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Not really, but I totally could now.
See, I was talking to a friend of mine who is an israeli academic, and I showed him how I have linberg comstock syndrome, and he said, oh, then you can’t be in the army anyway.
I can’t? Awesome, I can totally make aliya then.
Aside: If we all just cut off our fingers, would the tzionim let us learn torah then?
Hey! Me too!
popa_bar_abba
“If we all just cut off our fingers, would the tzionim let us learn torah then?”
We need our thumbs.
At least you can’t be in the army band.
poppa-bar-abba:- You should make Aliya immediately without any delay, so that you shall only have to keep 1 day Yom Tov this Shovu’os, and you would be able to fulfill 8 Mitzvos Asseh d’Orraisso vis a vis Tefillin this Thursday.
Even if you only decde during the middle of this Thursday when in Israel that you are making Aliya, you immediately discontinue Yom Tov Sheni and make Havdolo and lay Tefillin on that very day.
pba: I find that comment disrespectful abt the Israeli army. Even if you said it in jest, they are protecting our country and we should be eternally grateful for that! It is understandable why they think chareidim should join the army as they don’t understand the full significance of why learning is so important. But they still deserve our respect and gratitude.
hey yoya: I don’t think that pba is making fun of the israeli army as much as he is making fun of the draft.
I once read 1/2 of the kids in Israel that fit the draft figure out some way to get out of it (not including chareidim)
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pba: In seriousness, does that mean an exemption? 🙂
Apparently, about 30% of people have it, and more women have it than men. (So I’ve got a backup, I guess…)
“The Linburg-Comstock (LC) syndrome is
distinguished by the inability to actively
flex the interphalangeal (IP) joint of the
thumb without simultaneously flexing
the distal IP joint of the index finger. Any
resistance to this ‘parasitic’ reaction
causes pain on the palmar side of the
wrist or in the distal part of the forearm;
this is due to an anomalous tendinous
connection between the flexor pollicus
longus (FPL) and the flexor digitorum
profundus (FDP).”
So you can make aliya as long as your thumb and index finger make aliya together.
So you just have it really severely- when I bend my thumb, my first finger bends 90 degrees at the middle joint.
Then again, I’ve got so many miscellaneous issues that if THIS is a problem, there’s no way they’d let all my stuff through.
How Old
Eileen’s two-year-old great-grandson was excited about
having his birthday in a few days. When asked how old he
would be, he always said he would be four and held up four
fingers.
His mother tried to explain that he would be three, that
three came after two, but he wasn’t convinced.
He told her that he had to be four because when he tried to
hold up three fingers, the fourth came up too.
pba- we’d just blame it on always runs fast with scissors.
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