A New Home

On the recomendation of DK the Business Guru, I picked up shop and shuffled on over.

Jesus in the Talmud

I recently stumbled across an interesting book entitled The Talmud Unmasked. It is unfortunate that the hagiographic rewriting of history done in the yeshivishe-veldt extended to attributing aggaditta in the gemarah to stories of Jesus. These ideas have, ofcourse, escaped into the "real" world and do nothing less than substantiate canard and lend credence to the claims of our haters. An intellectually honest approach to the passages generally cited, and to the idea of Jesus being discussed in the gemarah at all, is located here. However, I care so little about this that I have already finished writing on the subject. Good-bye.

Tasty Christians

http://www.stsimonoftrent.com/

Why has this rancorous canard proven so persistent? Haaretz published an interesting article on St. Simon of Trent, but my own comment on this is simply that those who believe it do so against all logic.  To be sure, if I were to become a cannibal blood in the matzah would be the last route I took.  When there is such bedlam over using tap water during Pesach for fear that chametz has entered into the system, over milk from cows who ate grains, how can I possibly use the blood of a child who surely ate his wheaties or, at the very least, his eucharist wafer.  The eucharist wafer, not to put to fine a talmudic point on it, might not actually be considered chametz if one is mekabel the shitta of transubstantiation.  However, if transubstantiation can only occur when a wafer of chametz is combined in the digestive tract of a christian with wine (most assuredly yayin nesech, which presents another difficulty) and then I get hanaah from using the Christian youth's blood in my own matzah... hmm.  Would it not be simpler to make a nice Shobbos cholent instead?

Complete Rubbi"Sh!

An extraordinarily intelligent man occasionally gives private shiurim which I, even more occasionally, attend. From time to time I come across "underground" recordings of his as well. When I credit him in my writings, I attach the nom de guerre (and those who do not understand that this is a war are simply naive) Rubbi"Sh which is an acronym for Rebbe Shloime (the "e" on the end of his name is pronounced in the yiddishe fashion). As he tells it, he is one of the most quoted individuals in the history of the world. In every instance that somebody declaims, "That's Rubbi"Sh!" the intended information is being attributed to our teacher. His prolificacy is surpassed only by a certain Sufi mystic name Ibid.

Politics is SOOO Gay!

An acquaintance of my brother's, a member of the Kiryat Moshe Crowd to whom I shall refer as The Disgruntled Zionist, made an interesting statement. Here I quote verbatim from The Disgruntled Zionist, with a single caveat detailed post dictum: "If Hashem considers two male consenting adults doing each other up the pooper a toeva (abomination), what does he think of a government who anally rapes an entire community (read: Gush Katif)?" The single possible error in my rendering of this quote is whether DZ used the word "pooper" or "poop-chute". I do hope he will be forgiving of my imprecision.