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Comfort Room [C.R.] Blessing

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בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר יָצַר אֶת
.הָאָדָם בְּחָכְמָה וּבָרָא בוֹ נְקָבִים נְקָבִים חֲלוּלִים חֲלוּלִים
גָּלוּי וְיָדוּעַ לִפְנֵי כִסֵּא כְבוֹדֶךָ שֶׁאִם יִפָּתֵחַ אֶחָד מֵהֶם
אוֹ יִסָּתֵם אֶחָד מֵהֶם אִי אֶפְשַׁר לְהִתְקַיֵּם וְלַעֲמוֹד לְפָנֶיךָ
.אֲפִילוּ שָׁעָה אֶחָת
.בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְהֹוָה רוֹפֵא כָל בָּשָׂר וּמַפְלִיא לַעֲשֹוֹת

||Blessed are You, Hashem, our G-d, King of the universe, Who formed man with wisdom and created within him many passages and many openings (cavities). It is obvious and known before Your Throne of Glory that if but one of them were to be ruptured or if one of them were to be blocked it would be impossible to survive and to stand before You (even for a short period of time). Blessed are You, Hashem, Who heals all flesh and performs wonderously.||


Louis JacobsBefore a man enters the privy he should address a special apology to the angels for his having to take leave of them.
Jewniverse: There's a Jewish practice of saying a blessing before eating any food—a spiritual equivalent of saying thank you to the "chef." But did you know that there's also a blessing for food that's on its way out? 
The blessing for going to the bathroom is known as "asher yatzar" (which translates simply as "The Creator"). Its words don't focus on the act itself, but on the miracle that our bodies are designed precisely, with remarkable systems inside them. The ancient rabbis didn't know the details of how our bodies functioned, but they were aware of how complicated it must be: "If one of those organs would be blocked where it's normally open, or open where it's normally closed, it would be impossible to survive for even a moment," says the prayer. 
The prayer was first mentioned in the Talmud (Berakhot 60b). According to the famed Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, saying it regularly and with intention will bring a person good health and a long life ["and the days of your old age will be like the days of your youth" (Devarim 33:25)].More directly, it's a way of reminding ourselves that we can find greater meaning in every single aspect of our lives—even, well, poop.
Text #1 - Talmud Berachot 62a
It has been taught: R. Akiba said: Once I went in after R. Joshua to a privy, and I learned three things from him:
I learned that one does not sit east and west but north and south
I learned that one evacuates not standing but sitting
I learned that it is proper to wipe with the left hand and not with the right
Ben Azzai said to him: Did you dare to take such liberties with your master?
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AM MOSHE


Moshe: I will provoke their jealousy with a non people, provoke their anger with a foolish nation. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the field of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of rosh, and they have bitter clusters. Their wine is the bitterness of serpents, and the bitterness of the ruthless cobras. Is it not stored up with Me, sealed up in My treasuries? Sing out praise, O you Nations, for His people for He will avenge the blood of His servants, inflict revenge upon His Adversaries, and appease His land [and] His people.
this enchanted rainy night RUNning to meet You through the thick fog trees of people i run out in the street of You turn face to Headlight memory flashes as Your presence crashes through me like a rainy night semi highway face to face You're too much but that's good run me over with Love...run into Your highway, run into Your way, running face to Headlight, run over me...crushing bones and rib-caged now i'm free... and a little dizzy caught around Your wheels i'm exploding.....run over me.
jesus: I just made a vine on the internet. What are you going to do about It? My life is so awkward. Please, kil me.

