What are your two favorite things to wear?
Not looking as cool as this dude, but certainly as comfortable, sweats are my favourite. I’ve cheated a bit, because the top with a hoodie and the bottoms with an elasticated waist makes two items.
As I’ve aged, comfort has taken priority over fashion. Having said that, you can’t deny that the chap in the picture looks the epitome of cool. So the two functions can be married together.
In the UK, legions of youths on the street wear hoodies and joggers. It’s the street wear of the gang banger and casual thief. I am neither by the way.
The number one item of clothing appearing on CCTV is the hoodie and joggers. They are usually captured running away carrying a TVset or similar high value filched item.
So my favourite items of clothing are the ones favoured by petty criminals. That’s unfortunate. More unfortunate is that if you have ever had the dubious pleasure of visiting or being incarcerated in a UK prison, then the hoodie and joggers will be familiar. Certainly the jogging bottoms are pretty common….in grey only. Very Stylish.
In Facebook Jail, by the way, where I am currently doing time on remand, I’m allowed to wear what I like.
I knocked this up for a laugh for yesterday’s post.
My advice to those of you youngsters risking sterilisation or Thrush from wearing skinny jeans—is don’t. We don’t care what you look like, you’ll look fabulous in a bin bag, youth is on your side!
Clothes maketh the man, “apparel oft proclaims the man”. (Hamlet, Shakespeare)
This of course is very true—appearances are important when you’re young. Looking your best is important, but these days, looking like everyone else seems more of a priority.
Right now, my favourite items of clothing are fashionable, so I can slouch down to my local store in what I lounge about in around the house. Nobody bats an eyelid. I’m happy!
Hilarious 😂 xxxx
I am not a fashion icon. 🕺😂
Some of these topics, honestly!
They’re prompts only…
Heads up ..There are two MG pages running. One with 5 subscribers…your post about Schnitzel but not about your joggers ( which I have commented on, for ref) and this one…..
Yes, I thought that one was disabled, I didn’t want to delete it completely but it looks like I may have to .
Thanks, just made that private until I decide what to do with it. Thanks again for that. My paperbacks arrived today for the Walking Towards Myself book. It was the first proper book I ever committed to write, and to see it in print really brought a lump to my throat . It looks beautiful. Even though I say do myself! I’ll post a pic later.
So that’s live and for sale now on Amazon. I did a bit of voluntary work yesterday at the village xmas fair and sold out of Camino copies too!
Yay, sold out of Camino!…How exciting x
Congrats getting another book out there…x
Kiddushin: 2nd sugya of the Gemara on the Av Mishna.
דף ג. אבל צריך לחזור — דתנן: וקונה את עצמה בשתי דרכים. מניינא דרישא למעוטי מאי מניינא דסיפא למעוטי מאי מניינא דרישא למעוטי חופה?
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This question over חופה addressed in Aramaic, the language of the kabbalah. The mention of חופה, particularly significant to contrast with the language of the Mishna האשה נקנית בשלש דרכים. Just as the Gemara interprets the language of the Mishna as a restriction on an immature baby so too the Gemara likewise restricts חופה as a means to achieve the mitzva of קידושין, even applicable to women who have developed the minimum of maturity.
Why the cloak and dagger Gemara Aramaic methodology? The Gemara often engages in multiple layers of interpretation, allowing for various readings of a Mishnaic text. This encourages rigorous debate and facilitates a more profound understanding of legal and ethical principles. The use of Aramaic can create a distancing effect that emphasizes the complexity of legal reasoning. Maturity critical in Jewish law, where varying degrees of maturity and capability significantly impact legal status.
In Jewish law, חופה signifies the act of marriage, while the כתובה protect the dignity of the woman. Marriage contracts, they outline the husband’s obligations to his wife. The chuppah ceremony serves not only as a public declaration of the marriage but also as a condition for the validity of the ketubah. The chuppah serves to formalize the marriage, making the couple halachically husband and wife. A man cannot achieve the mitzva of קידושין through חופה. Chuppah is a key ceremony that marks the beginning of the marital relationship.
