High Holidays Open Thread
Happy New Year to all my fellow MGoJews out there!
The stress and anxiety that I know we are all - to some degree - experiencing these days has unfortunately made this year's holiday feel less joyous and meaningful for me. While my family isn't tremendously observant, we do enjoy the rituals and spirituality connected with many of the Jewish holidays...especially Passover and Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur. It has been disappointing to not be able to fully share these holidays as deeply with our family and friends.
Wishing everyone a better year to come...and a happy, healthy, and sweet new year. L'shanah tovah. May all of us be inscribed in the Book of LIfe.
September 18th, 2020 at 10:05 AM ^
L'Chaim
September 18th, 2020 at 10:06 AM ^
שלום לך ולמשפחתך
September 18th, 2020 at 10:07 AM ^
Congrats and I wish you happiness...........and always remember
September 18th, 2020 at 10:14 AM ^
Happy holiday (not sure what the right greeting is for this) to all who are celebrating!
September 18th, 2020 at 11:15 AM ^
During my years in Ann Arbor, this clueless goy learned "have a lovely Rosh Hashanah" for this holiday and "have an easy fast" or "have a good fast" for Yom Kippur.
September 18th, 2020 at 11:23 AM ^
Mostly spot on!
RH represents the new year in the Hebrew calendar and thus is considered a celebration.
YK is when we atone for our sins and when our fate is sealed for the year...and then we fast...so it is considered to be a much more solemn and serious holiday.
That being said, I welcome and appreciate any sort of acknowledgement of the holiday or greeting from my non-Jewish friends!
September 18th, 2020 at 12:49 PM ^
The LORD bless you and keep you: The LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you: The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
September 18th, 2020 at 2:27 PM ^
And let us say...Amen.
September 19th, 2020 at 10:56 AM ^
Or as my rabbi says, "peace both within your minds and within your hearts."
L'shona tova, everyone!
September 18th, 2020 at 10:17 AM ^
L'Shanah Tovah to all of us observing. May we all be inscribed for good years in the book of life.
September 18th, 2020 at 10:19 AM ^
I'm not Jewish but my family is, and we'll be celebrating tomorrow. L'Shanah Tovah to everyone.
September 18th, 2020 at 10:33 AM ^
The year is 5781, 2020 is a distant memory. COVID-19 persists. Help.
September 18th, 2020 at 2:20 PM ^
But did we beat OSU yet, future boy?
September 18th, 2020 at 10:41 AM ^
May the Schwartz be with you!
September 18th, 2020 at 10:44 AM ^
I'm not Jewish, but this one time, at parochial school, I toured a temple as part of the religious curriculum. So, with that historical background, L'shanah tovah!(??)
In somewhat related news, my previous work locale included a guy that was *this close* to being an ordained Rabbi. He invited me to his new son's Bris, at 10AM, 25 Dec 2018, some 75 miles from my home.
He gave me a few minutes of distress before laughing his ass off at the conundrum...
September 18th, 2020 at 2:24 PM ^
new son's Bris,
It’s a bris. The “new” is implied. So is the “son” for that matter, but of course you can’t rewrite it as “He invited me to his bris.”
September 18th, 2020 at 10:48 AM ^
Shanah Tovah to all who observe!
September 18th, 2020 at 10:55 AM ^
may G-D extend his blessings to all.
September 18th, 2020 at 11:34 AM ^
Dammit, I have to make a brisket using my Wife's Bubbie's recipe. Any brisket not made on the smoker is a waste of a brisket according to this goyim
Charoset for everyone!
September 18th, 2020 at 11:42 AM ^
My go-to recipe for roast brisket, it’s so good
September 18th, 2020 at 1:10 PM ^
Ketchup and Lipton's onion soup mix?
