Jewish Trivia

[Randomex]

Where can I find the London boys choir tzur mishelo?

I'm having trouble confirming that this exists (via Google).

[Just A Jew]

Where can I find the London boys choir tzur mishelo?

Do you know which album it was on?

[YitzyS]

What is a word that appears in the תורה only in חומש בראשית, and it means 4 different things in 4 different places. (It appears more than 4 times in חומש בראשית, but it does not appear in any other חומש AFAIK.

[yfr bachur]

Where can I find the London boys choir tzur mishelo?

I'm pretty sure its on the Ma Navu album
I have all of the LSJS albums, I'll look for it
PM me if you want me to send you that track...

[YitzyS]

What is a word that appears in the תורה only in חומש בראשית, and it means 4 different things in 4 different places. (It appears more than 4 times in חומש בראשית, but it does not appear in any other חומש AFAIK.

HINT: Two of the meanings are really based on the same thing - a name of a person, and a place named after that person.

[yungermanchik]

HINT: Two of the meanings are really based on the same thing - a name of a person, and a place named after that person.

שכם?

[YitzyS]

שכם?

Yup!

[yungermanchik]

Yup!

שכם שניהם by שם & יפת, the person, the city and what's the 4th
ETA by Yosef שכם אחד על אחיך but only if you learn that it's not the city

[yungermanchik]

Which are the two rarest Haftoras of non-double Parshios?
And of the two, which is leined less in the current century (5701-5800)?

[YitzyS]

שכם שניהם by שם & יפת, the person, the city and what's the 4th
ETA by Yosef שכם אחד על אחיך but only if you learn that it's not the city

This.

I think the simple Pshat is that it means a portion. It can be alluding to the city, but that's not pashut pshat. (If it was, it would not say the word "אחד", no?)

[elazarb]

Which are the two rarest Haftoras of non-double Parshios?
And of the two, which is leined less in the current century (5701-5800)?

1 would have to be parshas miketz

[EliJelly]

1 would have to be parshas miketz

This week we read the הפטורה של פרשת מקץ, last time we did was 20 years ago. Usually שבת פרשת מקץ is still חנוכה and we read הפטורה של שבת חנוכה.

It's the famous story of Shlomo Hamelech's ingenious ruling for the two mothers claiming the live child.

[yungermanchik]

1 would have to be parshas miketz

Mekietz and Pinchas are pretty close, but you are right that in this particular time period, Mikeitz is only 10x and Pinchas is 11x.

[av83]

Not Tzav? only leined in Leap year and purim falls out Thursday or Friday (even less common in Yerushalayim since if Friday then its purim and they lein same haftorah as Zachor)

[yungermanchik]

Not Tzav? only leined in Leap year and purim falls out Thursday or Friday

that happens 14 times in the century IICC

[yfr bachur]

Where can I find the London boys choir tzur mishelo?

I'm having trouble confirming that this exists (via Google).

@simplicity
...went through all the albums looking for it... no luck...
Yesterday it clicks - The track is not called Tzur Mishelo! rather Rachiem - on The Return of the London School Of Jewish Song

[av83]

Not sure how to phrase this as a riddle; but in 1948 (and again in 2043) there wasnt a Shabbos Chanuka.

[aygart]

Not sure how to phrase this as a riddle; but in 1948 (and again in 2043) there wasnt a Shabbos Chanuka.

Of course there was and is

[yungermanchik]

Not sure how to phrase this as a riddle; but in 1948 (and again in 2043) there wasnt a Shabbos Chanuka.

When was the last time that there was no Shabbos Chanuka in a year, when will be the next time?

[av83]

When was the last time that there was no Shabbos Chanuka in a year, when will be the next time?

Better is "When was the last year that didnt have a Shabbos Chanuka- when will be the next?"