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December 16, 2002
A NEW WAY TO GET INTO THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT
What if Christmas was a Jewish holiday?
Have you ever wondered what the classical halakhic sources would say regarding the laws of the holiday?
Me neither. But someone has:
4. THE TREE MUST BE BRIGHT GREEN. BRIGHT RED, or a mixture of green and red, IS ALSO ACCEPTABLE FOR A XMAS TREE,11 BUT BROWN IS NOT. THERE MAY BE ONE BROWN SPOT NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THE TREE,12 BUT IN THE TOP HALF OF THE TREE, EVEN ONE BROWN SPOT WILL INVALIDATE THE TREE. A TRULY PIOUS PERSON WILL MAKE SURE TO BRING ALONG A XMAS TREE EXPERT WHEN HE GOES TO LOOK FOR HIS TREE.13
The authors of this piece really know their stuff. (A special prize goes to whomever knows why the above paragraph is a mixture of capital and lowercase words. Click here for a hint.)
The funniest part of the piece, by far, is the Hebrew letter of approbation from Santa Claus.
(Via Megan McArdle.)
Posted by Dr. Manhattan at 6:34 PM | Permalink
Comments
But of course, the undercase letters could only be the comments of R' Isserles, the Ashkenazic halachic commentator on the Shulchan Aruch.
Posted by: Manhattanite | January 10, 2003 4:09 PM