Monday, July 29, 2013

And We Have A Winner!

There was an astonishingly large response to yesterday's contest. Aside from all the comments on the blog, my inbox was flooded with ideas. Some of them were ingenious! I took the best elements of several of them and combined them for the following:


Thanks to everyone for their input!

Right now, it's 4.15am, and I'm heading out to fly to Zambia. I'm not sure how much ability I'll have to post over the next few days. Don't forget that you can subscribe to receive this blog via email, using the subscription form on the right-hand side of this webpage.

Meanwhile, since this Shabbos is parashas Re'ay, I'll leave you with a photo of a nesher that I took yesterday. For more on this identity of the nesher, see this essay.


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3 comments:

  1. Michael SedleyJuly 29, 2013 at 8:18 AM

    Love It!

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  2. Moshe LaymoreJuly 31, 2013 at 12:13 AM

    Rav Eliashiv zatzal said Rabbi Slifkin might be one of the lamed vov tzaddikim. That's not treif.
    Please show us some of the runners up.

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  3. HaRazieliAugust 1, 2013 at 10:03 AM

    "Finally I've found some good meat with a badatz hechsher."

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