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Actually, it IS a popular song, although strictly musically speaking, it’s not very ear – friendly to me. I believe it’s in most Chanukah songbooks and has been recorded by various artists. I like your lyrics.
BTW, we all know about the song ‘ szoll a kakas ‘ , which the Kaliver Rebbe “stole” from a Hungarian peasant and transformed some other tunes into holy songs. Who knows what other words the peasant used in the original.
Plenty of tunes these days being hijacked by frum singers from the secular music world and attached to psukim, and the oylam dancing away at weddings… But that’s another story.It’s not what I think, it’s what they think
Haimy & chabadshlucha, both make good points.
I’ve been somewhat involved in public lighting ceremonies some years ago, and it was a delight to see many secular or unaffiliated Jews enjoying it ( and latkes, music etc.) and how much pride they exhibited, they and their children, even just for the hour.
We’re between a rock and a hard place.YWN is news website & get ad revenue based on views, so a catchy headline is a way of attracting clicks. It’s called business strategy. Avi K, I think it depends on which moderator is on that moment, or maybe YW can explain how it works.
RebYidd,
Not 1 precious memory ?
A precious memory is like a duck…. if it quacks, walks, feels like it, it’s precious. It’s very easy to know.
Bad memories?? I think WE will pay to wipe them out.Who gets the insurance check & who’s watching?
My little neighbor Moishele just reminded me that the Pesah Seder is replete with praise to Hashem for how he punished and drowned the Egyptians… What’s that Moishee. ?
Oh yes, and how thrill on Purim about the hanging of Haman and how Yidden killed the anti-Semites…
Here Moishele, here’s some Chanukah gelt…It’s only downplayed somewhat because the mission of the battle was to increase spirituality and clean service in the Bet Hamikdash. The battle wasn’t an end in itself. That said, the Bimei Matityahu which follows Al Hanissim in the Amidah, is generous in praising the miracles of the battle.’
“…….Ha-Shem got upset at us for being too happy when Ha-Shem drowned the Egyptians, ….”
FALSE. HE was upset that the MALACHIM were preparing praise, not us. The Az Yashir is full of praise and happiness over the Yam Suf miracles. Every cheder boy knows this, inside out.
“…….Most of the “Greeks” were OTD Yidden ….”
Really? Where did you get that from?“……We won a battle but lost the war….”
So what? Chanukah was established BEFORE the Roman invasion.Coffee addict,
You ain’t makin’ no new wedding…. and you ain’t forgetting anything.. How long you married??
Your current wife be putting her hands on that million befire you can chant a harei att with a new one…
Trying to slip that mil in your pocket past her, is like trying to slip a sunrise past a rooster…
Your wife is like mine and everybody else’s… Happy Chanukah..laskern,
I think coffee addict’s kidding with “memory ”
You make an excellent point. Precious memories are gifts from Hashem to last a lifetime even one ch”v loses material things. They enrich a life and I regurgitate them in my mind all the time , and they make me happy. No one has a guarantee for a tomorrow when new memories can be made. Even if yes, new memories do not replace the old , and are not meant to.
There are precious moments in a life, even if they be for a couple of seconds, but stay in the mind forever.
No, keep the millon, I savor my jewels, those precious priceless memories.laskern,
Could be that’s what the rebbe meant.cmburzon… Lol… No frock… He was actually a very nice man.
Mashed potatoes & peanut butter were indeed the main staples, not sidedishes . …Along with the unforgettable noodles& cheese treats.Nope, wasn’t misquoting.
Maybe that’s why he was lunchroom rebbe.Milhouse,
A POTATO latke?
Reminds me of when in the yeshiva lunchroom I put some mashed potatoes in between bread slices.
The rebbe on lunchroom duty that day saw me eating it, walked over to me and quoted the gemarah ” Haneh tipshoi d’Bavli d’uchleh nahama B’nahama .”
To this day, I don’t know what I did wrong.You’re being offered 1 million $$$ with the caveat that one or more of your precious memories will be deleted from your mind forever. Would you take it, or rather refuse and hold on to the memory for life??
He has courage, but many will call him disturbed.
They’ll be right…… something(s) disturbed him, and maybe the chair melee was the final disturbance.I suspect Foxman said that as a dig against Trump. As ex- CEO of ADL, he recently blamed Trump for increase in anti-Semitism, even as his former employer agency is busy manufacturing fake anti-Semitic data to also bash Trump.
He pulls out his “Holocaust survivor” card when it suits him.
However, he was a pretty decent fellow compared to his successor who’s turning the ADL into a progressive org., which… oh, by the way, is also Jewish.
ADL, HIAS, AMER. JEWISH CONGRESS, under the now meshuga Lauder are a shame & a sham as far as sddressing Jewish concerns are concerned.Foxman was head of ADL, not ZOA…
ADL now , under J. Greenblatt is a left wing anti,-Jewish values, even sometimes anti – Israel org.
ZOA is the only proud Jewish/Zionist org. under the great Mort Klein.Strange….