The chuppah, crucial as it symbolizes the couple’s new home and serves as the public declaration of their union. It represents a shift from individual status to marital status. During the chuppah ceremony, the couple stands under a canopy, signaling the formalization of their marriage. This act is vital for the halachic recognition of the couple as husband and wife. The ketubah publicly read while the couple stands under the חופה. The mitzva of חופה learns from tallit wherein a man covers his head and upper body when he dav’vens tefillat קריא שמע. The בנין אב יסודי (hence the Aramaic language) the Mishkan.
The Torah instructs that if a person dies within a tent, all contents within the tent become Av tuma. The mitzva of קידושין makes a logical דיוק\inference. Standing in the shade of the חופה או טלית an Israel can elevate a toldot קום ועשה מצוה שלא צריך כוונה להזימן גרמא מצוה שנזקוק כוונה. Time-oriented Av commandments constitute as a מלאכה which creates יש מאין מלאכים. Toldot secondary commandments do not create מלאכים.
The mitzva of both חופה וטלית like a tent can elevate secondary Torah precedent commandments to Av tohor time-oriented commandments. A huge chiddush. The chuppah represents a significant moment in Jewish marriage, symbolizing the establishment of a home. It is a public and ceremonial act that signifies the formalization of a couple’s commitment. The טלית worn only by married men in Ashkenazi tradition, during tefillah. And signifies the commandments, aiming to elevate the wearer spiritually, to remember the 3 separate oaths sworn by the Avot to cut the brit which eternally creates the Chosen Cohen seed of the Avot.
The concept that both chuppah and tallit can be likened to the בנין אב Mishkan – the designated space for the revelation of the Shekinah. This suggests that by engaging in acts of chuppah and wearing a tallit, individuals can imbue תולדות קום ועשה ושב ולא תעשה מצוות וגם כל ההלכות שבתוך התלמוד into Av Torah time-oriented commandments which possess the holiness to create מלאכים יש מאין.
Herein the distinction between the white and blue tzitzit of tallit. The white threads cause a man to remember all the mitzvot of the Torah revelation at Sinai, (inclusive of the Oral Torah Talmudic halachot) cause Israel to remember the 3 distinct oaths sworn by the Avot wherein the Brit eternally obligates HaShem to create the chosen Cohen people in all generations despite pogroms or the recent terrible Shoah Wilderness generation שאין להם חלק בעולם הבא.
The chuppah, while critical in marriage ceremonies, serves as a subsidiary or supporting aspect to the primary methods of acquisition. Chuppah and ketubah create a legal foundation for marriage, establishing principles that protect the dignity of the wife. The tallit provides a constant reminder of the commandments, paralleling the functions of the chuppah by creating a space for divine interaction. Both the chuppah and tallit serve as בניני אבות to understand the revelation of the Mishkan, they all, so to speak, create sacred spaces for the Shekinah. The white threads cause a father to remember the oaths sworn by the Avot. The Techelet threads of the tallit cause the children born into the future to likewise remember the oaths sworn by the Avot to cut the oath brit which continuously creates the Chosen Cohen people.
מדרש רבה פרשה ט:ד — רבי חמא בר חנינא ורבי יונתן: רבי חמא בר חנינא אמר משל למלך שבנה פלטין ראה אותה וערבה לו. אמר פלטין פלטין הלואי תהא מעלת חן לפני בכל עת בשם שהעלית חן לפני בשעה זו. כך אמר הקב”ה לעולמו עולמי עולמי. הלואי תהא מעלת חן לפני בכל עת כשם שהעלית חן לפני בשעה זו. רבי יונתן אמר למלך שהיה משיא את בתו ועשה לה חופה ובית סיידה וכיירה וציירה. וראה אותה וערבה לו. אמר לה בתי הלואי תהיה החופה הזאת מעלת חן לפני בכל עת כשם שהעלית חן לפני בשעה הזו. כך אמר הקב”ה לעולמו עולמי עולמי. הלואי תהא מעלת חן לפני בכל עת כשם שהעלית חן לפני בשעה הזו
The 5th Oral Torah middah employed in this context as “found favor in my eyes”. Hence, may the Kallah find favor in the eyes of her new Husband like the musical Play: Wicked — ‘I have been changed for “GOOD”‘. Good in this context means תמיד or “permanently”.
Shalom & Howdy from Israel