the NF and family attended evening hakafot at the local yokel shul --- nothing too offensive occured --- just a lot of men going around and around in circles and women looking on bored. Simchat Torah morning, the NF headed over to the early minyan (start time: 6 AM). The early minyan was standing room only...and very fast. The gabbaim told the chazan for shacharit that he was allowed to sing no more than 2 songs -- hakafot lasted 5 minutes and we zipped through leining. Baal Musaf (Tefillat Geshem) did a nice job and the NF went home (at 8:15 AM) with a big smile on his face.
Adding to the fun was Yoni R's shtick...in a November post from last year, the NF mentioned that if one were to perfrom shtick on Simchat Torah it might as well be original --- like putting peanut butter in the Cohanim's shoes during birkat Cohanim...When the NF finished duchening in shacharit, he went to put on his shoes only to find a surprise as placed there by Yoni R.
The following is a photographic reconstruction of what I found....
Given Yoni R. consistent dedication to this blog, the board has voted 5 to 2 to change his blog psuedoname to something cooler than Yoni R. I request that, you the readers, provide me with feedback on what that cool new name should be.
the options:
1. the Artist formerly known as Yoni R.
2. Big Jim R.
3. Statler
4. The Stam posselizer
A couple of additional items...
Last night, the Baltimore Chop told me of a terrible occurence....At the main minyan at one of the shuls in the neighborhood, the baal koreh, Rabbi Tom Hagen, sang kaddish before maftir to take me out to the ball game. Gong. Simchat Torah is not Purim. No Cracker Jacks for you.
and although we have a year until next year's chagim --- here is an awesome version of kol nidrei as sung by Kol Achai.
--- the NF
4 comments:
I'm votiung for something along the lines of 4 (The Stam posselizer), although it has to be something shorter.
Loves the 6:00 ST Minyan, sorry that I didn't notice Yoni's shtick (I was too busy watching y oen shoes)
PD votes for Statler. Who will be dubbed Waldorf?
The sofer formerly named Yoni R. Would be my pick. As far as the links go if baseball and Kol Achai are both going to get you tube links in one post then it should be the one with them singing the national anthem at Shea Stadium. (don't know how to post the link)
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=_Y0nEewHF0
Hey, my word verification had "pork" in it. Talk about dati light
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