"btw, i thought vodka was more popular at chasidisher farbrengens"
yeah, haintige doir.....

Time to thank Zem.    eyn miliim.  eyn anu maspikim...  Thank you for the joy, the fun, the divrei torah and for you. K'siva v'chasima tova.

I second that motion. And thanks for bardmart, and guardmart. I think we gotta start a thread for 'the keepers'. The real gye moments... Ah whatever. A gut yahr !

1daat, thank you for your kind words and brachos. i learn a lot from you. a ksiva vechaima tova, may blessings, happiness and growth come your way

BOT, a gut yahr to you too! see you in GuardMart

ur-a-jew wrote on 26 Sep 2011 22:17:


thank you UAJ for another great post. with this we can also understand what 'chaim shel chilutz atzomos' means, as well as a'nachnu neichaletz chushim', and 'chalutzim taavru'.

and you reminded me of this story: ZemirosShabbos wrote on 26 Jan 2011 16:14:


it took me a awhile, but i finally deciphered the auspiciousness of post 1144. here it is bekitzur: 'ur-a-jew' is "ata yehudi", which is gimatria 441 (like Emes), and if you put 441 together with 1 - for the RBSO (echod yachid umeyuchad), it makes 1144. (for those that did not know yet, UAJ wears a white bekeshe and a white shtreimel and can turn you into a frog if you are not careful, or so the legend has it)

and isn't mutatis mutandis a cousin of Michael Dukakis?

ZemirosShabbos wrote on 28 Sep 2011 14:19:


ולתשובת = 1144 (and for my answer):

You better be careful since the last one that started up with me got turned into a פרח זהב סיר which is begematria 572.  But he completely overshadowed anything that I could even think of, and his golden flower pot took the place of mine 572 x 2 = 1144.

So if you see some guy with a white bekeshe and a golden flower pot on this head singing zemiros, be sure to ask him for a brocha for a sweet and uplifting new year.

Since we are on gematria.  I will add a couple I heard recently.
גוף = 89
נשמה = 395
the difference is 306 which is .... דבש.  We use דבש on rosh hashana to raise us up from being preoccupied with our guf to focus on our neshama.  מוסר is also 306 and has the same effect.

One more goodie.
אגוז = 17
חטא = 18
טוב = 17

We know we avoid eating nuts because egoz = chet.  Well egoz = 17 and chet = 18.  It only equals chet by adding 1. egoz = tov exactly, both 17.  Why then do we avoid eating egozim?  We should eat them because they equal tov.  We avoid them because even when there is some tov, we still need to stay far away from chet.  (Add your own lesson here.)

Enjoy yom tov all.

good stuff, gibor!

what about Bill Gates?

ok, ok, at zemmy's request.  When I got the email about the gematria of egoz from a friend, I replied to it.  When I did, my spell check on MS outlook objected and suggested that I substitue the word egos, instead of egoz.  It gave me... well, a new outlook .  A pre-R"H message from the unlikliest of sources.  The source of chet, not the egoz, but the egos!

zemmy how was your geshtaltzemfleegin dipped in honey? rosh possum?yak tzimmes?im sure u used a loquat for shehechiyanu!

I had  woddford. So I would have a year where I would not behave like a ferd.

thank the One Above for His endless kindness to me and mine
yom tov was just fine

we dipped in the honey
and ate sabra for shechiyani

davening was warm
it's finest form

i did feel out of my league
like a gestalzimfleeg

after making kiddush on wine
in der heim

coming back to shul for shofar
feeling not up to par

more like purim
where there are shikurim

the sound of the tekios blew strong
and righted the wrong

yom kippur is the purim-cousin
and thats a dozen

days away
so while i may sway

it'll be shuckling tried and true
like a good jew

i like your zmirros
beutifull divrei shires

may hashem give you a good year
for you and everyone overhere

(by the way, isnt it an old gue minhag to dip the geshtalzemfluggen in the honey at night
then at day they fly away with the blowing of the shoffar)

thank you Shmeichel, a good year to you and yours too
filled with nachas through and through

would like share a thought that landed in my head on yom tov.
we say in musaf "Haloch vekarasa be'oznay yerushalayim laimor zacharti lach chesed ne'urayich etc.".

why is it important to specify that the Navi call into the ears of Yerushalayim? why doesn't it just say "lech emor lahem" or something similar.

If an announcement is made to a group of people, an individual in the crowd can feel that it was not directed at him specifically. But if someone leans over and whispers something in my ear there is no mistaking who the recipient of the message is. The RBSO is leaning over and whispering into our ears, each one of us, zacharti lach chesed neurayich ahavas kelulosayich. The RBSO remembers that 'good times' we had together and wants us to return to Him.

Thats on Rosh Hashana.

During aseres yemei teshuvah we ask for the other half of the equation:
Hashem shima bekolee teeyena aznecha kashoovois lekol tachanunoi.
That HKBH should bend over and listen to us. That we feel and believe that He is listening.

And on Sukkos we come to shul every morning and with the daled minim - that symbolize our hearts, eyes, mouths and spines - we sing and thank Hashem for doing just that: ahavti ki yishma Hashem ess koli tachanunoi, ki hita oznoi lee uveyamai ekra.

Thanks ZS for another winner! Beautiful!