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2sense:What could I have been thinking of? I just checked and what I said makes no sense whatsoever. Oh well.
Sam and 2sense: During all of the stages, Chizkiyahu was king.
Sam: not those, the alternate names. One, as mentioned above (by Menashe) is Torat Kohanim for Vayikra. If there’s more than one for a sefer say both.
Goq: LOL! I never thought about it from that angle before.
In a similar scenario in my (NY) area, my teacher, an avid Jets fan, showed up a few weeks ago and told us, “The Jets lost. Count on a HARD midterm.”
The midterm’s tomorrow. I’m scared.
Personally, whether I personally believe there should be a state is immaterial (it won’t change anything). What I do believe is that we need to stand behind the people of Eretz Yisrael and we can’t abandon them because they’re “Zionists” because they’re acheinu beis Yisrael. In my school we say Tehillim for Eretz Yisrael not because we’re Zionist but because we believe that our tefilos help keep the people of Israel safe. Health, did you cry less about the Fogel family because they were Zionists? The boys at Merkaz Harav?
2sense: thanks!
Tzidkiyahu was Shalom, I believe, and Daniel was Balteshatzar.
I’d like a clarification, not knowing enough about copyright law to make a statement.
It is title 17 of the United States Code -95
Sorry about that, Sam! That sounded kind of… infantile of me.
What are alternate names to each of the chamisha chumshei torah?
I repeat— if a tune is being outright copied, isn’t there a copyright issue?
Sam2: GOTCHA!!!
2sense: correct!
Yirmiyah, Tzefanya and Chuldah were the major neviim in the time of the Churban Bayit Rishon. Yirmiyah spoke in the marketplace, Tzefanya prophesied in the beit medrash, and Chuldah taught from her home by Shaar Chuldah.
Thanks for giving me a review for my navi midterm in two days!
I’m not a sports fan, but my dad is.
Yesterday the Giants won.
Today we’re getting ice cream.
I wonder if there’s any correlation?
I reached a major milestone today— I swallowed my first capsule! I’ve done small tablets and “M&M” type ones before but this is my first capsule.
I’ve always found it really hard to swallow pills, but I was getting sick of the gross grape Motrin and stuff like that so I forced myself to learn how to swallow. M&Ms are great for learning (though it feels like such bal tashchis).
Some things are just too big so I take advantage of the fact that I can still take that bubble gum antibiotics (not exactly good, but better than that “cherry” stuff that tasted like tar).
I’m worried I’m need to take more meds now because I have symptoms that are really bad right now. I hope I won’t need to.
I meant Amotz, just to clarify.
Come on, we need to wake this thread up a bit!
Who was Yehudis? (bearing in mind, of course, that this is a TANACH trivia thread…)
pba: Who is to say that that particular war was the only cause of the destruction of bayit sheini?
oomis: the folllowing is from another web site:
History of Straw hats and Felt hats – Giuseppe Borsalino The story of this company began in 1857, in Alessandria Italy; when Giuseppe Borsalino, a true pioneer and captain of industry, set up the first artisan workshop for the production of felt hats.
Ma’amad Har Sinai was in 2448— giving ample time for Moshe and Aharon, not to mention Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov to buy Borsalinos.
🙂
I usually read through the entire topic and then post. Which is why I barely post on most topics, because most of what I’d say has been said already.
Which is why I’m wondering why I’m still posting this after the thread has already gone off topic.
Ohhhhhh….. 🙂
Sorry about that. I’m in midterm mode.
But it was very cute! And I haven’t seen the movie either, just read the book. And yes, it was great.
Those flavors sound delicious! My dad actually once put ketchup and mustard on his ice cream once. And my mom ate a whole lump of wasabi because she thought it was guacamole, but that’s a whole ‘nother story.
Also, I know someone who made really good homemade ice cream and flavored it with whole mint leaves. It was awesome- the mint was strong in some places and more vanilla-y in others, and the minty parts were a gorgeous color.
Zahavasdad— you’re from Brooklyn, aren’t you?
A kohen of the egel in beit el— in Amos
I just helped someone study Amos for their midterm!
Shticky Guy- Not knocking huckleberry ice cream or anything but—
Ohhh. 🙂
That’s cute.
But I was referring (as you probably figured out) to Arsenic and Old Lace, not Huckleberry, um, Gin.
Shlomo
Yedidya
Kohelet
Lemuel (I’m pretty sure)
Is there another one in Tanach? I know of others but I don’t think they’re in Tanach.
Jan 11th:
FIRST JEW TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE IN AMERICA TAKES HIS SEAT IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA PROVINCIAL CONGRESS (history channel)
Francis Salvador, the first Jew to hold an elected office in the Americas, takes his seat on the South Carolina Provincial Congress on this day in 1775.
