It seems that everyone talking about George Zimmerman, no one spoke about it over shabbos, yet as soon as shabbos was over it was suddenly on everyone’s mind. Today as I drove without any sound coming out of my stereo…
Tag: fast days
Have you ever done a Ta’anis Dibbur?
The other night, my facebook status read as follows: May actually do a Ta’anis Dibbur this year because shul for me is one long running commentary on how much this sucks. Of course, someone had to get offended and claim…
But I don’t relate to Tisha B’av
I’ve heard the complaints dozens of times and have made them myself, but for some reason Tisha B’av is the one day in the Jewish tradition that gets the most complaints in the department of “I can’t relate to this…
A Modern Eicha for our times
Guest post by Andonymous Hope you like the attached content! I call it “modern day Eichah,” since we obviously have trouble relating to the one we read every year. Feel free to post the audio and the text files on…
Most Illicit thoughts on Yom Kippur
I always say that during musaf of Yom Kippur is when the dirtiest most whacked out thoughts come into my head. All the lady “experiences” of the past year shuffle through as if they were taunting me and all of…
Tisha B’Av pickup lines
I would love to see if any of you have ideas for this one, Jewish pickup lines are usually pretty easy to come up with. On succos you have lulav, on Rosh Hashanah you have the shofar and on Pesach…
Fast days aren’t about sleeping and watching movies
Studies show that when it comes to minor fast days like today, the majority of people do not know what they are about. In fact, most people merely focus on trying to pass the time by watching movies and sleeping.…
The best ways to mess with BT’s on Yom Kippur
I think I may have to do short lists for every holiday, because messing with BT’s rocks and makes the time go by quicker.Check out the original Messing with BT’s and the Rosh Hashana/YK/Succos edition Messing with Baal Teshuvas on…
The necessary business model re-org of Tisha B’Av: A personal lament
By David Sheril I guess I’ll to be the one with the cojones to publicly announce it: we are losing Tisha B’Av. I don’t mean the date on the calendar, nor am I referring to the factual history of this…
9 Tisha B’av blog posts from around the web
Writing comedy on Tisha B’av is like eating prok for kiddush on Yom Kippor, well maybe not that bad – but it just doesn’t feel write. Well maybe I should say posting, because with all this free time I have…
Rarely am I so captivated by a speech
I don’t typically like speeches, hate may be a strong word, but I do space out or read something else. Tonight at the end of Maariv I picked up the Rav Shlomo Freifeld biography and couldn’t put it down, I…
Finding the right shul on Tisha B’av
Finding the right shul to go for Tisha B’av can make your fast an easy and memorable one, while winding up at the wrong shul may arguably be the best way to remember how much we suffered at the hands…
Have you ever eaten on Yom Kippor?
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…
Fast or die!!!
Finding meaning on Tisha Baav
So the fast is winding down by now and I should have posted something earlier, I really didn’t feel like making this post funny of entertaining, tisha baav is not supposed to be entertaining, while yes it is abstract to…