{"id":1503,"date":"2013-02-23T19:35:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T00:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2013-02-24T12:37:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T17:37:16","slug":"drbd-12c-in-which-substantial-food-is-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/drbd-12c-in-which-substantial-food-is-served\/","title":{"rendered":"DRBR 12c: In which substantial food is served"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"12-2\" width=\"274\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12-2.jpg 274w, https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12-2-164x300.jpg 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a>Back to the menu at this wedding feast. <\/p>\n<p>Menu item 4: \u05de\u05e8\u05e7, soup.<\/p>\n<p>Explanation 4: \u05ea\u05de\u05e8\u05d5\u05e7\u05d9 \u05d4\u05e0\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd. This one is a pun on Esther 2:12, \u05d5\u05e9\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d7\u05d3\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd \u05d1\u05d1\u05e9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd \u05d5\u05d1\u05ea\u05de\u05e8\u05d5\u05e7\u05d9 \u05d4\u05e0\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd &#8220;six months with scents and ointments for women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Menu item 5: \u05d3\u05d2 \u05d2\u05d3\u05d5\u05dc, a <i>big<\/i> fish. <\/p>\n<p>Explanation 5: Song of Songs 2 says \u05d5\u05d3\u05d2\u05dc\u05d5 \u05e2\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d0\u05d4\u05d1\u05d4, <i>his banner over me was love<\/i>. I guess it&#8217;s just a play on <i>dag<\/i>, <i>diglo<\/i>, and <i>gadol<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Menu items 6, 7, and 8 are meaty items, grouped together with the phrase from Genesis &#8220;And they shall be one flesh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Menu item 6: \u05d1\u05e9\u05e8, meat.<\/p>\n<p>Explanation 6: Genesis 2 says \u05d5\u05d9\u05d0\u05de\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d0\u05d3\u05dd \u05d6\u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05e4\u05e2\u05dd \u05e2\u05e6\u05dd \u05de\u05e2\u05e6\u05de\u05d9 \u05d5\u05d1\u05e9\u05e8 \u05de\u05d1\u05e9\u05e8, <i>the man said of the woman, bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Menu item 7: Baby birds<\/p>\n<p>Explanation 7: Psalm 128 says \u05d1\u05e0\u05d9\u05da \u05db\u05e9\u05ea\u05dc\u05d9 \u05d6\u05d9\u05ea\u05d9\u05dd, <i>your children shall be like olive shoots<\/i>. A touch macabre, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>Menu item 8: \u05dc\u05e9\u05d5\u05df \u05e6\u05dc\u05d5\u05d9, roast tongue. <\/p>\n<p>Explanation 8: Proverbs 31 says \u05d5\u05ea\u05d5\u05e8\u05ea \u05d7\u05e1\u05d3 \u05e2\u05dc \u05dc\u05e9\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4, <i>the Torah of lovingkindness is on her tongue<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Menu item 9: \u05d5\u05e9\u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd \u05e2\u05dc \u05db\u05dc\u05d5<\/p>\n<p>Explanation 9: The menu says: \u05d0\u05dd \u05e9\u05dc\u05e9 \u05d0\u05dc\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d0 \u05d9\u05e2\u05e9\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d4. These are two verses from Torah: <i>And officers (shalishim) over the whole<\/i>, explained by another verse which explains the three (<i>shalosh<\/i>) obligations of a husband to his wife. But what does <i>shalishim<\/i> mean in a food context? Potatoes and two veg? A family joke? Some sort of sauce? From context, it&#8217;s something that goes with meat dishes\u2026any ideas? <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, the drinks courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to the menu at this wedding feast. Menu item 4: \u05de\u05e8\u05e7, soup. Explanation 4: \u05ea\u05de\u05e8\u05d5\u05e7\u05d9 \u05d4\u05e0\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd. This one is a pun on Esther 2:12, \u05d5\u05e9\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d7\u05d3\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd \u05d1\u05d1\u05e9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd \u05d5\u05d1\u05ea\u05de\u05e8\u05d5\u05e7\u05d9 \u05d4\u05e0\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd &#8220;six months with scents and ointments for women.&#8221; Menu item 5: \u05d3\u05d2 \u05d2\u05d3\u05d5\u05dc, a big fish. Explanation 5: Song of Songs 2 says \u05d5\u05d3\u05d2\u05dc\u05d5 \u05e2\u05dc\u05d9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dispatches-from-the-rare-book-room","category-talmud-and-halakha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}