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Obama’s Cigarettes & Prague’s Low(y)s - [Kafka]

May 31, 2008 By: yiush Category: asides, shabbos, trip reports 6 Comments →

Shabbos thoughts

Michelle Obama noted that when he smoked, and apparently when he slipped, his cigarette of choice was Marlboro.

Now, this will have an impact on how some folks may vote, and since it will, the question arises: lights menthols or reds?

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Kafka's mother's name was Julia Lowy from a Czech village east of Prague. Any relation to the Maharal of Prague (Rabbi Yehudoh Low)?

Was Kafka the Golem's creator's ainikl?

Interesting video

May 30, 2008 By: mohammedk Category: Uncategorized 1 Comment →

Here

A Chabadsker Told Me…

May 30, 2008 By: yiush Category: comparative religion 8 Comments →

That their Rebbe did not utter the messianic declarations found in his Sichos of the last years and that they were added by the then editors.

Is this true?

crisis in frum community

May 30, 2008 By: shitalphin Category: Ruckus, health No Comments →

due to the rising rate of obesity bringing people to their final resting place with dignity is getting ever harder. not since rav hutner was niftar has it been this hard to find people to do taharos and carry the aron. benny g. was quoted as saying he knew he had to quit taharos when he opened the niftar's mouth and screamed "yonah, you in there?". although the rising rates of hernias by a levaya has skyrocketed amongst men it's the women that have suffered the greatest number of defections. chani s. said "it's like making peysach every night of the year".  although winches and  hydraulic tahara tables have been promised by the various chevra kadishas  a lot of the women  are just fed up  krassie f.  said "I understand letting yourself go once you have children but there's a limit."

Tribe Discovered in Amazon; First Glimpse Ever

May 30, 2008 By: yiush Category: politricks, scary shit 4 Comments →

These photographs were taken from an aircraft near the border of Brazil and Peru. The bows and arrows are aimed at the aircraft. Hat tip to Yahoo! News. Photos from Survival International.

http://www.survival-international.org/lib/img/gallery/User_Galleries/news/original/BRAZ-UNC-GM-05.jpg

http://www.survival-international.org/lib/img/gallery/User_Galleries/news/original/BRAZ-UNC-GM-08.jpg

A Depressing Psalm

May 29, 2008 By: yiush Category: Poetry, torah 8 Comments →

Psalms Chapter 39

א  לַמְנַצֵּחַ לידיתון (לִידוּתוּן),    מִזְמוֹר לְדָוִד. 1 For the Leader, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
ב  אָמַרְתִּי–    אֶשְׁמְרָה דְרָכַי, מֵחֲטוֹא בִלְשׁוֹנִי:
אֶשְׁמְרָה לְפִי מַחְסוֹם–    בְּעֹד רָשָׁע לְנֶגְדִּי.
2 I said: 'I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; {N}
I will keep a curb upon my mouth, while the wicked is before me.'
ג  נֶאֱלַמְתִּי דוּמִיָּה, הֶחֱשֵׁיתִי מִטּוֹב;    וּכְאֵבִי נֶעְכָּר. 3 I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, had no comfort; and my pain was held in check.
ד  חַם-לִבִּי, בְּקִרְבִּי–בַּהֲגִיגִי תִבְעַר-אֵשׁ;    דִּבַּרְתִּי, בִּלְשׁוֹנִי. 4 My heart waxed hot within me; while I was musing, the fire kindled; then spoke I with my tongue:
ה  הוֹדִיעֵנִי יְהוָה, קִצִּי–וּמִדַּת יָמַי מַה-הִיא;    אֵדְעָה, מֶה-חָדֵל אָנִי. 5 'LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; let me know how short-lived I am.
ו  הִנֵּה טְפָחוֹת, נָתַתָּה יָמַי–    וְחֶלְדִּי כְאַיִן נֶגְדֶּךָ;
אַךְ כָּל-הֶבֶל כָּל-אָדָם,    נִצָּב סֶלָה.
6 Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine age is as nothing before Thee; {N}
surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah
ז  אַךְ-בְּצֶלֶם, יִתְהַלֶּךְ-אִישׁ–    אַךְ-הֶבֶל יֶהֱמָיוּן;
יִצְבֹּר,    וְלֹא-יֵדַע מִי-אֹסְפָם.
7 Surely man walketh as a mere semblance; surely for vanity they are in turmoil; {N}
he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
ח  וְעַתָּה מַה-קִּוִּיתִי אֲדֹנָי–    תּוֹחַלְתִּי, לְךָ הִיא. 8 And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope, it is in Thee.
ט  מִכָּל-פְּשָׁעַי הַצִּילֵנִי;    חֶרְפַּת נָבָל, אַל-תְּשִׂימֵנִי. 9 Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the base.
י  נֶאֱלַמְתִּי, לֹא אֶפְתַּח-פִּי:    כִּי אַתָּה עָשִׂיתָ. 10 I am dumb, I open not my mouth; because Thou hast done it.
יא  הָסֵר מֵעָלַי נִגְעֶךָ;    מִתִּגְרַת יָדְךָ, אֲנִי כָלִיתִי. 11 Remove Thy stroke from off me; I am consumed by the blow of Thy hand.
יב  בְּתוֹכָחוֹת עַל-עָו‍ֹן, יִסַּרְתָּ אִישׁ–    וַתֶּמֶס כָּעָשׁ חֲמוּדוֹ;
אַךְ הֶבֶל כָּל-אָדָם    סֶלָה.
12 With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; {N}
surely every man is vanity. Selah
יג  שִׁמְעָה תְפִלָּתִי יְהוָה,    וְשַׁוְעָתִי הַאֲזִינָה–
אֶל-דִּמְעָתִי,    אַל-תֶּחֱרַשׁ:
כִּי גֵר אָנֹכִי עִמָּךְ;    תּוֹשָׁב, כְּכָל-אֲבוֹתָי.
13 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; {N}
keep not silence at my tears; {N}
for I am a stranger with Thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
יד  הָשַׁע מִמֶּנִּי וְאַבְלִיגָה–    בְּטֶרֶם אֵלֵךְ וְאֵינֶנִּי. 14 Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and be no more.' {P}

For Shitalphin…

May 29, 2008 By: atgate231 Category: Madness, comparative religion, freudian, goyim get drunk and kill each other 2 Comments →

Schopenhauer on Christianity:

“A faith that had a man being tortured on a cross as its central emblem couldn't be entirely misleading in its overall take on life.”

-NYTimes paraphrase - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/magazine/09wwln-lede-t.html?pagewanted=print

-atgate231

Der Rebbe hut geheisen fiefen

May 29, 2008 By: mohammedk Category: Uncategorized 1 Comment →

zey huben oich gefifen

the words and their perspective are interesting IMHO

The Death of 7fatcow?

May 28, 2008 By: 7fatcow Category: Madness, Music, torah, trip reports 5 Comments →

Am Achad: Kumzitz at the Townhouse (Lag B'omer)

Shachar On Cows

May 28, 2008 By: 7fatcow Category: asides 10 Comments →

Shachar X:

This site needs more writers and more posts!