BaraitaA blend of academic, religious, and pop-cultural esoterica.Not So Fast- September 26, 2006 Today will, I think, be the last day my family can eat exclusively from our Rosh Hashanah leftovers -- after dinner tonight we will merely have a bit of stuffed cabbage and some mock chopped liver in the fridge, and one of us will have to start cooking again. It does not feel like fasting season, to put it mildly, but we're in between the two closest fasts of the year for Jews -- and of course it's Ramadan now for Muslims, who undoubtedly think us six-day-a-year fasters are wimps. Yesterday..http://www.baraita.net/blog/archives/2006_09.html |