This video “Colored Squares” parodies the now-famous YU Maccabeats Chanuka Video.
Here is the original “Candlelight” video:
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Yaakov and Esav – Selling the Birthright – What Went Wrong? – Hard Day at Work
by Rafael (Rafi) Hecht • • 0 Comments
Recently, I had a very difficult, stressful tiring day at work, so much so that I wasn’t being myself and even made some loved ones cry. This was on a Friday, and the stress carried into Shabbos and even Sunday. I will not get into the details, but again, I was not myself. I very quickly regretted my actions and have since tried to amend my ways. In the process, I was thinking of the Biblical episode in Toldos where Esav “returned from the field and was tired.”
I then thought, am I any different from Esav? I came “from the field,” i.e. a day of work, tired, and realized that I wasn’t myself. Esav similarly wasn’t himself, and felt that after the day he had he would surely die on the spot. That was when he asked his brother Yaakov to bring him “the red stuff,” the lentil soup (since he was dying of hunger/thirst).
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Kuwait Dust Storm March 25, 2011
by Rafael (Rafi) Hecht • • 0 Comments
A few days ago a sand storm hit Kuwait. Some amazed cameramen took videos as the sand storm covered the city and literally turned day into night.
Here’s one of the videos. All I can say is, THAT IS COOL!!!!
Google Exodus
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This is amazing how Aish does this. It took the story of Passover and made it relatable through internet channels like Facebook, Google Maps, Amazon, Gmail and more. There are many of these kinds of movies out there on the Web, but still, this is pretty cool.
The Non-Jewish Origins of the Custom Of ‘Shlissel Challah’ (Key Bread)
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Introduction Every year Jewish women, young and old, partake in a custom known to many Ashkenazim, to place a key (such as a door key to a home), inside the dough of a loaf of bread that they bake. This…