A guest post l’kovod Purim by The (Yeshivishe) Shadow. This post originally appeared on his blog, “Fleeting Thoughts of the Shadow”. The scent of Purim is in the air! Then again, so is the scent of dead fish, raw meat, fruits, vegetables, and about forty thousand different flavors of halvah. That is because I’m traipsing [...]
“It’s too hard”, he complains plaintively. “He, G-d, will understand. My son, he is a Rabbi. In Brooklyn. He is Lubavitch. (Here, he serenades me with the first few bars of Yechi to prove it. Great. A chiloni taxi cab driver Meshichist. Just what my night needed). For him, it is easy. For me, not so [...]
At the Machane Yehudah shuk. One of the fifty or so nut (pitzuchim) stands.
Diras are great places. Similar to the precursor, dorm rooms, the dira is our home away from home. Really, though, they are so much more than a mere dorm room. Or even than home. Don’t get me wrong- most guys adore those non-dira intervals they refer to as Bein Hazmanim when we abandon our diras [...]
Fastest beggar in the shuk. Taken outside the open shuk at the entrance on Yaffo. I’m told he’s a shtickel regular.