Tuesday, July 24, 2012

On sitrei Torah

Hilarious, typically British, excerpt from an 1890 obituary for the unusual Hungarian-British scholar Solomon Schiller-Szinnessy.


6 comments:

  1. "He was a good hater."

    What a good man he must have been!

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  2. LOL I can confirm that he was in fact a good hater. Hilarious stuff to read. He could pound away at someone for misquoting something, and then misquote three things.

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    1. Well, three things is chazuka which makes it permissible.

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    2. .הוא מורה היתר לעצמו ועושה כל העבירות בזדון

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  3. "typically British... "

    uho, and how!

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  4. I have an original letter written by Schiller Szinessy inviting the Master of a Cambridge College to visit his sukkah. And see

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/5675857293/

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