Can you believe it? Three whole years of having this virtual online community for Dinner.I hope you've been entertained and I hope I've left you smiling, or thinking, or both.
So much has happened in those three years.
I've made so many new friends through this blog and I've learned many new things. I've enjoyed having many of you to "actual" dinners as well. I hope to continue all of this.
Even if you've never commented before, please consider leaving a comment on this special day. I know you're enjoying the blog because you keep coming back, but actually writing something helps give me the encouragement to continue.
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Mazel tov! Three is a good number. Ad mayeh v'esrim, at least. And then some.
Mazal Tov on turning three! Some homes (like your blog) are so warm and welcoming that guests love returning there time after time. Keep "cooking" up those posts and I'll be waiting on the blog doorstep to enjoy them.
mazal tov! Keep the posts coming! Like I wrote you a while back, your blog is "reverently irreverent" and a very fun read!
congrats. i really love your blog. not to sound crazy/stalkerish. but you really give me a great fresh view of the individuals in the breurs community. it is so refreshing to see a jewish mother so excited for the chagim/shabbat/guests. you inspired me to make a tubshvat themed meal this week! please continue writing and sharing your love of cooking/hosting. you have really kept this (now older single and bit bitter) UWS girl inspired!
So when is the Upsheren? BTW, the Yalkut Shimoni - a Rav in FFam during the 13th century - is the earliest mentions of the custom of Upsheren at the age of 3. You can find it in Parshas kedoshim by the Parsha of Orloh!
Leora,
ProfK,
Gavi,
Anonymous -
It is comments like these that make me feel that the blog is truly a truly worthwhile endeavor.
ProfK - Your poetic use of the English language onces again warms my heart.
Gavi - I don't recall you saying that before. Thanks for reiterating :)
Anonymous - You've touched me deeply. You don't sound stalkerish at ALL. In fact, I'd love to have you to dinner ;)
happy blogoversary!
bekkishe- you should see what freud wrote about the upsherin (something to do with oedipus coplex and that the mother had to hide the child so that the father wouldn't kill his competition)
MT - Upsherin has naught to do with yeks!
HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY!! 3 YEARS OLD...you're a BIG girl now!!
Happy blogiversary :-)
Three? Whoa, that's a lot.
Very creative of you to use a cake like that. ;-)
Mazel tov!
Happy Blogiversary!
May you have many more!
I like the way you make the shabbos table so warm and welcoming with all your guests and I love the pictures on your sidebar...and your blog! It's great!
Congratulations! You are one of those people who help make the blogosphere a friendly place to hang out. Looking forward to 3 more years!
mazel tov. love your blog. keep it up
The source for the Minhag is a Rav of FFam. That can't be denied or refuted. Whether it is a Yekkisher Minhog or not, I can't be sure. Just because Rabbi Hamburger doesn't discuss it in his Seforim, doesn't automatically make it pasul.
And what makes you think he doesn't discuss it??
'Yekkishe bekishe' (is that an oxymoron by the way? :) -
The Yalkut Shimoni does not mention the Sepharadic/Hassidic custom of upsherin. What he does mention is something else, namely the idea of starting a young boy in limud haTorah at the age of three. There is no mention there in the YS of haircutting. The haircutting thing is a later addition, seemingly from non-Jewish sources originally (various non-Jewish cultures have customs connected to haircutting. One prominent example is Hindus, who are known for their upsherins, which brought about the Indian sheitel crisis a while ago), which some Hassidim have attempted to graft on to the earlier Jewish minhag.
So the upsherin custom is not Yekkish and not Ashkenazic, and not originally Jewish bichlal.
P.S. It is discussed at length in Shorshei Minhag Ashkenaz III, credit to which is due for some of the above.
Mazal Tov and Kudos for keeping it up for so long.
Happy blogiversary
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