Just came back from a weekend spent down in Pennsylvania, celebrating my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. For the first time in a while, all of us were in one place (with the exception of Shana and Gwen, up living in Boston and weren’t able to make it down…and by the way, Gwen is looking for a job. She’s particularly skilled at baking, if anyone knows of anything.)
My folks got a small room at a local place called the William Penn Inn, a restaurant so fancy that there was a harpist outside the room. I’m sure we drove him nuts because my father and I kept singing along anytime he played show tunes.
My pregnant sister and my pregnant wife have an established greeting wherein, instead of shaking hands, they bump bellies.
Ah well. Off to atone. Hope God doesn’t strike me down for entering my BLOG on Yom Kippur. That would kind of suck.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if God had written the Bible in the form of a blog? There’s a few comments I would have liked to make here and there…
What would you call a blogged version of the Bible anyway? “The Extremely-Anotated and Much-Commented-About” version? Or perhaps “The Meme Edition”.
Isn’t the point of the Torah to do biblical commentary and annotation?
I suppose so, but as I recall, I don’t think we’re supposed to write our comments in the Torah, for all to see. That’s what shouting is for! 😉
The bump thing is quite funny but I hope they don’t meet each other too often: I would have thought such force could do damage to the children’s development.
(what a spoilsport, eh 🙁 )
There is no commentary in the Torah (sometimes referred to as the Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch).
The commentary is all in the Talmud. I guess it can be envisioned as the Torah being the original blog entries, and the Talmud being the comments …. but in a blog there isn’t a way to comment directly on the comments.
And for the ideal metaphor, we would need this capability.
And here I am posting blog comments on Yom Kippur. And I have already attended services, so I will not be able to atone for this until next year. (sigh)
The rabbis get awfully mad if you write, or even pretend to write, in the Torah.
L’shana tova tikatavu! May the new year be a good year for us all, and may you and yours be inscribed in the book of life.
Eric L. Sofer
The Silver Age Fogey
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Hope you had an easy fast, Peter.
Actually, there’s plenty of commentary on the Torah. I have one edition of Genesis with at least 15 different commentaries on every page.
Happy Anniversary to your parents, Peter, congratulations on your upcoming fourth child, good luck to Shana in finding a job, and Happy Yom Kippur.
Did I miss anything?
What’s the status on your goldfish? 🙂