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- I have a minhag to come up with a list of minhagim for each yom tov that might not actually be minhagim, but that my kids might think are minhagim if I don’t actually say something at some point.

We now present part 2 of my article about why brissin are easily one of the least stressful simchas to make. 

Kive I. Strickoff CPA, AIF^® manages a Financial Planning and Wealthcare practice in Garden City, with offices in Manhattan and Florida.  Among other affiliations, he is active in FSI, the Financial Services Institute of Washington, D.C.  FSI is an organization which advocates on behalf of average American investors, as well as the financial advisors and broker dealers that serve them. 

How come when you say that a person is yeshivish, you mean it as a good thing, but when you say that a car is yeshivish, you mean it as a bad thing? It’s never like, “Great news! Turns out my car is very yeshivish!”

Brissin are one of the most chilled simchas, for everyone involved except probably the baby.  And maybe the mohel.  (And probably the sandak.) 

Every year, I write about the Ig Nobel Prizes, which is a real ceremony that hands out awards for scientific studies that at first seem ridiculous, but then when you think about them, seem obvious.