DAMMIT I'M ALREADY HUNGRY: the official Yom Kippur Kvetching thread- Page 2

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 12:42am

Oh, no! I didn't think you did. I've never noticed that about wearing white, either! But, then again, I grew up in a strangely liberal temple, yet one that keeps a lot of strict tradition without being super-conservative. Weird combination. Amazing experience.

Updated On: 10/13/05 at 12:42 AM

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 12:45am

That's interesting! Keep up with the religious talk - I find it really fascinating. I'm just gonna make some rice pilaf in the mean time.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 12:47am

Tiff - you know that one of the most common ways to break fast (besides bagels and lox) is Chinese food....

[Popular]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 12:49am

Well, you guys on the east coast have 3 hours on me... you can come here 4pm my time when I'm about to leave for Neilah and let me know how nice the quiches and the soups are.


edit...oh yeah, the chinese food! Us Jews just LOVE Chinese food! Make sure to write that one down Tiff, that one is a keeper. Updated On: 10/13/05 at 12:49 AM

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 12:52am

I'm in school...so here's my day tomorrow:

8:05 am - reading for class
9:20 am - Class/Quiz
10:50 am - Nap
6:00 pm - get dinner
6:30 - rehearsal
7:30 - eat dinner

That;s right, I plan on a nap from 10:50-5-ish...I can't eat lunch anyway!
Updated On: 10/13/05 at 12:52 AM

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 12:52am

BSO just IMed me to pass on the same sentiment. What gives?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 12:58am

My family has this tradition of ordering Chinese food on Christmas Eve and everyone always tells us how Jewish that is. Actually, we're just lazy and don't want to have to worry about preparing food and washing dishes afterwards.

Good luck y'all and remember, it could be worse. You could be Muslim and have to fast for a month.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 12:59am

I thought that they eat at night during Ramadan...

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 1:13am

Yeah, they do - they get to eat way early before sunrise and after sunset.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 1:16am

Thought so, Tiff. Thanks!

Couldn't you just say...between sunrise and sunset...from dusk to dawn...? LOL.

(Now that I named a song from a Jewish musical and a movie about vampires to explain the fasting during Ramadan....)

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 1:24am

Muslims can eat at night, but it does get pretty hard after awhile, mainly because it's so different from the schedule your body is used to functioning on (I fasted once with my friends). They also can't have sex or masturbate for the entire month.

Updated On: 10/13/05 at 01:24 AM

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:20am

Okay, getting back to the beginning of this thread ...

We break the fast with challah french toast. It owns my friggin' life.

..We kind of cheated last night by eating some schnekens(or however they're spelled) ... but I'm gonna try today, really!

...I want food.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:22am

WHY DID YOU POST THIS?

Everything has smelled like butter to me since this morning. Also, I had to do a presentation in class and found my hands were shaking like someone on 6 cups of coffee.

AND YES I'M HUNGRY.

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:23am

I might have to resort to eating Anthony Rapp.

[liotte]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:31am

This thread is really funny.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:35am

Let me get this straight, being the heathen that I am.
You offer up a fast to prove to God how worthy you are of good fortune for the following year. You fast to reflect on the solemnity of the holy day. So you can’t have a sandwich but you can come on a silly message board and whine about how hungry you are and make stupid jokes about Chinese food and French toast? This makes so much sense. Now go have breakfast and get on with what is important to you about this day. And people ask me what I have against organized religion.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:37am

I might have to resort to eating Anthony Rapp.

Oh that is so funny! Keep 'em coming!

[liotte]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:39am

Technically, you aren't supposed to come on the computer either. Or use electronics, or write, or work, or even tear toilet paper. But I think Yenta is one of the only ones who is religious enough to actually observe Yom Kippur in that way.

I'm reform, and about as liberal as you can get. So I do whatever I want, which today, does not include fasting or going to temple. Actually, I don't fast or go to temple any day, holiday or shabbat or whatever.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:43am

So basically, God will forgive these people if they slip and post on a message board, but having a power bar is worse?

And Liotte,does that mean you are basically just a person who has some kind of faith, but no affiliation?

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:47am

the nice thing about being a non-practicing Jew is that I can now go eat my blueberry muffin

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:50am

"On Yom Kippur the decision is made final, so to speak, so we try to make ourselves as close to resembling angels as possible...therefore the fasting. Cause yeah, angels don't eat."

I hate to break thousands of years of Jewish tradition, but in fact the Bible does speak about angels eating. It says that Jews wandering in the wilderness ate angels' food. Psalm 78:25

[liotte]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:50am

On Yom Kippur, you ask for repentance for all your sins- against God, against others, against yourself. If you repent, then the slate is wiped clean and you can be inscribed in the Book of Life for the year. So if you screw up, you can always ask for forgiveness next year and be put back in the Book. You aren't supposed to do that though. I guess the same is in Catholicism, that if you confess your sins before you die, you can go to Heaven. But while most try to do it every week or at least pretty frequently, if you confess on your deathbed, then you're still ok. Feel free to correct me anyone if you disagree.

In regards to myself, I've been a superjew for my entire life- went to Jewish day school, dad is a rabbi, president of youth group, worked in synagogues for my whole life, have a masters in Jewish education, etc. Now that I am no longer working in a temple (as of July 1), I'm taking a break from the religious aspects, which I was never too crazy about in the first place. I'm more of a cultural and community Jew now- I like Jewish food, I go Israeli dancing, I speak Hebrew, I love being a part of the Jewish community- but the spiritual aspects, not so much.

(wow, that was long, sorry)

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:58am

I'm fasting. Not as hard as I expected, but then, I'm nowhere near food right now.

[Plum]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 11:09am

Yes, Sueleen, I'm posting on the silly message board. I also went to hours of services, walked in the rain without an umbrella, and thought over the past week about exactly all the things I've done wrong this year and made apologies accordingly. I couldn't follow all the Sabbath rules if I tried- there isn't always someone around to open the door for me. So save me the holier-than-thou (or you're-not-holy-enough) lecture.

Heaven forbid someone tries to deal with hunger pangs with humor.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 11:21am

Oh I am not "Holier than thou", I just find it kind of silly to take all this so seriously that you can't eat, but come on here and basically complaining about your sacrifice for your beliefs. Keep your sacrifices between you and God. It seems like it is more of a competition of "who's suffering more", or, "I can go ONE day..." "Yea? Well, I can go a day and a HALF!"
It seems that it doesn't really mean that much to the people on this thread, that is all I am saying.