September 18th, 2020 at 1:14 PM ^
Beef stock, diced tomatoes, mini-meatballs, mire -poix. Simmer for 4ish hours
September 18th, 2020 at 2:02 PM ^
No disrespect to my Jewish friends but I am actually about to put a pork butt into the oven for a baby shower we are hosting tomorrow. Meshuggeneh, I know, but we are Catholic. However, I'm confused: shouldn't you have the solemn holy day first, and then get onto the party holy day?
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Diamond runs into his pal Goldberg at the mall.
“Goldberg, it’s been months! How’s that new company going with Silverman?”
“Well, like I told you we formed it, I put in the money and Silverman put in the business experience. Since then, things have changed.”
“Changed? What do you mean?”
“Now Silverman has the money and I have the business experience.”
September 18th, 2020 at 3:38 PM ^
Smoked brisket can be amazing of course, but jewish roasted brisket is very different and can be at least as tasty. I like to use coke, dr pepper, or wine in the sauce. The outside gets crispy and the inside melts in your mouth.
September 18th, 2020 at 11:48 AM ^
shana tova to all the Jewish mgobloggers opting back in for 5781
September 18th, 2020 at 11:55 AM ^
Shana Tova! Services via Zoom will certainly be interesting for sure. We've survived Pharoah, Haman, the Romans, matzah, Maxwell House Haggadahs, Manischewitz and Hedley LaMarr. We'll survive this too!
September 18th, 2020 at 12:15 PM ^
Thought this was going to be a thread about one of my favorite Frasier episodes titled "High Holidays" 
September 18th, 2020 at 12:33 PM ^
All Michigan fans should know that two of the greatest quarterbacks in Wolverine history were Jewish—Benny Friedman '26 (top) and Harry Newman '32 (below).
Friedman was a consensus All-American in '25 and '26, and Newman was All-American in '32, leading the Wolverines to the national championship that season.
Their combined career record as starting QBs was 38-3-2.
The 1925 team that Friedman led went 7-1, shut out seven opponents, and featured the "Benny to Bennie" connection—Friedman to fellow All-American end Bennie Oosterbaan. Michigan lost its only game 3-2 in a legendary upset on a muddy, quagmired Soldier Field to Northwestern. That game very likely cost Michigan an undisputed national championship; Fielding Yost called the 1925 squad "the greatest football team I ever saw in action."
Fellow MGoBlogger dnak438 posted an article about that loss a while back:
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/b1g-history-northwestern-riots-1925
שנה טובה ומתוקה
לכחול
September 18th, 2020 at 2:26 PM ^
And Hayden Epstein!
September 18th, 2020 at 12:41 PM ^
This Catholic guy wishes all of you a joyous New Year!
September 18th, 2020 at 12:52 PM ^
Thanks for posting this!
שנה טובה
Shana tova to all of you. Blessings, may this new year bring us some peace and renewal.
Lord knows we are ready for it.
September 18th, 2020 at 1:15 PM ^
Happy holidays! Try to enjoy them in spite of world events, or maybe more so because of them.
September 18th, 2020 at 1:19 PM ^
Blaze it up, bros
September 18th, 2020 at 2:17 PM ^
Shana Tovah everyone. This is my favorite Rosh Hashanah video of all time. It has Ann Arbor, Michigan football, and a weirdly primitive horn-like instrument (I'm Jewish and have never seen one before). My only complaint is he stepped on the Block M. Hopefully it won't bring bad juju.
https://www.facebook.com/templebethemetha2/videos/1630049227153789
September 18th, 2020 at 4:00 PM ^
Throughout the year, whenever I am on the Diag (I still occasionally will sit along it after grabbing a coffee if I am in Ann Arbor), I am forced to shout "DON'T STEP ON THAT!" to at least one person walking along. A few even look at me like I am an idiot for correcting their course, but that's fine.
September 18th, 2020 at 7:00 PM ^
You'd think they'd know by now.
September 18th, 2020 at 2:24 PM ^
Happy Holidays
September 18th, 2020 at 3:18 PM ^
Shanah Tovah!