Ketubah texts come in three varieties. The most common variety up until just a few years ago was a tenth-generation photocopy from the Rabbi’s Manual, the text so blurry you could barely distinguish the letters, and GIANT DOTTED LINES whose giant dots rendered semi-invisible the names, scribbled in pencil by a rushed rabbi. It didn’t […]
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Or more, or less. I don’t really even know why I’m writing about this, except that I spent a little while working it out, and it seems a pity to deprive the internets of my vast wisdom (<= HUMOUR). So. There’s a category of fountain pen nib called “Broad.” I don’t know what that corresponds […]
You know when you have a nice soft pencil and a nice fat sketchpad and your fingers just sort of run away with you? Like that.
The soferet is taking a couple of days to make an enormous batch of Tefillin Barbies, with some American Girl size tefillin thrown in, just in case anyone’s interested. They’ll be on sale shortly at the soferet’s Etsy store, should you be interested. Not just yet though, I still have to go buy ribbon for […]
I’ve got a friend at shul. He’s a lovely guy, he’s got a lovely family, and he’s got leukemia. A bone marrow transplant could save his life. But so far, no-one on the bone marrow registers is a match for him. Registering is a matter of a cheek swab. Actual donating, should you be a […]
One of the few places in Torah where all the letters with crowns – שעטנז גץ – are within a few millimetres of each other. Pretty, isn’t it? This one’s in Devarim, 22:11-12:לא תלבש שעטנז צמר ופשתים יחדו: גדלים תעשה לך על ארבע כנפות כסותך אשר תכסה בה.
Mar Gavriel tells us: Most of the world is observing Yom Ha’Atzma’ut (Israel’s Independence Day, that is) on Tuesday, because Yom HaZikaron is the day before Yom Ha’Atzma’ut and when Yom HaZikaron is due to be on a Sunday we push the whole lot up a day – Yom HaZikaron on Monday and Yom Ha’Atzma’ut […]
Everyone knows that to find out what kind of person your date is, look at how they treat the waiter. That is to say, it is our unthinking actions which betray our deep-rooted assumptions, and I’m afraid I’ve got some pretty miserable assumptions to discuss here. You may have seen, of late, reference to the […]
I wrote this bit today. Very appropriate. I don’t plan it this way, you know. When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with […]
