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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #140 on: November 16, 2023, 10:21:06 PM »
Where can I find the London boys choir tzur mishelo?

I'm having trouble confirming that this exists (via Google).
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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #141 on: November 16, 2023, 10:47:59 PM »
Where can I find the London boys choir tzur mishelo?

Do you know which album it was on?
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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #142 on: November 17, 2023, 01:14:29 AM »
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.

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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #143 on: November 18, 2023, 05:49:46 PM »
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...
« Last Edit: November 18, 2023, 06:40:02 PM by yfr bachur »

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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #144 on: November 18, 2023, 09:22:50 PM »
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.

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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #145 on: November 18, 2023, 09:36:06 PM »
HINT: Two of the meanings are really based on the same thing - a name of a person, and a place named after that person.
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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #146 on: November 18, 2023, 09:52:28 PM »

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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #147 on: November 18, 2023, 09:58:38 PM »
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
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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #148 on: November 18, 2023, 10:28:27 PM »
Which are the two rarest Haftoras of non-double Parshios?
And of the two, which is leined less in the current century (5701-5800)?
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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #149 on: November 18, 2023, 10:29:22 PM »
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?)

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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #150 on: November 19, 2023, 12:01:35 AM »
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

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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #151 on: November 19, 2023, 01:19:59 AM »
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.

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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #152 on: November 19, 2023, 11:01:48 AM »
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.
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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #153 on: November 19, 2023, 05:17:18 PM »
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)

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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #154 on: November 19, 2023, 05:30:13 PM »
Not Tzav? only leined in Leap year and purim falls out Thursday or Friday
that happens 14 times in the century IICC
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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #155 on: November 28, 2023, 03:47:31 AM »
Where can I find the London boys choir tzur mishelo?
I'm having trouble confirming that this exists (via Google).
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...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

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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #156 on: December 10, 2023, 09:29:37 PM »
Not sure how to phrase this as a riddle; but in 1948 (and again in 2043) there wasnt a Shabbos Chanuka.

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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #157 on: December 10, 2023, 09:35:40 PM »
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
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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #158 on: December 10, 2023, 09:39:43 PM »
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?
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Re: Jewish Trivia
« Reply #159 on: December 10, 2023, 09:47:16 PM »
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?"