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Overheard: Chassidishe humor

What is the misnaged's favourite possuk in the Megilla?

Asher hagla MiYirushalaim...*

Why?

Because it is read with the Eicha melody.

If so, why isn't the entire Megillah read with the Eicha melody?

That would be too much holelus (levity)!

*The following verses should be read with the tune of Eicha (rather than the normal tune for Esther), to signify the sad or tragic implications of these verses: 2:6, 3:15, 4:1, the last half of 4:3, and 7:4.

Vos iz dos?

A very funny Purim post

by RaisinSoul, here

The Story of Esther in Hawaian Pidgin

The old and the new: Hilarious

Purim in Jerusalem

Surfboard Menorah

IPod Hanukkah lighting

* This reminds me of what I saw in this week's Mishapacha, in the interview with Chazan Helfgot. He says that there were many G-d fearing cantors in the early years of last century but they are now forgotten because they left no recordings. Why not? Apparently they, as a group, made a cherem that they should not record their melodies because so many Jews would come home after a full workday on Shabbos, and then, to assuage their pained souls, would put on a recording of Chazzonus to, in some way, feel connected to the Shabbos feeling. For this reason, so many of the frum chazzonim left behind no recordings.

Yiddish Roller Kinderlach

The Shofar and the Pooch

See at about 20sec. ************Perek Shirah: Dog, what does he say?: 'O come, let us bow down and bend the knee; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker!' (Psalms 95: 6).