random update

[kippurbird]

so I lost the condo. It took so Fecking long to find a roommate and get the paperwork and then find out that the system changed for some godforsaken reason that my dad had to rent it out to help pay the mortgage. So some strangers have moved into my Condo while I'm stuck at home. We now have to fight the system so that they can give me what I need. But I'm still stuck at home. And Chaucer is getting bigger and can't seem to be cooped up in the cage or my room any more, it's not fair to him any way. But he can't leave my room because of Pepper and Fishy Ferguson. And we can't let him outside because he hasn't had all his shots yet and besides that Carrot the next door neighbor's cat has staked out our backyard as his territory and would rip Chaucer to shreds.

It sucks.

Also I got a low C on my test. I just completely blanked and got confused on the test. Couldn't tell my left from my right.

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Strange phone call at work today. A woman was looking for a Neshomah (a medium) for her sister who was also a medium and was afraid of something. Not really a reference question, now is it?

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There are some girls- women- on the UJ campus wearing tzitzit the fringes on corner of the clothes that the Orthodox men wear. I find it... offensive in away. It just feels wrong. I mean MEN are the ones who are supposed to wear them. It's their commandment. It's part of what they have to do to be Jewish. Not women. Women have other roles. And, as my mother says, if the women are doing the men's roles too... who's left to do the women's?




A timely gift:

About the middle of December, Grossman rushed inot a Jewish book stoe and asked for a special fine edition of the sidur the Orthodox prayer book.

"Sorry," said the bookseller, "We are out of stock, but I can it it for you."

"Can you get it within a week?" Grossman asked, "you see, I need it for a Christmas present."

Comments

[yechidah.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry that you're dad rented out the condo he bought for you. It sounds like a pretty intolerable living situation. I hope it gets resolved soon.

And remember: a C is a passing grade! You'll do better next time.

I only saw a couple women wearing tzitzit at UJ last year. There's some debate about whether the Torah commands the wearing of a four-cornered garment with tzitzit, or if it just says you have to put tzitzit on a four-cornered garment if you happen to own such a garment.

But, in either case, it is a Torah regulation, and Medieval rabbis only exempt women from some of the time-bound mitzvot, for example: prayer services which must be recited within certain hours.

There's no commandment that only women keep. Men are obligated to keep kosher and light Shabbat candles-- a husband is even subject to the regulations surrounding his wife's menstrual cycle. Luckily, Jewish women continued to preserve tradition even in eras when men haven't-- which is why Judaism survived in western Europe in the 19th century. (Men used to say that if women were allowed to vote or go to college or write books, no one would be left to have babies and raise them.)

I love your new icon. Did you draw it?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I made it here: http://abi-station.com/ It's really a neat site.