So originally this was going to be a post, but I just decided to make video out of it instead. As always you can check out all of my videos at My Youtube Page
Do you speak Davanese?
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Dude, you gotta change your emoticon at the top of your blog, its lowering the quality of your whoel website. Its making it a lot more low brow.
Brilliant. Only two faults
1. No one “speaks” Davanese, since Davanese is an inarticulate language
I’d say most of us *grunt* Davanese. It’s like Frum Neanderthal, maybe.
2. You left out a major part of the Davanese vocabulary! Where’s the tsch that you get by dropping your tongue quickly from the roof of your mouth?
“Hey, could you pass me that – ” “Nu!”
“Yeah, I know, but all I want is -” *tsch* “NUU!!
And yes, those drey-around Friday nights are horrible. Shalom Aleichem, Eshes Chayil, et al, as a prelude to Kiddush were never part of the Western Sephardi tradition, so our family doesn’t mess around. Dad’s home from shul, gather around the table and start with “Yom Hashishi”!
I hope U have a wonderful kiddush today. I am off to shul now
This was good – but not as good as your Shidduch crisis video! (the only other one i’ve seen. so far.) I have some blogging to catch up on!
Yeh some sphardim hock around with all these extra pre-kiddush piyutim- always annoying, but never as bad as chatting after kiddush and waiting around for the folks conversing while others are sitting at the table and waiting for them to wash.
that was good hesh
I actually had a “crazy friend” who was really bothered by these Nuu people. It wasn’t so much the Nuu, it was the way they davened. They usually daven so loud and obnoxious which disturbed his davening. So he’d go over and say “Look, G-d may not be visible, but he definitely doesn’t have a hearing problem. Can you kindly shut the hell up?.” The response was always a loud Nuu with a siddur being shaken like a lulav. Then they proceeded to move to the next table and continue doing the same thing.
We beatbox and occasionally make musical use of the cutlery while waiting for others to wash.