Where are the Trump bashers vis-a-vis Saudi Arabia today? Bush adored the royal Saudi family even when hands got chopped off.. Let’s be honest… The patrician, wasp George Bush pinched his nostrils when in proximity with Israel.
Dubbya was different, but pop liked sheiks & oil..Winnie,
My parents told us that they never heard of, or used the word latkes till they arrived here, at least that’s my recollection.. My mom, also of Czech-Hung. used chremzlach for all types, and dad called the cooked ones kayzlach, which mom never heard of.
I guess it depended from which area they lived in.laskern,
Are you sure?
The regular fried ones were called chremzels, the cooked ones my father called “kayzlach”… He was Romanian-Hungarian.Now Joseph, in the spirit of Chanukah, let’s be pals at least for 8 days…. You clocked that one, but good…😁
MUSTARD,you little rascal, you. How’d I forget about you ?
That’s also what my bas melech and her conspirators feasted in at every snack… It gets worse.. There’s this mustard/mayo squeeze product they used.Here’s Shmerl, the town crier in the market:
Hear Ye… !!
Global warmi….oops… Climate Change will yet be the destruction of ye… No shidduch crisis, no evidence..
Hear Ye…. Get ye to Mars, Florida is diappearing by 2019… Hear ye…In the 2 shuls ( 1 small, 1 midsize) that I daven , there are 11 singles over 22 yrs. of age , counting brothers & sisters. On my block, I counted 7 ( they go to different shuls, so I’m not counting them twice).
Between 5-8 more that are in the neighborhood whom I know casually. There’s no shidduch crisis?
And this is only a 5-10 lock radius.. Yeshivish, not to yeshivish but black hats, even some chassidic, some no hats.
IOW, a mix.
Some parents know others in other neighborhoods who are also single and talk about the problem.. I’ve never encountered this situation before, and it must be going on everyplace except maybe in all chassidic neighborhoods.
There’s a shidduch crisis.I al so have Ketavim Nivcharim, by Rav Yitzchok Nissenbaum, HY”D, a Holocaust victim, and once secretary to Rav MohilivER. It’s out of print. In it, R’ Nissenbaum relates his experiences in the Mizrachi movement as a prominent rav and organizer. He & R’ Reinis knew each other.
This sefer was edited by one, Eliyahu Moshe Ganchovski, out of. Jerusalem years ago. Published by Levin- Epshtein Bros.Freddyfish,
At Hebrewbooks.org.
You’ll have to navigate the site and I’m not sure if they spell his name Reinis , Reines or Reinus,.
In addition to Shaar Aleph which deals exclusively with his thought & experiences in the Zionist movement, there are also the other chalokim of the Shnei Hamoros.
Also, his other works, including shaeiles & tshuvas … a whole slew of them which you can print out in total.
It also has his sefer, now out of print, Ohr Chodosh Al Tziyon, which I was able to purchase on line, which also contains arguments pro-Zionist.
Good luck.Re: Rav Teichtal, HY”D
Rav Reinis Z”Tz”L, also talks about it in Shnei Hamoros,Shaar Aleph, an entire discussion about the Zionist movement .
My son discovered it online, sent it to me, and one of the
telling things about it, is that so many rabbonim supported the movement, and how they were essentially bullied and shut down. I don’t believe this is in book form.Mayo is another one. 😫… I’ll leave that for another time.
Mariana,
I’m not much into ketchup dipping and never paid much attention to it, so I was taken aback when a non-Jewish colleague told me years ago that it was a Jewish thing.
Lo & behold, she was right. I started noticing my kids and other guests requesting ketchup , and watched as they used it on EVERYTHING… My wife was like : Don’t you even know what goes on in our house ?? … That started a ketchup fight… I won, ’cause I squirted a no-brand brand at her, and she used Heinz… you know, slowest ketchup in the West.I prefer latkes plain, followed closely with sour cream.
Dipped in applesauce can’t be better tasting at all.
My proof? A recent NBC/WAPO /CNN poll showing 97% of latke luvers prefer apple sauce…. + or – 5%.😆laskern,
You’re a big talmid chochom.
And as such, it’s surprising that you don’t have the tvias eyin to see the corruption & shameless sheker on the other side.
The program$$$$$$ , ie… shoichad…. has blinded your eyes to their nefarious agenda..
Hopefully, you’re not a Dayan…. But I’ll acceot your perushim and psiktas on other subjects… Don’t take this personally, you’re altogether a good man..Chachmei Umos Haolam is not an absolute blanket.
The onky thing that means, in our case of science for example , is an admission that Science is a legitimate concept and has in it Teva, a creation of Hashem.
However, there’s a vast difference between Science & scientists . The latter could be fraught with error or fraud.
Take coffee , eggs , alcohol, chocolate as examples.. During the last decade or so,contradictory scientific studies negated each other’s findings.
We’re being hit with C hachmei Umos Haolam over the head to believe scientists without question. That’s not what what it means.DaMoshe,
Lol…
He put it under HUMOR to take a roundabout dig, hence my lighthearted response.
