tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post5370984160782714176..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: On Reverend's Handbooks and Bar Mitzvah speeches for American boys of a century ago.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-21569013764162571632012-01-02T21:32:04.279-05:002012-01-02T21:32:04.279-05:00The humility of these speeches is incredible. Spee...The humility of these speeches is incredible. Speeches today are all about how great we are; these are all about how thankful we are. At least the Jews I surround myself with today have lost grasp of humility (and I count myself in on the problem too!).MorganFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-33440983114619964462012-01-01T20:05:42.909-05:002012-01-01T20:05:42.909-05:00Man, what does it take to get an answer around her...Man, what does it take to get an answer around here? I was curious to know what the slave girl said.DFhttp://www.yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-22577116632809260452011-12-29T06:42:38.977-05:002011-12-29T06:42:38.977-05:00I don't know how to read this stuff!I don't know how to read this stuff!Bar Mitzvah Invitationshttp://www.batbarmitzvahinvitations.com/discount-bar-mitzvah-invitations-adorned-with-photosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-11004465403270899962011-12-27T13:08:12.045-05:002011-12-27T13:08:12.045-05:00As a teenager I once went out with a few other yes...As a teenager I once went out with a few other yeshiva guys to bury an old Russian woman in a "Potters Field" (depressing to see some of the relatives driving up in nice cars, but that's OT). Some rabbi drafted into service gave a pretty moving hesped under the circumstances, those being a highly secular audience and him having never heard of this woman before.<br /><br />I was pretty impressed, but an older guy there told me it was no big deal - he thought there were these rabbi's handbooks that had hespedim for such circumstances word-for-word.Fotheringay-Phippsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-48337304760568755892011-12-27T10:38:24.948-05:002011-12-27T10:38:24.948-05:00"Address at the engagement of an orphan girl&..."Address at the engagement of an orphan girl" is appropriate and extremely moving. Thank you!LI Readernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-75980173694993531522011-12-27T09:15:22.087-05:002011-12-27T09:15:22.087-05:00Thank you for sharing this, Fred. It's interes...Thank you for sharing this, Fred. It's interesting. I don't know why you assured us that Selikowitz wasn't an ignoramus--the speeches themselves make this clear.<br /><br />I was briefly nonplussed--downright minussed, in fact--by the word "talk" on the second line of p. 99. I finally figged out that it was probably a typo for "task."Mike Koplowhttp://www.considerthesource2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-76700599234718717602011-12-27T08:34:07.195-05:002011-12-27T08:34:07.195-05:00Handbooks are always a fun thing to see,especially...Handbooks are always a fun thing to see,especially from time periods. I really appreciate this post!Lakewood Falling Downhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14483392684657880997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-10933604328872705842011-12-26T23:29:32.076-05:002011-12-26T23:29:32.076-05:00Do you know this to be true at all any articles re...Do you know this to be true at all any articles relating to it or maybe you can do one thanxs<br />http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/3949/riddle-aruch-hashulchan-chanukah-story-missing-a-wordAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-9811886164188616942011-12-26T19:07:55.397-05:002011-12-26T19:07:55.397-05:00The proposed speeches are mercifully brief!The proposed speeches are mercifully brief!mbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-78984258162670442642011-12-26T16:07:26.344-05:002011-12-26T16:07:26.344-05:00i love those reverends handbooks. i have druckerma...i love those reverends handbooks. i have druckerman's and i think selikovitch's (also have his "torat buddha"). and the kesuba we used was originally printed to be used by one of these american reverends (even inludes nikkud in case he can't otherwise read the aramaic)abbasrantingshttp://abbasranings.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com