End of the week and what were you talking about???

LOL So I confused you guys with the last post, eh? muuuhahhahahaaaa....

Let me try to undo a bit of the confusion. :] FOW is Fairy Odd World (Lo throws shoe at Yo because she already knows that.).

A podcast is basically a pre-recorded radio show. Some are live, but not mine. Podproducer is a computer program I use to create them. Sadly, stupid new pc won't let me use that software.

Gemara is Talmud which is the oral part of the Law that was given to Moses on Mt. Sinai. So what's the oral part? Welp, the Torah tells us to keep Shabbat, but it doesn't tell how. That's because Hashem explained it to Moses and he simply told everyone else. It didn't need to be written.

The Torah tells us to keep kosher, but doesn't tell us how. One more time, that's because Hashem told it to Moses and he relayed it to everyone else.

So, when did it get written down? After the destruction of the Second Temple, Rabbi Yehudah haNasi (haNasi means "the prince") wrote down the oral part of the law because he was afraid it would be forgotten because of everyone being separated and going into exile.

In the gemara the Rabbi's argue back and forth about various laws and a bunch of other stuff. And I shall leave it at that before I bore you to death. :] Anyway, here's a page of Talmud. It's written in what's called Talmudic aramaic. Have a great weekend! :]

A happy morning!

I'm happy to announce we still have electric!  B"H!

My aunt and uncle in town don't and neither does one of my AVON customers.  The bad part for her is her husband has the flu and their propane tank is almost on empty.  Not good.

We're not supposed to have any precipitation today. YES!!!  I'm waiting to see if the temp warms up to above freezing.  If it does I'm taking my bike to Jim's.  It's only 1.8 miles away and I need a few groceries.  As long as no one's stupid dog tries to chase me I should be fine.

Tried to get my new podcast up at FOW.  I worked for a several hours on it last night, but podproducer won't pick up the music and sound effects.  It did on my old pc, but not this stupid new one.  I'm trying it again today.  If it doesn't work I'll do a boring one.

At least it was a cool idea. I was re-enacting the Gaza war.  :]  Hey!  Wait!!! I could pull out my army men and do a video version!  Just might do that!

Before I go, let's explain the army men.  I use them sometimes when I'm trying to figure out an argument in gemara.  (long pause)  On second thought, just pretend I never mentioned I play with army men to learn.  LOL!!!!  I need a chavruta.

Off to eat, daven, review Sanhedrin 4b before class at 3:00 and work on my pod or video cast.  :]

Cya!

Introducing little Gracie Elisabeth!

Here's a pic of my middle nephew Tim's little girl.  She's a sweetie!  :]  Gracie was born Monday.   

Oy!

Today has been wild.  I thought for sure we were going to lose our electric.  It was flashing on and off like crazy.  I was glad when it finally settled down.

I feel so bad for the wild animals.  A finch showed up at my window looking for food.  I felt horrible.  I don't have anything or any way to get to Jim's (2 miles away) to get any bird feed.  I put some cat food out.  Hopefully that will help some.

We've been snowed in all week.  It's not looking much better for tomorrow.  It's like an ice rink outside.  hmm...I wonder how the squirrels are doing with the trees iced?  hmm...

New crossword puzzle up! :]

At long last! I've got the online version of the weekly Torah Crossword Puzzle up!

Since a few people mentioned that last weeks was a bit hard, I made y'all a little cheat sheet! At the bottom of the puzzle is a word list to choose your answers from. :] For those who like searching through scripture for the answers that you don't know, ignore list. :] The scripture search reference is under the crossword title. :] Anyway, here's the link to Torah Friday. The links and stuff are in the left column. :]

If you don't get through, weebly might be updating. They should, I hope, be done by 8:00 PM.

On to more news! Kitty chucked up some blackish looking stuff that looked like it had dead black worm looking things in it. We're pretty much snowed in so if it's something serious there's no way to get her to the vet. I'm calling tomorrow to find out what might be happening. She hasn't looked all that great for a couple days. Her eyes look really tired. Poor baby.

The deer are having a time finding water. Everything is frozen over. Tonight I saw them making their way down the hillside to the creek in front. I saw a few open spots in the ice this afternoon. I'm checking again tomorrow and if the holes are closed over I'll have to open them again.

Anyway! Still got some stuff on my to-do list left, so I'm outa here. Enjoy the puzzle! :]