tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709895675451005512.post2234557616699478643..comments2024-02-07T13:35:48.603-05:00Comments on Musings of a Jewish Bookseller: Only in a bookstore: an unusual reason a customer is interested in a bookUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709895675451005512.post-13528131731765869512016-07-26T12:50:01.787-04:002016-07-26T12:50:01.787-04:00May I ask what this jumper dress is called in Hebr...May I ask what this jumper dress is called in Hebrew?voodooqueen126https://www.blogger.com/profile/06270332861697426196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709895675451005512.post-65577080914990368092014-03-02T21:11:44.329-05:002014-03-02T21:11:44.329-05:00If the version of the story of the death of the Ch...If the version of the story of the death of the Choze that appears in David Assaf's book Ne'ehaz Basevach is correct, the Choze might in fact coming down to this world as a dybbuk looking for peace from his punishment for his committing suicide.<br /> "the most vulgar document published by Assaf is quite clearly the tale recounting the “fall” of the famed founder of Polish Hasidism, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhak Horowitz (1745-1815), popularly known as the khoyze, or seer, of Lublin. What is known is that sometime during the celebration of Simchat Torah in 1814, the severely inebriated seer fell, or more likely jumped, out the second-story window of his room above the Hasidic shtibl where he held court. Like the affair of Rabbi Moshe’s conversion to Christianity, Hasidic hagiography has managed to transform what was either a drunken mishap or a deliberate suicide attempt into a mystical affair signifying a failed attempt to hasten the messiah’s arrival"<br />David G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709895675451005512.post-40764457404349237762014-03-02T11:42:00.394-05:002014-03-02T11:42:00.394-05:00Commission her to paint a portrait of him.
Or at...Commission her to paint a portrait of him. <br /><br />Or at least get a description for us! ;-)Readingnoreply@blogger.com