||Po-sse||


Haaretz Photo by Pavel ShargoUnique flasks dating from the 11th and 9th centuries B.C.E., found at Tel Dor. Dor appears to have been within the territory of the tribe of Asher, though allocated to Menashe (Yehoshua 17:11; Shoftim 1:27). It was one of Shlomo's commissariat districts (Shoftim 1:27; 1 Melakhim 4:11).
The story begins with a series of unique flasks dating from the 11th and 9th centuries B.C.E., found at Tel Dor (Tantura) on the coast south of Haifa. These flasks were small, symmetrically decorated collection vessels with narrow openings with a capacity of about 50 milliliters (about three tablespoons). Their walls were thick, indicating that the liquid they held was precious: effort had been made to keep the vessels from breaking. They held wine or oil that seems to have served a ritual, medical or cosmetic purpose, to which various spices were added. 
Dr. Ayelet Gilboa of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa: Namdar and her colleagues found that 10 of the flasks, which made up more than a third of the flasks we sampled from various sites, had traces of cinnamaldehyde. This molecule is naturally found in significant amounts only in the cinnamon plant, mainly in the bark. In ancient times, the cinnamon tree grew only in southern and southeast Asia. Dvory Namdar, the project’s chief chemist, never found any traces of cinnamon in any of the other ancient vessels she examined before. Like any other organic material, cinnamon bark breaks down almost completely, and the chance of finding it or other spices in an archaeological excavation is extremely slim. We were lucky that someone in Phoenicia apparently started a side business, adding spices such as cinnamon or perhaps also nutmeg (which grew only on the Banda Islands in Indonesia, and we may have found traces of it in the flasks as well) to valuable liquids such as wine or oil. That’s how we learned about the cinnamon trade. It’s also clear that the spices did not go from place to place in the trade networks that were developed and controlled by large political powers such as Assyria or Egypt, or Rome later on. Rather, it was conducted via connections and cooperation between small companies that transported the spices over thousands of kilometers from the east. 
The cinnamaldehyde found inside the vessels is the first archaeological evidence of regular trade between the Levant and southeast Asia between the 11th and ninth centuries B.C.E.

||Barak with some of his best friends||

||are these the exiled children?||
Avi Lebowitz: The pasuk writes by adam, when he was thrown out of gan eden - וישכן מקדם לגן עדן, and by kayin when he was thrown out -וישב בארץ נוד קדמת עדן, both seem to contradict the pasuk ויטע ה' אלקים גן בעדן מקדם, which implies that gan eden was most to the east. How can they be thrown out to the east if they were already on the most eastern spot in the world?

R' Shalomi Eldar pointed out to me that although rashi seems to translate the word קדם in all these places as east, unkelos seems to translate as a place set aside from before. Therefore, according to unkelos both gan eden and the place they were exiled to were set up in advance for that purpose.
Eating Cooking Fooding: We (mom, Barak and I) wanted to make a spacial surprise for dad’s birthday. We know that he’s not the kind of person to enjoy dinner in a fancy restaurant so we decided to make reservations to the most authentic Philippine karaoke bar / restaurant in Israel – Mommy’s place. 
Upon arriving the place we had to get permission to enter as this place is highly secured. I have made reservation for 18 people on a Friday night, but I was was warned it will be very crowded. After waiting outside for couple of minutes we were led inside. 
It’s obviouse the kitchen is secondery to the Kareoke bar and food is made to accompany drinks, mostly fried stuff. Unfortunately the Adobo dish – the only Philippians dish wasn’t available so it was more Thai dishes I guess. Dror brought some fancy bottles of wine that we opened, they were all excellent. Thanks Dror! There were two singers that pretty much took over the mic and sang in English, Thai, Japanese and unrecognized languages. The crowd was cheering, clapping and dancing. The main experience was the unique atmosphere of the place. The music at the beginning was 90′s pop classics (Fun!) that changed to the karaoke theme pretty fast.

So this was a very big success overall, everyone had a great time, especially dad! Keep in mind when going there that reservations are doubtful even when confirmed ahead of time, just arrive pretty early if it’s a weekend night. Also they don’t except credit cards. The owner Yossi was very welcoming and invited us to come to an opening event of his second restaurant in Nataniya. 
Mommy’s Place, מומי’ס פלייס
10 Bene\’y Brak st., Tel Aviv, Israel
03-5371875
Type: Asian, Filipino

Romantic? No Fancy? No Reservations? No Casual? Yes With Children? No Business Meeting? No

Price (Full meal per person): 50-100
Fix menu (Lunch / Dinner): 39/45/57

Mahalya: Just your average Filipino-Israeli

Mahalya: My dad would have loved this exhibit. Vishniac & Chim, jewish photographers, on view

Walang ligaya sa lupa na hindi dinilig ng luha.

Filipino Proverb: There is no earthly bliss not watered by tears.

Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.