Born in 1747, Salvador was descended from a line of prominent Sephardic Jews who made their home in London. His great grandfather, Joseph, was the East India Company’s first Jewish director. His grandfather was influential in bravely moving a group of 42 Jewish colonists to Savannah, Georgia, in 1733 despite the colony’s prohibition on Jewish settlers. The Salvadors then purchased land in South Carolina.
After the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 destroyed their Portuguese property and the East India Company collapsed, draining the family’s resources, the American property was all the Salvadors had left. In 1773, Francis Salvador left his wife and children in London to establish himself in South Carolina with the hope of rebuilding his family’s fortune. Within a year of his arrival, Salvador won a seat in the South Carolina General Assembly. In 1774, South Carolinians elected Salvador to the revolutionary Provincial Congress, which began to meet in January 1775, and in which Salvador spoke forcefully for the cause of independence.
On July 1, Salvador earned the nickname “Southern Paul Revere” when he rode 30 miles to warn of a Cherokee attack on backcountry settlements. Exactly one month later, while leading a militia group under the general command of Major General James Wilkinson, Salvador and his men were ambushed by a group of Cherokees and Loyalists near present-day Seneca, South Carolina. Salvador was shot and scalped by the Cherokees. Although he survived long enough to know that the militia had won the engagement, he never learned that the South Carolina delegation to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia had taken his advice and voted for independence from Britain.
Salvador was the first recorded Jewish soldier killed in the American War for Independence. He died at the age of 29, never having managed to bring his wife and children from London to the new country for which he fought so bravely.
MIEP GIES, WHO HID ANNE FRANK, DIES AT AGE 100 (history channel)
On August 4, 1944, after 25 months in hiding, the eight people in the Secret Annex were discovered by the Gestapo, the German secret state police, who had learned about the hiding place from an anonymous tipster who has never been definitively identified. Gies was working in the building at the time of the raid and avoided arrest because the officer was from her native Vienna and felt sympathy for her. She later went to police headquarters and tried, unsuccessfully, to pay a bribe to free the group.
In 1987, Gies published a memoir, “Anne Frank Remembered,” in which she wrote: “I am not a hero. I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did and more–much more–during those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the heart of those of us who bear witness. Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened then.”
MY BROTHER WAS BORN!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY
!!!My grandfather started smoking at a stressful time in his life. He stopped three months later, when his father developed emphysema from a lifetime of breathing in SECOND-HAND smoke at his workplace.
Kal vechomer….
Oh, I love that movie! I thought it was hilarious but my sister was freaked out by Jonathan and Dr. Einstein.
I bet I’m the youngest person to get the reference!
My favorite flavor is unquestionably anything with chocolate. Preferably really good-quality chocolate ice cream with brownie chunks and hot fudge sauce. (Don’t gag, it’s awesome)
If not, then vanilla brownie chunk layered with caramel sauce in a sugar cone topped with chocolate syrup.
Correct—- but what’s weird is I was only thinking of one of those (the king of Moav). The other one I was thinking of was Shaul almost killing Yonatan (albeit against his will) for eating honey on a fast day.
Who was Shalum ben Tikvah?
Sorry, all wrong (though I like Feivel’s definitions better than the real ones (: )
However, I’m not so sure these were so fair of me to post, because they’re pretty obscure. Some knowledge of Greek and Greek mythology can help on many of them (along with some trivia knowledge).
To make up for it, another riddle (this time solvable!)
From a website:
INSTRUCTIONS:
Read the descriptions provided below and try to guess which proverb (old saying) they each represent. Don’t worry if you say the “proverb” in a slightly different way than shown in these answers. Over the years, there are many slightly different ways of expressing an old proverb!
If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.
Each vaporous mass suspended in the firmament has an interior decoration of metallic hue.
It is not advantageous to place the sum total of your barnyard collections into the same wicker receptacle.
Feathered bipeds of a kindred mind in their segregated environment associate with a high degree of amiability.
Deviation from the ordinary or common routine of existence is that which gives zest to man’s cycle of existence.
He who locks himself into the arms of Morpheus promptly at eventide, and starts the day before it is officially announced by the rising sun, excels in physical fitness, increases his economic assets and celebrates with remarkable efficiency.
Do not traverse a structure erected to afford passage over a waterway until the time of drawing nigh
A mobile section of petrified matter agglomerates no bryophytes.
Pulchritude pertains solely to the epidermis.
Repost: Two fathers IN NEVIIM who either killed or nearly killed their sons. (There might be more but I’m just not thinking of it.) One of the ones I’m thinking of is a medrash connected to a story in neviim.
Clarification: What shalom bayis problem in neviim caused a war in which thousands were killed (amongst bnei yisrael)?
LOR= Local Orthodox Rabbi
William Safire’s Rules of Writing and Grammar
Remember to never split an infinitive.
A preposition is something never to end a sentence with.
The passive voice should never be used.
Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read.
