*הכבע שלי שלש מטבחות...
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theyellowhobbitRight before the 3-day holiday started, I called ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
levana_b. It had just dawned on me that they were not going to be singing maarei cohen or chad gadya in Cambridge on Simchat Torah, and I was sad about that.
Somehow we got onto the subject of halachic authority, and the fact that I have 3 different kinds of authority.
The first is being a LDRHA, that is, a Local Deli-Roll Halachic Authority. If any questions come up in the process of creating a deli-roll, I exist to answer them speedily and competently, to ensure that you make the best deli-roll that you can given your oven and ingredients.
The second is my perhaps illegitimately stolen "Chad Gadya Smicha." Once upon a time, YR and AR came to Penn and taught everyone their tune for Chad Gadya. It became a Penn tradition to sing it. But there was only one person who sang the verses. It got passed down from the Rs to AL and then toarigi and then either to HL or MF or perhaps both of them. And because of issues of kol isha, that is the prohibition in Judaism for a man to hear a woman singing, Chad Gadya smicha was only given to men. A woman could sing it in an all-female setting (or in a place where none of the guys kept/believed in kol isha) but how many all-female groups would sing it? It's a song that requires energy that sadly most of the all-female song sessions I've been to have lacked.
But last year I was atgroovin_reuven's house for passover, and on the second night we sang the Penn Chad Gadya. And I was the one who did the verses. I decided that Chad Gadya smicha was unnecessary, and thus made off with my own illegitimate Chad Gadya smicha.
The third halachic authority I once had was being a head mashgiach. That one's actual authority, to the extent that ifa_jewfro or I were put in a life or death/kosher or trief situation we would have to make a decision if Barry wasn't around, and then that's what would be done, and if we made a bad decision then it would be our metaphorical heads. And now levana_b gets to be a head mash.
Solevana_b asked if any of these authorities came with amusing hats.
The LDRHA position merits the wearing of a tin-foil hat, because traditionally deli-roll is made on tin foil, though parchment paper is a lot more effective and the deli-roll doesn't stick to it. But you can't really have a parchment paper hat, and not many people besides me make deli-roll with parchment paper.
The [illegitimate] Chad Gadya smicha gets a hat with horns. Credit for that goes tolevana_b.
And what does a head mash wear on their head? It needs to be a hat with chocolate and ice cream and love. Though then there's a problem of what happens if you're mashing in a situation where you're in a pareve or meat kitchen? We decided that the hat needs 3 compartments with locks and refrigeration, so one would be milcheig, one would be pareve, and one would be fleishig. Unfortunately I don't think one could wear a refrigerated hat without their head collapsing from the weight, so we have to settle for just the locks and things that won't go bad without refrigeration. Thus the dairy compartment would have chocolate, the pareve compartment would have some pareve candy like mike&ikes or twizzlers or button candy or rock candy, and the meat compartment would have to just be symbolic tin foil again, since we couldn't think of anything fleishig that wouldn't go bad. Besides, you can always eat pareve food while you're mashing fleish, provided you don't bring any fleish utensils into the pareve compartment.
Thus my hat has 3 kitchens.
Also, there was something else that was amusing thatlevana_b and I came up with that I'm supposed to write about but I can't remember what it was. But hopefully she'll remember. Perhaps it had to do with harems...
*My hat has 3 kitchens. There's a kid's song that goes "my hat has 3 corners..." and in Hebrew classes they teach it and then teach verb conjugation using that tune for some strange reason.
levana_b. It had just dawned on me that they were not going to be singing maarei cohen or chad gadya in Cambridge on Simchat Torah, and I was sad about that.Somehow we got onto the subject of halachic authority, and the fact that I have 3 different kinds of authority.
The first is being a LDRHA, that is, a Local Deli-Roll Halachic Authority. If any questions come up in the process of creating a deli-roll, I exist to answer them speedily and competently, to ensure that you make the best deli-roll that you can given your oven and ingredients.
