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By: Jewlicious » Oh Palestine, oh Palestine, God shed his grace on thee…

Jewlicious » Oh Palestine, oh Palestine, God shed his grace on thee… — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:57:29 +0000

[...] So hey. Maybe this Hamas victory isn’t so bad. For the first time, we can honestly say we have no negotiating partner. Because we don’t. Instead we have a bunch of Islamic fundamentalist petulant crybaby bitches with combovers. Al hamdu lillah. Filed under: Isralicious Comments: [...]

By: Ofri

Ofri — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:25:15 +0000

whoah, chesticles galore. the before and after pictures are pretty interesting though, those of you who can navigate a site in hebrew.

By: shadai!

shadai! — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:20:05 +0000

ps: shadaim.co.il/ ;]

By: shadai!

shadai! — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:18:25 +0000

Cici – that’s Hungarian for breasts (in kindergarden).

However, in the “Midrash Shemot Rabbah” 3:6, the Rabbis interpret the name thusly:

Rabbi Abba bar Mamel has said: …When I do not immediately punish a person for their sins, I am called, “El Shadai.”

Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish is reported as saying:
What does “I am El Shadai” (Genesis 35:11) mean? [It means,] “I am He who said to the world, ‘Enough!’”

This interpretation is a pun on the name, Shadai. By vocalizing the word differently and by understanding the first letter, “Shin,” as a prefix meaning, “that,” it is possible to view the rest of the word, the letters “Daled” and “Yod,” as the word, “Dai.” The result is the phrase, “that it is enough.” Therefore, Shadai is the name of God implying His will and ability to set limits, to only go so far.

/Hillel/

By: themiddle

themiddle — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:15:09 +0000

Oh damn, Ofri, now I have to admit that I’ve actually still got friends who use the word tzitzim.

At least they don’t giggle after they use it. Then I’d really have to drop them from my list.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:43:17 +0000

Actually, I believe it’s a girl talking about her sister in the text. ‘Cause Shir ha-Shirim switches between male and female narration. ‘Cause it’s cool like that. And as we all know, women plastic surgeons are assur de’rabbanan. Although Rashi’s daughters pumped collagen!

By: esther

esther — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:01:35 +0000

So, those boys who were talking about their poor sister, did they become plastic surgeons? Or is that not in the text?

By: E-Kvetcher

E-Kvetcher — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 05:27:17 +0000

In the book “Eros and the Jews”, David Biale proposes that “El Shaddai” means the god with breasts;some type of merging of the “Earth Goddess” archetype with El, the traditional Caananite high god. If I recall correctly, his proof was fairly tenuous. In general, it seems that playing fast and loose with Biblical era etymology is a good way to make up a lot of completely unfounded ideas.

By: Ofri

Ofri — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:34:17 +0000

as underwhelmed as i am by the thought of being crossed of the list of your prospective friends, themiddle, i’d like to state for the record that i did not and do not use the word tzitzim, i was merely correcting ck. incidentally, i agree, it’s a stupid word, but i think it would be foolish of you to judge a person’s entire character on that basis alone. by the way, yishar coach to those of you who went to the text, i love it.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:27:03 +0000

And I quote:

“Achot lanu qtanah, v’shadayim ein lah. Mah naaseh l’achoteinu b’yom she’yedaber bah?”

“We have a small sister, and she does not have breasts. What will we do on the day she is spoken for?”

Definitely not slang if it appears in the Bible.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:09:08 +0000

That would be shidai, I believe. Can’t we get, like, an official Israeli who knows their grammar to advise us?

Anyway, whenever I hear an Israeli use the term tzitzi or tzitzim to describe breasts, I think of a child speaking, and cross off that individual from my list of friends and prospective friends because of the perceived immaturity.

It’s a bit harsh, I know, but what can you do.

By: Ofri

Ofri — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:00:16 +0000

actually i know for a fact it’s not slang, breast cancer is sartan hashad. tzitzim is slang. i was just wondering if the grammatic construct of shadai means my breasts.

By: esther

esther — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 15:41:41 +0000

Much as I love being described as “funny with that jaded New York edge,” I’m sorry to tell you that my next post isn’t going to be all that funny. You know, it’s possible that, as people, we all have many facets to our personalities: funny, sweet, sarcastic, serious, high-strung, laid-back, etc. I know it hasn’t been scientifically proven, and for the sake of the Jewlicious reality show, it would be easier if each of us only possessed one trait, but I think we have to admit that it’s possible that we’re (gasp!) complex human beings.

By: ck

ck — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 10:04:41 +0000

Being a spelling Nazi is oh so funny. Ha ha ha.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:27:08 +0000

Oh, and it’s garrulous, not garrelous.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:25:50 +0000

Damn, I want to be funny.

By: ck

ck — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:54:30 +0000

No. No you are not funny. Usually anyway. You’re like the serious/~~garrelous~~ garrulous voice of Jewlicious. esther is funny with that jaded New York edge, Michael is funny the way, you know, pot heads are funny. Muffti just steals stuff from Kenny or from his course syllabus. Laya is usually introspective and me? I’m just well rounded and worthy of emulation.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:42:54 +0000

I’m not funny?

By: esther

esther — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 04:20:46 +0000

In the spirit of the upcoming Day of Repentance, I’ll come clean. All my past posts were actually ghostwritten by TM. Sorry to have deceived you all, and wishing you a wonderful new year.

By: Jobber

Jobber — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:59:38 +0000

Shadaim is the original Hebrew term from the Torah, so about slang for breasts in Hebrew I have never heard any, the closest might be Pitzatza, but that is an overall term, although I would think that, well never mind.