I don’t normally do posts on folks who pass away unless they were as cool looking as Rav Ovadia Yosef. He was the Sephardic gadol hador and we mostly know him as that Arabic imam look alike who wore sunglasses,…
Tag: death
Ramblings about death and appreciation
Even as I mounted my bike and rode up the switchbacks through towering redwoods, I couldn’t relax. It was too close to shabbos to relax, sure I was happy to finally be away from people, the city and any distractions…
Chesed Week: Kids of Courage
Dying sucks, it’s one of those things I hate to be reminded of and quite frankly like most people I like to think of myself as immortal, but being a kid who knows you’re gonna die soon sucks even more…
In memory of Ilan Toakyer
I didn’t know Ilan Tokayer very well, but nevertheless I was taken aback when I heard that he passed away in a car accident last week. Several months ago I had a itching to check out the Jewish community of…
Two Scenarios in Which I Meet God (After 120 Years)
Children, children! Yom Kippur is coming and we all owe the Oibeshter a little something. Maybe you spoke loshon hara, chas v’sholom, maybe you brushed your teeth too hard on Shabbos and caused yourself to bleed, or maybe you had…
Picking up chicks at Yizkor
I never thought about it much before, but it seems that the best time to hit on girls at shul is at Yizkor, their parents are usually inside and you can have pick up lines like – “both my parents…
Why do people care how he died?
We all learned about the death of our friend Ronen Levi Yitzchak Segal last week, what I can’t understand is why I keep getting emails and facebook messages asking me how he died?
Couple in Israel places favorite recipe on their tombstone!!!
Hat tip to Devory Litvin who sent this Cooking Blog Story to me over Facebook, Jacob and Mina Toper have a recipe for Jacobs famous yeast cake inscribed on their tombstone in Kibbutz Na’an in Israel. Jacob wanted to be…
First there was Only Simchas, then there was Only Yizkor
This is a paid advertisement: I remember a few years back, someone created a site similar to Only Simchas that was called Only Tzaras. Baically mocking Only Simchas by placing all sorts of bad events like broken engagements and yeshiva…