Comments on: Let Me Guess…The Donut Store Was Closed That Night?

By: Shy Guy

Shy Guy — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:05:15 +0000

Foxx Says:
August 5th, 2008 at 6:07 am

MMmmmm, barbecue Arafat day. That ought to become a new holiday.

Therefore, in Israel the custom is to grill a chicken with a strictly kosher hechsher that still has a lot of the feather stubble protruding from its skin.

By: Foxx

Foxx — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:07:10 +0000

MMmmmm, barbecue Arafat day. That ought to become a new holiday.

By: Shy Guy

Shy Guy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:57:15 +0000

deedybeedy Says:
August 4th, 2008 at 10:34 am

We don’t celebrate the downfall of our enemies (at least not in public!).

Who is “we”? Do you mean the “we” that know about some Pasuk in Mishle, like 24:17:

“When your enemy falls, do not rejoice, and when he stumbles, let your heart not exult”

but seem to always be ignorant of the earlier pasuk in 11:10:

“When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there is song.”

Is that the royal “we” you – DeedyBeedy – are referring to?

And how do the Mefarshim reconcile those apparently conflicting verses? I’ll tell you one thing: I can think of a lot of hill top caravans where the people therein have learned enough Torah to know the answer (sample hint: see Rabbeinu Yona on Mishlei 24:18).

What do you live in, DeedyBeedy? An ivory tower or a shtetl?

By: Ben-Yehudah

Ben-Yehudah — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:40:45 +0000

B”H

Dave,

Looks like you have some interesting readers here. I’m all for expressing opinions, but now it looks like deedybeedy maybe crossing the line into “halachic rulings,” perhaps. Would he care to share his [halachic] source?

Once he said “We don’t…” he opened up the halachic can of worms.

This should be good!

BTW, all of the men mentioned live in houses or apartments. Are you suggesting there’s something wrong with living in a caravan and/or on a hill?

By: deedybeedy

deedybeedy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:34:02 +0000

We don’t celebrate the downfall of our enemies (at least not in public!).
If they wanted to celebrate then they should have done it within the privacy of their hill town caravan!

By: Shy Guy

Shy Guy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:33:37 +0000

Here’s a better way to barbeque. Note the deceased’s name.

By: steven

steven — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:36:23 +0000

How is holding a barbacue for Arafat in Bad Taste? Satan is probably loading extra picante triyaki sauce on him right now as he roasts on a spit in such good company as Stalin, Pol Pot and Esla Koch. Barbacue is what is going to happen to him for a good long time.

By: Kae Gregory

Kae Gregory — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:06:22 +0000

Well I was celebrating – and all I got to show for it is this lousy t-shirt.

By: ron

ron — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:44:48 +0000

I don’t get it, how is this a waste of money? Now they have the funds to hold a real barbecue for next year.

-ron

By: Don Cox

Don Cox — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:06:51 +0000

I think there’s a difference between being relieved that a dangerous man has gone, and actually holding a party to celebrate. It can’t be right to celebrate the death of any human being, however evil he might be.

That said, I think the police should have left them to party.