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אמר רב, במועד ליפול על בני אדם בבורות עסקינן
Rav says:
"What we are dealing with here is [a cow] already well-known for falling on people in cisterns."
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carved on the walls of the caverns by Steg (dos iz nit der šteg) at 8/01/2005 08:32:00 PM
25 Comments:
I just learned that Gemara yesterday!
Great! Then we can compare notes... did it also take you an hour to get through one of the Rashis on that ‘amud, like it took me and my hhevrusa?
Are you talking about the Rashi where it saw a vegetable in the pit and went for it? I'm flying through the Gemaras in the 5th perek right now because it's all chazara of bikius. I hope to finish reviewing Bava Kama by the end of the summer so I can take the big test in the Yeshiva for lots of money! (Nah, I'm just doing it lishma).
Cows were known to do a lot of strange things in Babylonia.
Thank Gd I live in Wisconsin...wait...
I'm slowly making my way through Baba Kama myself.
Did you get up to the part with "Assia dmagan bemagan, magan shaveh"?
I wrote a song about that.
RaChaK:
Yes, that one!
Me and my hhevrusa usually plan on learning for about an hour to an hour and a half each night, but we got so stuck in figuring out that Rashi that when we looked at the clock after finishing it we realized we had been going at it for a full hour passed when we originally had planned on stopping.
It got so bad that my mind was drifting and i drew that picture in the post. In many stages. And it's my hhevrusa who was the one known back in high school for making witty illustrations to go along with strange Talmudic cases!
PsychoToddler:
Well, if you ever come across a cow in Wisconsin who's well-known for falling on people in pits, please take a picture for the rest of us! (Just don't get too close)
Haven't got up to the "assia dmagan bemagan" yet; my hhevrusa and i are still about 15 pages before that. Is your song listen-to-able anywhere?
Here.
If it's your custom not to listen to recorded music during the 3 weeks, it can wait.
Then again, most people would not consider it to be music...
PT:
I try not to listen to to music gratuitously, but that song is brilliant! I think i understand now why you, Dilbert, and others dislike "shiny shoe music" so much. Although it is catchy. And i'm sure most people *would* consider it music, and that might be the problem? :-)
The word "assia" reminds me of how a guy at my Upstate shul would say kaddish with a very idiosyncratic accent. He pronounced ...di ve’atra hadein vedi vekhol atar va’atar... as "...di ve'asya hadein vedi vekhol asa va'asa...". He was dropping his reishes like English "butta" for "butter", except in atra/asra where it became a "y" sound. Really weird. Sounded cool, though.
the sages who are in this Asia or any place...
-a.s.
People have told me this Shiney-Shoe spoof that I wrote in about 5 minutes and recorded in 90 is one of my better songs.
Maybe there's a message in there somewhere...
Anonymous said...
the sages who are in this Asia or any place...
-a.s. (=Allen Scott)
No, it's "the sages who are in this Asia or in any myrtle (אסא)"
PT:
Well, i must admit it is a great song. Maybe they like it better because it fits more into what they expect a Jewish music song to be? I did notice that your voice sounded clearer, although maybe that's part of the style?
A.S.(I.A.) & Mar:
:-)
hilarious! The drawing is a classic in the making....
Wow...advertising bots on blogs..
that sucks.
-a.s.
Those bots definatly can't spell.
McAryeh:
Thanks! Your blog is the king of all blogging-with-illustrations, though!
Everyone:
Should i just delete the bot?
Of course you should delete the bot.
Great cartoon!
DELETED!!!!!!!
Thanks, Shifra!
I think you mean...
BALEETED!
How about a theme song for your blog:
The House of the Falling Cow (music: The Beheimes)
PomestarTunner:
What about DELORTED?
Lipman:
You mean change the title from Hall of the Goblin King to House of the Falling Cow? I'd consider it, if 1) the blog's theme was limited to Talmudic case laws of cows falling off of roofs and/or into cisterns, and 2) i didn't have so many friends who are way more obsessed with cows than i am. I'd like to hear that song, though! ;-) Maybe it can be PT's next hit shinyshoe song!
hey, dat happened once!
Thanks for the cows with guns link, enjoyed it!
I've got a Polish friend who made up her own word for plasters (as in band-aids). It sounded exactly how we say it in Australia. Coincidence or what?
I'm not sure either, Mirty, but it's very Potsie of you.
ROTFL!
qim leih bideraba mineih is a Talmudic legal principle that means that if you've violated a number of prohibitions that make you liable for different punishments, (in certain cases?) you only get the more severe punishment, and don't get the less severe one.
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