said politely צַפְרָא טָבָא, and told him that I liked the sticker, and where could I get one? He […]
Journalistic objectivity
From the International Herald Tribune (hat-tip: Lisa Goldman): Britain’s biggest journalists’ union, The National Union of Journalists, has criticized Israel’s “military adventures” and voted narrowly in favor of a boycott of Israeli goods…The timing of the ballot was particularly delicate since a BBC journalist, Alan Johnston, has been held for more than a month in […]
Overheard…
… in a drama mini-series on Israel’s commercial TV channel: What browser are you using? Why don’t you use Firefox? I can download it for you in a second. I can’t imagine hearing a reference like that on prime-time television even a year ago. I’m not sure exactly when Firefox became part of the mainstream, […]
Hey, man
Things I thought about during the Megilla reading this year, in no particular order. I’m not saying I thought of all this actually during the reading, some of it is expansions of the original ideas that are coming to me as I write it down I’m not sure if this counts as a meme. RenReb […]
Seen on a mailing list
We are often warned against over-generalization, and on mailing lists and web fora you can almost guarantee that any statement about “all” p or “the only” p, whether p is members of some ethnic group, documents in some language, or whatever, will provoke angry responses and obscure counter examples. I’ve been on both sides of […]
De trop
Ari Kinsberg saw a poster in Jerusalem with a picture of a bottle of Johnny Walker and the caption יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙, i.e. “Joshua” in Hebrew with cantillation. He says: I’m willing to bet that this is the only instance of [Hebrew with cantillation] in Israeli advertising. I wonder just how much he is willing to bet, […]
Got some of the t-shirts
Ah, memes. The staple of the blogger with nothing to say, or not enough time to say it. This is from Something Something via Slightly Mad. Things I’ve done are bold. Comments in italics. Bought everyone in the bar a drink Swam with wild dolphins Climbed a mountain Taken a Ferrari for a test drive […]
Challa meme
Danya posted about baking challa. In the interests of Jewish pluralism, here’s my recipe. These quantities make 5 medium-sized or 4 largish challot. 1 kg white flour 1 tbsp salt 3 or 4 threads of saffron 25 g yeast 1 tsp honey About 500 cc. lukewarm water 3 eggs, beaten sesame seeds and/or poppy seeds. […]
Targetting civilians
Updated with links to more pictures Here’s a picture of a road sign in Haifa after a Katyusha missile landed nearby. Photo credit: Lenny Maschkowski The text on the sign says “Slow — Children Crossing”. To see more pictures from Haifa by Lenny Maschkowski, go here or here, or the slideshows linked from the bottom […]
The One Book Meme
I don’t tag, but I like memes. I saw this one at Codex. One book that changed your life:We Have Reason To Believe by the late Rabbi Louis Jacobs. One book that you’ve read more than once:Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. One book that you’d want on a desert island: Midrash […]
סוף הדרך
One student at Ben Gurion University to another, discussing Nasrallah: هو بيحكي عريي חבל על הזמן Hat-tip: Kishkushim.
Unintentional Reminiscences I
Susan in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Peter, just because some man in a red coat gives you a sword it doesn’t make you a hero! Dennis in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. […]
תעלא דינורא
I was saying yesterday that it’s a pity that there’s no localisation of Firefox into Aramaic. I wasn’t very serious, because I didn’t think there would be many people who would use it, but it turns out there’s at least one potential client: Monica Bellucci. Monica … can speak Italian, French, English and Aramaic fluently. […]
Yossi Banai 1932-2006
In memory of Yossi Banai, who died today, here is one of his less well-known songs which I’ve always been attached to. It’s very minimal, not much more than a list, but it beautifully conveys some of the paradoxes of life in this country. For example, here’s a rough translation of the last verse: A […]
Asterix the Linguist
The year is 50 BC. All Gaul is occupied by the Romans. All? No! One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders… A lot of the charm of the Asterix series by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo comes from the way satirical projections of modern life (e.g. chariots on dual carriageways […]
Purim Torah
I used to have a large collection of Purim Torah that I had accumulated over the years, with things like Massechet Purim, Shulchan Aruch Even Shetiya, Haman’s Ethical Will, etc. etc., and I had the idea of publishing an anthology of this kind of literature, most of which is rather hard to find. I can’t […]
What is the last word of the Bible?
I was sitting at the computer the other day, and picking up with half an ear children’s television from the next room, when I heard the presenter ask a general knowledge question, “What is the last word of the Bible?”. This struck me as unfair. So, if I have any readers, please tell me what […]