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Purim: A Fish Farewell (from FB)
I was asked, in the spirit of Purim, to write a eulogy for three goldfish that met their untimely demise last week. I complied, and the...
חידה (from FB)
משנכנס אדר וכו'! לכבוד אדר, חידה ששלחתי להרב שלי לפני בערך עשר שנים. (דרוש רקע בספרות העברית הקלאסית, כולל תנ"ך, תלמוד, ושירה העברית של...
Poem: San Francisco (from FB)
I love you for your summers, San Francisco The ones that start September-time, or if It’s hot that year, late August, when they leave The...
Poem: Dostoevsky and Tea (from FB)
There’s Dostoevsky And there’s tea And then there’s Dostoevsky with tea And that Is an entirely different matter.
Bathos (from FB)
From Pope's Peri Bathous, a mock treatise on how to attain Bathos, or "sinking" in poetry, meaning how to write exceptionally mediocre...
Music: McGoldrick - Leaving Uist, Lochaber Badger (from FB)
Three Guys Start Playing Irish Music What Happens Next Will Amaze You
Ovadiah HaGer and the Earliest Notated Jewish Music (from FB)
I just came across something too interesting to leave buried in the interwebs, so here it is. A little over a century ago, scholars...
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