Public Service Announcement

The Hebrew word for "practice" or "custom" is minhag. The H is just an H. If you say "minhag, you are speaking gibberish.

This has been an announcement d'hazzanan. Feel free to shout it from the rooftops.

Technical update

Anonymous comments are now enabled. You can go ahead and delete the accounts I forced you to create, if you like.

M'rahsh'wan matok!

In honor of the coming Rosh Hodesh (Friday and Saturday), here's some light reading by Rabbi Ari Z. Zivotofsky, Ph.D.

(Rav Zivotofsky's column, Legal-Ease, is devoted to "researching commonly-held beliefs," which seems to be a polite way of saying "Jewish stuff that just about everyone gets wrong.")