Ever hear of the song ” Killing me Softly” ??….I’m talking color, pixelation, overall quality, sharpness, etc.
Yserbius,
Would you know what kind of job those laser printers do on professional photos, as opposed to inkjets?Avi,
Now I understand why guys shouldn’t teach their wives Torah… Just kidding ladies, just kidding..
See ? I’m also Eisenhower.They, like all men, believe in Daas Baalabusta….
Wife if they’re married, mommy if single.
Like Eisenhower, when he was asked, ” Are you the man or the mouse in your home?”……
Eisenhower: ” The man…. My wife is afraid of mice.”Hey navi mw13,
He sure high-tailed it after his ribbon cutting ceremony, didn ‘t he ?I never heard of politics becoming religion, only of religion becoming politics.
Those who don’t see how Dems have changed, remind me of those who still wear these wide tie clips, call a pharmacy a ‘drug store’ ( me too, lol) wear Keds sneakers, call a song a ‘number’, spell out doughnuts, for the newly modernized donuts, call a podiatrist a chiropodist, and drive cars with clutches….lol
What CTLAwyer neglects to tell you is that Trump adulterized as a Dem…. that Dems INSIST that you allow every gender into your toilet…. That however their personal lives, Repubs don’t legislate that to you and me, Dems do….. That Dem/ media has lowered the bar on polite talk on radio/ tv/ movies….. That one can’t even listen to a sports station on radio without being blindsided by filthy language, ad hominum attacks on values….That Dems support this obscenity… That schools and academia have become cesspools of immoralty, censorship, revision of American history… That Dems/ media are offending religious people, whom Yidlibs are frightened if, every day.. That Dems want to legislate our very lives…
That TDS folks are insanely obsessed with Trump’s past but pushing for same sex marriage and suing bakers to bake them pies against their beliefs… That the Dems are the party of Big Brother, that scary insane society to which we’re drifting..edited
laskern,
Posters above gave you good answers.
But in short……. Dems today want a pound of your flesh; yiur taxes, your morals, your values…. Want to tell you how to think, talk, walk & what to eat… Read the book 1984 and you’ll understand how scary the Dems are starting to resemble this insane society…Laskern,
For some reason, you don’t want to face the fact that elements in the Dem Party gazled and ganved and hijacked the party from what it once was, right under your nose.Guys, what you’re doing is the exact opposite of what the OP seems to want here…. Really, besides a minority group, who cares?? Why you ruining someone’s thread??
So what do you want to talk about? Hobbies, travel ?
How about quotes which can be debated , or post your own.
I thought about it because I saw this the other day :” Sometimes you’ll never know the value of a moment till it becomes a memory.”…….. Dr. Seuss
Depends where.
I’m sure KJ voted for the yammi-bopping Cuomo who was treated to a bowl of fresh peaches & Chiquita bananas.
Same in Skver who oodled and canoodled with Hillary…
Depends where.Neville is on to something,
In order to stamp out golus-ee Ashkenazi soups with matzoh balls, the old Zionist regime decided to go Arabic- goy cuisine.
Ikah D’amrah, that Golda Meir in a clandestine mission ordered by Ben Gurion and dressed as a male chalutznik, sneaked a meeting with the then Turkish Pasha, el-Chaptzem, and collaborated to import schwarmah as a way to destroy Ashkenazic minhagim, then move in on Sefardim by pushing pizza joints.
I’m not vouching for the accuracy of this rumor at all…. Only saw it on street pashkevillin with blazing black headlines which read : Tziyoini Kofrim !!!OTDKanoi,
I may be wrong, but those plane statistics are for commercial airliners only.
Small private planes & helicopter crashes are quite frequent and might even be under reported.
You won’t get me on the small planes.Re: Gilgul
Boy, did you nail that one… ” They despised the land..”.
The Spies were bigger talmidei chachamim than anyone today.
So much so, that Moshe Rabbeinu gave Yehoshua a bracha, and Calev needed to daven at Mearat Hamachpeilah not to be influenced by their moireh’dige pilpulim, their svoros , which were deep and astounding.. Stronger arguments than the pitiful ones we se here and all over.. Yet, they were horribly wrong… Caused a bechiyah ledorot..
Israel is the only country in the world that’s on the up & up, while every other country, including the USA is on the decline. All because Hashem is orchestrating it.. These people are in denial, they continue to spew venom, refuse to acknowledge the daily miracles, refuse to be good role models so that many chilonim might yet respect the religious way of life and do tshuvah themselves.
Hashem is signaling… Come home… It’s not going to get better here. Hachacham with einov brosho sees what’s going on. We are not meant to stay here in this Golden Land..Moderator-29,
A number of days ago , it might have been late last week,
A new thread began, untitled, Joseph as OP, and there was a short video of a rabbi/author , a noted anti Zionist he’s from Far Rockaway,
I responded to that video but in about 10 minutes it was gone.
There were no comments from Joseph, just the video with his name on it…. I thought the whole thing strange.