Don’t use no double negatives.
Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate; and never where it isn’t.
Reserve the apostrophe for it’s proper use and omit it when its not needed.
Do not put statements in the negative form.
Verbs have to agree with their subjects.
No sentence fragments.
Proofread carefully to see if you words out.
Avoid commas, that are not necessary.
If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
A writer must not shift your point of view.
Eschew dialect, irregardless.
And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.
Don’t overuse exclamation marks!!!
Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
Hyphenate between sy-
llables and avoid un-necessary hyphens.
Write all adverbial forms correct.
Don’t use contractions in formal writing.
Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
It is incumbent on us to avoid archaisms.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Steer clear of incorrect forms of verbs that have snuck in the language.
Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times, resist hyperbole.
Also, avoid awkward or affected alliteration.
Don’t string too many prepositional phrases together unless you are walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
Always pick on the correct idiom.
“Avoid overuse of ‘quotation “marks.”‘”
The adverb always follows the verb.
Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague; They’re old hat; seek viable alternatives.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Employ the vernacular.
Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
Contractions aren’t necessary.
Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
One should never generalize.
Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
Be more or less specific.
Understatement is always best.
One-word sentences? Eliminate.
Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
Who needs rhetorical questions?
Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
capitalize every sentence and remember always end it with a point
I believe it was twelve crowns— could be mistaken.
What happened to a family’s shalom bayit that caused a huge war in which thousands were killed? (neviim)
Aviyah (not to be confused with Aviyam melech Tehudah!)
Why did he merit to be die a natural death, as opposed to being conquered by Ba’asha?
I could be thinking of something else, but I think that the king of Moav had the son of the king of Edom captive.
not2bright and cinderella: correct!
ICOT gets points for originality 🙂
What is
Pharology
machirology
melissopalynology
cytology
deltiology
esperatology
pulicology
selenology
gelotology
hippology
blinky- yes and no
bekitzur: is that limited only to Sam? Otherwise I’d like to answer it.
Is there a copyright issue?
Isn’t it the same thing, for all practical purposes (unless you mean specifically the sections discussing kohanim)? I always learned that it was Vayikra.
Lateral Thinking Problems (from a website)
A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, coat, gloves and ski mask. He is walking down a back street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?
A man went to a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone else at the party who drank the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?
This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out.
(There’s a book a lot like this paragraph. THAT WAS A MAJOR HINT.)
I eat at 6:15 every morning and I’m fine. Just eat something light, like a bowl of Cheerios or something. If you eat anything too heavy you get nauseous.
Be warned, it doesn’t last long; you will STILL be hungry at about elevenish.
Avi K: I watched a video of a Beatles concert and it made me despair of women (and I’m one of them) 🙂
Popa: Not being especially learned in this sort of thing, I’ll stay out of the argument, but frankly, the way you said what you said was definitely not menschlich. Even “hochayach tochiyach,” if that applies here, requires more consideration of the feelings of others.
Sefer Vayikra
Two fathers IN NEVIIM who either killed or nearly killed their sons. (There might be more but I’m just not thinking of it.) One of the ones I’m thinking of is a medrash connected to a story in neviim.
Correct, bekitzur- why the question marks?
Speaking of Dovid and the aron, what was one undeserved criticism Michal had of Dovid, and what was her punishment?
Correct, bekitzur- why the question marks?
I meant and/or.
Who hosted the aron before Dovid brought it to Yerushalayim, and what was his family’s reward?
Zimri= Shlumiel ben Tzurisheddai, or Shaul something-or-other
Nope- here’s the situation:
Shaul wanted Meirav to marry Dovid. She wanted to marry someone else, so she did. Who?
Ohhh sorry, Sam2! You’re probably right- I really meant the thing about Cyrano de Bergerac.
Sorry about the misunderstanding!
Repeat: Who was Meirav’s husband?
Sam2: nope!
What were the names of the three most famous giants in Eretz Yisrael?
Rainbow theme- 1) everything is rainbow, like rainbow cake and jelly beans, etc. or 2) each food item is a different color
Make one really cute food, like purim cookies, or a really fancy, nice thing, like baked goods or chocolates, and put a bottle of wine or something as your second food.
Buy glass/plastic vases, layer candy inside, and stick a few fake flowers in (of course, I don’t know your budget, but it sould probably work).
I think it was 85 kohanim.
For some reason I thought it was more.
Sorry, I made a mistake about the second answer to my question. Forget it.
What was the name of the man who Meirav wanted to marry?
What was the name of the man who Shaul forced Michal to marry? What was added onto his name and why?
Who was killed by a stone dropped on his head from a tower?
There are possibly multiple answers; I can think of two, one from Chumash and one from Navi.
Another name of a wife of Dovid Hamelech: Avital
Give the names of at least 2 of the maids of Esther Hamalka and which day of the week they served on.
Come on, guys! More questions!