Monday, August 09, 2010
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Prize-winning Chicken Sausage Jambalaya Recipe
For Shoftim - Prize-winning Chicken Sausage Jambalaya Recipe - Judged a winner in numerous contests
Challah for Parashat Shoftim - My Jewish Learning
Friday, August 06, 2010
Parsha Re'eh
Oy this portion gives me such tzuris! The Torah wants us to kill our wives for blasphemy? How about for salty borsht? This parsha also has our god commanding us to rejoice in her presence. Like we need a command for that? What kind of a Jew is gonna kill all his enemies, take their land, homes and clothes, establish a holy empire and then not party? The commandment should be not to party like Nadav and Abihu i.e. get so carried away that Ya as got to burn you to death from the inside out - Oy, that's gotta hurt!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Saturday, July 03, 2010
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Little Mishkan on the Prairie
My teacher and pal, Amichai Lau Lavie, and I performed a maven ritual
for the American Conference of Cantors. We interpreted a bit of
parshat Chukkat which instructs us to find, slaughter and burn a red
heifer. Most rabbis say the red heifer is just one of those odd,
unexplainable laws that we just have to accept., a classic "God only
knows why" statute. But during the discussion part of the ritual, one of the cantors, an
avuncular Heeb whose name ... OK, I never asked it, but anyway, as we
pondered the queer nature of the heifer, Uncle Cantor asked if anyone
had read "Little House On the Prairie." He went on to explain that
the Torah formula of cow plus an aromatic plant plus water and ash is
almost identical to "Little House's" recipe for soap. Making soap from
cow fat and ash is apparently a dirty job which requires a biiig clean
up of the soap maker, the instructions of which are also part of the
commanded biblical ritual.
I choose to think of this as a smoking gun, proof certain that one of
the most perplexing of our god's commandments was just something She
picked up on a library shelf.
for the American Conference of Cantors. We interpreted a bit of
parshat Chukkat which instructs us to find, slaughter and burn a red
heifer. Most rabbis say the red heifer is just one of those odd,
unexplainable laws that we just have to accept., a classic "God only
knows why" statute. But during the discussion part of the ritual, one of the cantors, an
avuncular Heeb whose name ... OK, I never asked it, but anyway, as we
pondered the queer nature of the heifer, Uncle Cantor asked if anyone
had read "Little House On the Prairie." He went on to explain that
the Torah formula of cow plus an aromatic plant plus water and ash is
almost identical to "Little House's" recipe for soap. Making soap from
cow fat and ash is apparently a dirty job which requires a biiig clean
up of the soap maker, the instructions of which are also part of the
commanded biblical ritual.
I choose to think of this as a smoking gun, proof certain that one of
the most perplexing of our god's commandments was just something She
picked up on a library shelf.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Sunday, October 05, 2008
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