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A while back these cats came to my apt. in LA and I went blah blah blah with their camera rolling. I have no recollection of what I said, or if it was intelligent in the slightest, but I guess I at least have made it into the trailer of their documentary, Young,...

It is just dang difficult to sit still and concentrate on reading 100 pages on the halakha related to death and mourning when it's a beautiful day out and I have only like 700,000 bajillion other things to do to get ready to leave this country in 3 weeks (!!!!!!!) and...

As with most of them, this is a pretty loose translation:And why do we mention the words of [the sages] Shammai and Hillel [even] when their opinions are not accepted [as part of the final legal ruling]? To teach the generations to come that a person should not be too...

I've got this pop song that they play all the friggin' time on the radio stuck in my head, and I don't know either the name of the artist or the song itself, nor can I remember any lyrics except this one line. It's a female singer, and the hook goes, "Ani ozevet...

Midrash Poskim Talmud Iyyun Talmud Bekieut Halakha HaMaaseh Hebrew Mikra Packing loads of books to ship off to America by boat Packing loads of stuff to take to America by plane Shipping stuff to America by mail Closing off all my heat, phone, etc. bills Saying...

For your reading pleasure, here's the midrash I just spent the morning writing about. Moral of the story: Spiritual practice does not include neglecting your family and/or those who need you. Tending to them is a spiritual practice in and of itself (note when our hero...

how is it that you show all these unbelievable, amazing movies so much of the time, but then whenever there's a date/time that's convenient for me, it's like, the documentary of a marganalized political refugee from Zmcei%vrvrnceistan crawling his way up the side of a...

Thanks to this post that I wrote in JewSchool this morning, there is now a halakhic discussion starting up in the comments section about how, exactly, one might kasher a lightsaber for Pesach. Is it a cli rishon? Is it considered a knife? What if it cuts something...

I know some of my friends and family folk read this blog sometimes, so--well, Friday, I got a second notice on a package waiting for me at the Post Office (you'll note here that I never actually received a first notice) and, when I got there, the new, shiny,...