No I didn’t break my fast, but as any person who can’t concentrate on davening will tell you, you think about the most insane things during davening. I also needed a catchy headline to take advantage of the constantly updated blogger blogrolls which feature the title of the post from the newest bloggers to update.
Have you ever eaten on Yom Kippor?
October 9th, 2008 · 49 Comments
Tags: · Yom Kippor · davening
The problem with using chickens for kapparos
October 8th, 2008 · 10 Comments
Taken from the “chumra of the week” Facebook club. Not sure who exactly wrote it- but its amazing
I don’t hold by kaparot/ss with chickens
COW (chumra of the week) members have truly been blessed with an opportunity to differentiate their yirat/ss shamayim/m from the rest of Am Yisrael/oel in regard to their practice of kapparot/ss.
There is [...]
Tags: Frum Satire · Guest Writer · Just Funny · Yom Kippor
Ever do teshuvah on the plane?
October 6th, 2008 · 32 Comments
I used to fly back forth from yeshiva quite a bit, flights were cheaper then the train and every time we had an out shabbos quite a few of us yeshiva guys- sometimes filling more then half of the small planes that flew between Rochester and New York.
Tags: Rosh Hashanah · Yom Kippor · davening · shul
We only bang three times a year…
October 2nd, 2008 · 27 Comments
So I am sitting at my hosts on the west side of Denver, Colorado and we get into this discussion on why we eat creplachs on erev Yom Kippr. So the discussion is going at a regular yeshivish pace until the host drops the B-bomb. In normal situations I may have been able to contain [...]
Tags: Just Funny
Should people have to pay for high holiday services?
September 28th, 2008 · 57 Comments
I will start this post with a story:
Two friends of mine spent Rosh Hashanah last year by this girls house in Long Island. These guys aren’t really the shul going type, so they got up at 12 and went to shul for about an hour. About two weeks later, the girls parents got a bill [...]
Tags: Jewish · Rosh Hashanah · shul · video
I can never find my place in Slichos!!!
September 21st, 2008 · 24 Comments
You know how I can tell the high holiday season is upon us?
Besides for the fact that I just clopped my chest a million times asking forgiveness for sins that I don’t even know the meaning to. What the heck is sinning scornfully anyway? No its not really that, clopping your chest is a daily [...]
Tags: Yom Kippor · fast days · rosh hashana · shul · sukkos
When BT’s aren’t quite there yet: Ohr Someyach Memories
September 4th, 2008 · 17 Comments
For those of you fortunate to witness my comedy show in Bet Shemesh on the second night of the frum satire Israel comedy tour you would have witnessed the following post in all of its madness. For everyone else you can read about it now.
In 2002 I was enrolled in the introductory program at [...]
Tags: BT · Israel · Yeshiva memories · fast days



