Unpacking all the stuff in your new apartment requires frequent reading breaks.
Some to share:
The First Things website has been all redone and it is too easy to get lost in there for a delightful hour. Example: a recap of Leon Kass's recent speech for the National Endowment for the Humanities. I am wondering why I only see an account of his speech on this website, and not on any other religiously oriented blogs...especially since it seems he started out his speech with a discussion of the word mentsch.
Disturbingly, I suppose, some of the other bloggers are too busy with this sort of thing. Yikes.
This is terrifically un-PC, but 1) it's the Onion and 2) I did have to take a course on educational theory this past semester. And this sort of piece seems absolutely necessary in light of that.
It's Shavuot this weekend. That means, cheese time. I will offer some cheesy rabbinic student info for the holiday:
•Why do we eat cheese for this holiday? Beats me. I bet they really teach it in the fourth or fifth year. Not to little second yearlings, that's for sure. I did hear a rumor that it's either because a) Moses brought down the commandments on Shabbat so nobody could do the work of a ritual slaughter b) the people had just heard all these new kashrut laws but the kids wanted a snack now - no time to kasher everything - so they just sliced up some cheese and crackers instead.
•Why is it mostly cheesecake, cheese blintzes, etc - not just the aforementioned cheese and crackers? Rennet issues.
•Why ten commandments? Why not all of them? Why not seven?
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ReplyDeleteJDub? What is that? Some spinoff of the Easy Star Allstars? (google them)
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