The second is my perhaps illegitimately stolen "Chad Gadya Smicha." Once upon a time, YR and AR came to Penn and taught everyone their tune for Chad Gadya. It became a Penn tradition to sing it. But there was only one person who sang the verses. It got passed down from the Rs to AL and then to
arigi and then either to HL or MF or perhaps both of them. And because of issues of kol isha, that is the prohibition in Judaism for a man to hear a woman singing, Chad Gadya smicha was only given to men. A woman could sing it in an all-female setting (or in a place where none of the guys kept/believed in kol isha) but how many all-female groups would sing it? It's a song that requires energy that sadly most of the all-female song sessions I've been to have lacked.But last year I was at
groovin_reuven's house for passover, and on the second night we sang the Penn Chad Gadya. And I was the one who did the verses. I decided that Chad Gadya smicha was unnecessary, and thus made off with my own illegitimate Chad Gadya smicha.The third halachic authority I once had was being a head mashgiach. That one's actual authority, to the extent that if
a_jewfro or I were put in a life or death/kosher or trief situation we would have to make a decision if Barry wasn't around, and then that's what would be done, and if we made a bad decision then it would be our metaphorical heads. And now levana_b gets to be a head mash.So
levana_b asked if any of these authorities came with amusing hats.The LDRHA position merits the wearing of a tin-foil hat, because traditionally deli-roll is made on tin foil, though parchment paper is a lot more effective and the deli-roll doesn't stick to it. But you can't really have a parchment paper hat, and not many people besides me make deli-roll with parchment paper.
The [illegitimate] Chad Gadya smicha gets a hat with horns. Credit for that goes to
levana_b.And what does a head mash wear on their head? It needs to be a hat with chocolate and ice cream and love. Though then there's a problem of what happens if you're mashing in a situation where you're in a pareve or meat kitchen? We decided that the hat needs 3 compartments with locks and refrigeration, so one would be milcheig, one would be pareve, and one would be fleishig. Unfortunately I don't think one could wear a refrigerated hat without their head collapsing from the weight, so we have to settle for just the locks and things that won't go bad without refrigeration. Thus the dairy compartment would have chocolate, the pareve compartment would have some pareve candy like mike&ikes or twizzlers or button candy or rock candy, and the meat compartment would have to just be symbolic tin foil again, since we couldn't think of anything fleishig that wouldn't go bad. Besides, you can always eat pareve food while you're mashing fleish, provided you don't bring any fleish utensils into the pareve compartment.
Thus my hat has 3 kitchens.
Also, there was something else that was amusing that
levana_b and I came up with that I'm supposed to write about but I can't remember what it was. But hopefully she'll remember. Perhaps it had to do with harems...*My hat has 3 kitchens. There's a kid's song that goes "my hat has 3 corners..." and in Hebrew classes they teach it and then teach verb conjugation using that tune for some strange reason.
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Date: 2007-10-07 04:35 am (UTC)I was taught the three-corner-hat song, but apparently for no reason, since they never taught us verb conjugations with it! That's so awesome!
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Date: 2007-10-07 05:07 am (UTC)“My kitchen is named Fred. Fred has many crockpots.”
-Jon Lubin
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Date: 2007-10-07 06:51 am (UTC)Jerky.
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Date: 2007-10-07 10:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-07 03:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-07 03:04 pm (UTC)Not that I'd rec this particular brand. We found it to be too salty.
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Date: 2007-10-07 03:26 pm (UTC)it's called "origami" semikha because it's sort of like a mail-order degree... but you 'fold' it yourself.
of course, real origami takes a lot more effort than origami semikha does, but i like the name. :-P
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Date: 2007-10-07 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-07 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-08 09:22 am (UTC)Yes, I do think too much sometimes.
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Date: 2007-10-08 07:09 pm (UTC)I suppose I could just eat whatever food in the hall outside of the kitchen, and then lock up the hat and head in the kitchen when I'm done eating.