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Ger Tzadik (Sorta): March 2006
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Friday, March 10, 2006. First State of the Blog Address - 3/10/2006. I am traveling today and won't be back to my normal location until Monday, so no new real essay for today. The essays take at least an hour of quiet sit-down time to form themselves, and preparing them ahead of time is very.Not Me. So this post will just be off the cuff. There are at least another 2 weeks worth on tap, and every post seems to create new topics and ideas! It can be very difficult to write a personal essay without over-re...
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Ger Tzadik (Sorta): February 2006
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006. Severe Intermarriage Problems in My Family. Help! I know what you must be thinking (I say that a lot, don’t I? I guess I go out of my way to mislead people with my post titles.): But you’re not even Jewish yet! How can your family have an intermarriage problem? The answer is that it depends on how you look at family of course. And that’s not counting the larger family, where the count is unsure at this date, but has to be even larger. (Never bothered to keep track.). After all...
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Ger Tzadik (Sorta): Severe Intermarriage Problems in My Family. Help!
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006. Severe Intermarriage Problems in My Family. Help! I know what you must be thinking (I say that a lot, don’t I? I guess I go out of my way to mislead people with my post titles.): But you’re not even Jewish yet! How can your family have an intermarriage problem? The answer is that it depends on how you look at family of course. And that’s not counting the larger family, where the count is unsure at this date, but has to be even larger. (Never bothered to keep track.). Be Vewy, ...
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Ger Tzadik (Sorta): Not Dead Yet
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Monday, May 08, 2006. But boy has it felt like it! Posted by Ger Tzadik at 11:32 AM. Links to this post:. Ger Tzedek: A righteous convert. Converting to Orthodox Judaism is not for the weak hearted. Interesting blogging is not for the dull witted. E-mail is GerTzadik (no spaces or dots) at Hotmail.com. First State of the Blog Address - 3/10/2006. The Marvels of Jewish Geography. What Are My Minhagim? Wrestling With a New Jewish Identity. Speed III: Self-Destructing Shul - Staring Keanu R. Krum as a bagel.
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Ger Tzadik (Sorta): The Marvels of Jewish Geography
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Thursday, March 09, 2006. The Marvels of Jewish Geography. The whole thing still boggles the mind to this day. The fact that I’ve had my first real experience in this area (and wow, is it a doozy! Has had me laughing out loud all night. I said at the time that it feels like another checkmark on the list of required Jewish experiences. Here’s hoping for more of them, and that they never become old. Posted by Ger Tzadik at 7:46 AM. Links to this post:. What Are My Minhagim? Shabbat for a Goy: What a Hassle!
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Ger Tzadik (Sorta): Speed III: Self-Destructing Shul - Staring Keanu Reeves
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Monday, March 06, 2006. Speed III: Self-Destructing Shul - Staring Keanu Reeves. Attending your first weekday minyan, it’s hard not to get the feeling that there is an unnatural urgency to praying. If the pace of prayer drops below 550 words per minute, the whole place will go up! You walk in, pick up a siddur, open it up, and.feel utter despair like never before in your life, because you have no idea what’s going on. This can be helped only with a beginners minyan essentially. Now you finally do the big...
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Ger Tzadik (Sorta): Awkward Moments for Converts-in-Process
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Friday, March 03, 2006. Awkward Moments for Converts-in-Process. A note on this post: It is meant to be both informative and humorous. It was not designed to single out any group or person. Where it might sound harsh in places, none of this really bothers me as much as it might appear by the writing. The community I am in treats me wonderfully, no doubts about it. Enjoy it for what it is! Nothing like praying before you pray. How’s that? Try sharing the awkwardness with others! Become peripherally involv...
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Ger Tzadik (Sorta): What Are My Minhagim?
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006. What Are My Minhagim? It’s a strange question for most Jews, but something that most converts must wonder about at some point during their conversion. After all, the traditions of my fathers are great, but they’re notJewish. One of the questions many friendlier Jews ask when told that you’re converting is: What are the traditions for converts? Do you get to pick your minhag? If so, what’s going to be your meat/milk waiting time? There have been sideways conversations about it, ...
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Ger Tzadik (Sorta): Challenge: Brachas
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006. This is going to become an ongoing series. Thanks to a lack of creativity, it will simply be the Challenge series. It’s going to document the most difficult parts of observance either at that moment, or in the past. The vast world and importance of brachas in Jewish life was revealed to me in a very strange fashion: The radio. A normal Friday night, previous to my observing Shabbat 100% of the time, consisted of listening to This American Life. Which begins about 37:30 into the...
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