Sweeping Israel
when moshiach is coming…the holy street cleaner, he will come back again, and he will clean the streets of the world…and do you know how he will clean the streetts?
when moshiach is coming…the holy street cleaner, he will come back again, and he will clean the streets of the world…and do you know how he will clean the streetts?
Emerson and Thoreau, Harvard men both, were once chapping a schmooze. Emerson was kvelling away; he was chapping hanaah that Harvard (at the time) featured so many different departments. As he told Thoreau, “Harvard now has all of the branches of higher learning incorporated into its curriculum.” To which Thoreau replied; “All the branches…and none [...]
So it turns out I sorta drunk-dialed Zaide on Purim. I think I wished him a Freilichen Chanukah. He was not amused. After a few minutes, though, he calmed down. And left me with this highly relevant quote that more or less encapsulates a good bochur’s Purim. “There are two people that I hate. A [...]
A recent Twitter conversation reminded of the excerpt I’ve pasted below. It comes from the sefer “Letters to a Buddhist Jew” by Akiva Tatz. It is a fascinating book that deals with a rather unusual subject- the similarities and discrepancies between Judaism and Buddhism- but covers a lot of the basics of Jewish faith on [...]