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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Haiku of the Day
Wanna be honest?Then be honest with yourself.Leave me out of it.- The Blog Commenter Known As Cholent(2007)...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 8:15am -07:00T (17 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Old School Post
I never know what to say or what to write.I miss the good old days of blogging.  I was talking to someone about the old days.  I randomly went to July '05 and there it was post after post with 2 comments or 3 or 6 or 14.  Some had 0, but not most. Today i...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 10:15pm -07:00T (493 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Haiku of the Day
You know what's easy?Creating a bad haikuWrite one anyway- Brandon Koenig...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 8:15pm -07:00T (11 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: "HaShamayim mesaprim kevod kel uma'aseh yadav magid harakiah."
"Shamayim refers to the heavenly regions beyond earth's atmosphere, where the stars and planets orbit.Rakiah refers to the earth's atmosphere, where the clouds form and precipitation takes place.The verb lesaper means to recount something that occurred in...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 7:00pm -07:00T (100 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Nassa - The Word Is Love - The Jewish Week Edition
Like many people, one of the fondest memories of my childhood is being held in my father’s embrace while I stood under his tallis in shul as the kohanim blessed us. It is befitting that this blessing evokes such warmth as the essence of the blessing is ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 9:15pm -07:00T (715 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Haiku
Water sways aloneLonely boats drift upon itEach seeking balanceCompromising truthSounds like an oxymoronBut is that the truth?Pretending to rememberThat we never met beforeBut oh yes we didWe lose a great dealWhen we decide to let goOf what we hold dear...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 3:15pm -07:00T (40 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Numbers: A Love Story
Rashi explains the lists and numbers that Bamidbar starts with as reflective of G-d's love for the Jewish People. When you cherish something you repeatedly count it. Hashem counted us three times in one year as an expression of His love of the Jewish Peop...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 3:45am -07:00T (315 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Quote of the Day
"When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them. We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it." - C.S. Lewis...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 7:00am -07:00T (46 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Yom Yerushalayim Poem
TouristsOnce I sat on the steps by a gate at David's Tower I placed my two heavy baskets at my side. A group of tourists was standing around their guide and I became their target marker. "You see that man with the baskets? Just right of his head there's a...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 2:00pm -07:00T (112 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Yom Yerushalayim Poem II
From Open Closed OpenBy Yehuda AmichaAnd there are days here when everything is sails and more sails,even though there's no sea in Jerusalem, not even a river.Everything is sails: the flags, the prayer shawls, the black coats,the monks' robes, the kaftans...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 2:00pm -07:00T (98 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: On Pesukei Dezimrah: Four From The Artscroll Siddur
1. Pesukei DeZimrah, according to the AriZal, means The Verses of Pruning: clearing away our distractions before we recite Shemah and Shemoneh Esrei.2.. Baruch She'Amar has 87 words in it, corresponding to the golden - paz - nature of this holy prayer.3. ...
Dateline: 2013-05-05 9:30am -07:00T (189 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: What A Nice Haiku
"Really nice personPleasant and agreeable"Suspect compliments?...
Dateline: 2013-05-05 5:45am -07:00T (6 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Thursday AM to PM
Soon a student, a senior, is scheduled to come by for an appointment.  There's a strong chance he won't come. Tomorrow is the last day of classes for seniors, so I get it. We've been talking for some time about talking. I taught him in honors Chumash two ...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 9:00pm -07:00T (559 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Maybe Secretly We're All Terrific Whistlers Or Something
 Me Channeling Holden Since 1998 I've been visiting English classes in the school I teach in and reciting a chapter of Catcher in the Rye, in character, as Holden Caulfield. It started with Mr. Conant, who was an actor in his youth (Summer of 42) and migh...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 9:00pm -07:00T (262 words)
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NY's Funniest Rabbi: Haiku of the Day
Now you are a verbFacebook has changed who you areFriend, are you still there?...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 12:30pm -07:00T (14 words)
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