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hatam_soferet) wrote2009-04-04 10:37 pm
hatam_soferet) wrote2009-04-04 10:37 pm
miscellaneous. More tea, vicar?
* Anyone make chuppahs? Anyone know anyone who makes chuppahs? I mean the kind with lots of sewing, not the kind where you tie a tallis to poles. This is a practical question, as in, I've met someone who needs it done and I don't have any recommendations.
* You know when your neighbour is cleaning, because all their roaches come running into your apartment.
* I am so happy that I have a hand-held suckything that sucks up roaches, and then you slap a lid on them so they can't get out.
* Angela at Rumors Hair Salon in Riverdale is made of cookies.
* There was the most glorious rain on Friday; the whole surface of the road was swimming with the sort of flow you usually see in the gutter, but not running down the gutter, running down the camber. So much that the raindrops were throwing up lots of water on landing, as they would when falling onto a river. Very pretty to watch - at least if you were standing a sensible distance from the gutters, which were full enough that zooming cabs sent water six feet onto the pavement.
* Writing on Nice Klaf is so very different from writing on Nasty Klaf.
* Reading Etz Hayim on Tazria - on the bit about new mothers. Etz Hayim confidently asserts that the related impurities and required sacrifices are all theoretical, and that childbirth is not meant to be negative or any kind of punishment. One wonders if the author had read, oh, you know, the bit where God says that childbirth is going to suck because of Eve having screwed up? They possibly should have expressed their point with a little more care.
* Have never noticed before that Adam does not name Eve until *after* all the unfortunate business with the serpent. God says "I'm going to kick you out of the garden and you are going to have to work hard and it's going to suck and serve you right," and *then* Adam names the woman Eve, or Hava, which is a Life kind of word. Now perhaps that was because God invented childbirth on the spur of the moment and before that, calling her Lifey would have been silly, but still. He could have named her Holey or Faithless or Thanks A Lot, so calling her Lifey was quite a good deal really. And further, at that point Adam is actually still only generic, he is HaAdam and doesn't really have a name at all. This is sort of interesting.
* I probably ought to post that post about how I've started writing a new Torah :) You might have guessed from me talking about klaf and the early Genesis stories...
* You know when your neighbour is cleaning, because all their roaches come running into your apartment.
* I am so happy that I have a hand-held suckything that sucks up roaches, and then you slap a lid on them so they can't get out.
* Angela at Rumors Hair Salon in Riverdale is made of cookies.
* There was the most glorious rain on Friday; the whole surface of the road was swimming with the sort of flow you usually see in the gutter, but not running down the gutter, running down the camber. So much that the raindrops were throwing up lots of water on landing, as they would when falling onto a river. Very pretty to watch - at least if you were standing a sensible distance from the gutters, which were full enough that zooming cabs sent water six feet onto the pavement.
* Writing on Nice Klaf is so very different from writing on Nasty Klaf.
* Reading Etz Hayim on Tazria - on the bit about new mothers. Etz Hayim confidently asserts that the related impurities and required sacrifices are all theoretical, and that childbirth is not meant to be negative or any kind of punishment. One wonders if the author had read, oh, you know, the bit where God says that childbirth is going to suck because of Eve having screwed up? They possibly should have expressed their point with a little more care.
* Have never noticed before that Adam does not name Eve until *after* all the unfortunate business with the serpent. God says "I'm going to kick you out of the garden and you are going to have to work hard and it's going to suck and serve you right," and *then* Adam names the woman Eve, or Hava, which is a Life kind of word. Now perhaps that was because God invented childbirth on the spur of the moment and before that, calling her Lifey would have been silly, but still. He could have named her Holey or Faithless or Thanks A Lot, so calling her Lifey was quite a good deal really. And further, at that point Adam is actually still only generic, he is HaAdam and doesn't really have a name at all. This is sort of interesting.
* I probably ought to post that post about how I've started writing a new Torah :) You might have guessed from me talking about klaf and the early Genesis stories...