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The Hazzn's Tish

Or: A Cantorial Student's Dispatches from his Outpost in Manhattan

Sunday, October 31, 2004

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.

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Technical update

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

Monday, October 11, 2004

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.")