Tag: Yitz Grossman
Achrei Mois Kedoishim 2012 – Holy and Unholy
A special shout out: the Oisvorfer dedicates this week’s heylige words and extends wishes of mazel tov to his very good friends Aliza and Shlomie Liechtung who are celebrating Ben’s, their youngest child’s bar mitzvah this coming shabbis. May they have much and only joy, pride and nachas from Ben who will be laining, and [...]
Tazria – Metzoira 2012 – The Eighth Day: Redux
Raboyseyee and, of course, Raboyseyettes: The eighth day: Redux It’s taka emes that just last week, we learned Parshas Shimini which is all about the eighth day. This week we’ll learn about another eighth day, this one, mentioned in the Toirah way back in Bereishis: the bris on day 8. Efsher you’ve been wondering why [...]
Shmini 2012 – The Eighth Day
Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: The eighth day… Though many of us aren’t auditors, accountants, or even bookkeepers, avada we can do simple math, and over Pesach many were taka busy calculating the revenues and profits being made by the myriad kosher for Pesach programs’ operators. Daily, we took count of the number of people at the [...]
Pesach 2012 – The Hot Tub
Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: The hot tub: Nu, could there be a more confusing Yom Tov than Pesach? We recall our slavery and hard work by moving into our parents’ homes or mostly into hotels all over the country and around the world. We’re supposed to remember how our ancestors worked so very hard and avada [...]
Pesach 2012 – Part 2
Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: The Chometz Agent: Nu, where was I? Oh yes, I was about to tell you all about mechiras Chometz: how it works, why it works and more. Lommer unfangin: it all started with a Mishne (Pesachim 2a) which discusses the inyan (topic). Ober we’ll skip that for now and begin instead with [...]
Pesach 2012 – Part 1
Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: The Rabbi and the Goy: Nu, another year has come and gone and neither Eliyohu nor Moshiach made an appearance since last Pesach despite the fact that we diligently filled Eliyohu’s cup, opened the doors, sang all sorts of songs, including leshono habo b’yirusholayim (next year in Jerusalem) and invited them at [...]
Tzav 2012 – Thanksgiving in March
Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Thanksgiving in March: Oy vey: the Oisvorfer is a shtikel under weather with a farshtupta kup (stuffed head) and is unable to produce his usual pearls of wisdom. Accordingly this week’s Toirah will be quite short and you’ll have to find other reading material, which unfortunately many of you have in the [...]
Vayikro 2012 – Korbonois
Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Korbonois: Sparks Notes version The fun and games are over. No more (for a while anyway) salacious stories about Moishe being swallowed by a snake, about Yoisef and eishes Potiphar, Dina and Shechem, Loit and his two daughters, Yehuda and Tamar, Yoicheved and her merry go round husbands, Yitzchok marrying a three [...]
Vayakhel & Pikuday: The Chastity Belt
Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: The chastity belt: כב וַיָּבֹאוּ הָאֲנָשִׁים, עַל-הַנָּשִׁים; כֹּל נְדִיב לֵב, הֵבִיאוּ חָח וָנֶזֶם וְטַבַּעַת וְכוּמָז כָּל-כְּלִי זָהָב, וְכָל-אִישׁ, אֲשֶׁר הֵנִיף תְּנוּפַת זָהָב לַיה. 22 And the men came, on the women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought nose-rings, and ear-rings, and signet-rings, and girdles, all jewels of gold; even every man that brought [...]
Ki Sisa 2012 – To Great Women: A Dedication
Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: To great women: a dedication: In a week where we celebrate the courage of Esther Hamalka to share her jewels, if you chap, I thought we’d give a shout-out to other women of valor who played a role in this week’s heylige Parsha. One year ago this Shabbis, I added a proper [...]
