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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Bones
- Name: Yaakov Kirschen
- Location: Israel
I started Dry Bones in Jan 1973. Since then I've been known as "Bones" to friends and colleagues. This is the first time I've ever shared the "stories behind the cartoons." Enjoy.
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I am debating weather to dig up the root and grind or buy ready-made. Oh decisions decisions.
Dear Friends:
A friend of mine told me he was glad he wasn't Jewish, as shaid that the'd rather eat cardboard than Matzo, so I told him he could have his cardboard and I'll stick to the Matzo, the cardboard hasn't any calories where as the Matzo has 120 per sheet.
It wouldn't any worse than a joke I heard about a Rabbi who sat down in a park during Pesach. He sat down next to a blind man, who he felt sorry for, so he broke off a piece of his Matzo and gave it to the young man, who after a minute or two asked who wrote this.
B"H
G-d bless you Bones! :) We, my Seder friends and I, are having a 5th bitter herb added in memory of the Azza pogroms: a whole onion that we bite as if it was an apple. Pesach sameah!
BS"D - Somehow the "sabra fruit" analogy is a little more romantic - but I am looking forward to my shmurah matzot here, AT HOME, in MY Jerusalem. (OK - I'll share with the other Yidden)
Eleanor - grind. Put on the mask and grind. It's better that way!
Ariel ben Y: What are the Azza pograms?
B"H - The Azza pogrom is what the Government Of Israel or the GOI, as it liked to call itself in English until recently, named "Disengagement" and involved the forced removal of about 8000 Jews from their houses and from their businesses in Gaza. A reconstruction of the events can be seen on YouTube 1 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27TUyXm8HQ
B"H
Bless you Ariel Ben Yochanan!
I will get my onion too.
Happy passover guys. Remembering Jesus on the Bible.
God bless you guys. and yes, happy passover too.
Horseradish by another name . . .
Wasabi!
Got some kosher l'pesach one year, but it didn't do ti for me. I had a rabbinic friend who thought we should eat enough horseradish to really know what slavery was like, so last year I took a chunk about an inch long and the same in diameter.
WHEN I AWOKE . . . my daughters made me promise never to do that again.
This year's bitter herb will be romaine lettuce, a perfectly good substitute.
As far as the onion, aren't you adding something to the seder that's not really supposed to be there? We're not supposed to be adding or subtracting from the ritual, which is why some people have a second or third seder - the "political" one.
Yakov, may your grinding be fulfilling and meaningful.
Ariel, find the joy of the seder without the onion - save that for the second seder.
Joseph, I read that book and he's right.
Sarah Leah, think of me when you bite down on that fresh shmurah - my fav!
Chag Sameach!
Bones,
You continually give us new ways to smile about thousands of years old Jewish tradition.
The best ever was GRAPE MATZOH, but they don't make it anymore. It was the bees knees.
Happy Passover!
We've got an "almost 14" (year old) dwarf rabbit who survives wonderfully on matzeh and matzeh meal goodies; he never turns his nose up at the stuff (although I think he prefers the softer Shabat hallah he gets the rest of the year). But no ha-reef; he'a a Polish (not Moroccan) dwarf bunny, but "strictly halak."
Hag kosher v'samach
May G-d bless you and your family Bones !
Hag Sameach to you and yours and kol Yisrael.
Mmmmm... Matzah pizza and matzah lasagna! Popovers and matzah ball soup and so many sights, tastes, smells, and blessings!
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