Feelin’ Funny: Mordechai Schmutter

Have you ever seen someone making hand gestures while talking on the phone and you wondered why?  After all, the other party can’t see it, right? 

Better Than Sweetish Meatballs

Welcome back to “How Should I Know?” – the column that’s about 33% advice, 33% “Where did this minhag come from?”, and 33% sugar.

If there’s one bad thing you can say about fruits and vegetables, it’s that there are no new products out there.  Fruit is fruit.  It was here long before we were, and it will be here long after we’re gone, especially that spaghetti squash my wife bought that’s been sitting on our kitchen table for a year.  There’s no new fruit, except Rosh Hashanah time. 

The yomim noraim is a good time to work on our Midos, and what better midah is there to work on than the midah of humility? 

Now that yom tov is over, I think it’s time to get back to my diet.  Not that I’ve been dieting at all before Yom tov.  But it’s been long enough since yom tov started that my body doesn’t know that.  My body isn’t that smart.

So you’re sending your son away to dorm, finally, but it didn’t occur to you that you’re going to have to change your school supplies list from things like 72 pencils, 5 different color folders, and that pre-hardened glue that the stores are selling as “glue stick”.  So here’s a list that might be helpful, depending on how you define the word “helpful”.