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I know I keep saying "I'm back," and "NO, really, I'm back." And then, "Okay... NOW I'm back."I keep thinking of the Robin Williams Live at the Met routine about Muammar al-Gaddafi: Here's a man who had the audacity to say"This is the line of death. You cross it, you die." {Pause}"Okay, you cross this line, you die." {Pause} "Okay, youcross this line, you die." "This line, you die."

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Grumble grumble grumble.As of about a month ago, if you did a Google search for "Orthodox Jewish Father," this site would come up as your first hit. Not least because whenever I commented elsewhere, I would put in a Google Wangle, where the comment would end as follows:{insightful, pithy comment}--FrumDadGoogle Wangle: Orthodox Jewish FatherThe link, obviously, would be to this blog right

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Blah blah blah Torah. Yaakov avinu (our father) and favoring one sibling over another and sibling rivalry and fairness. Blah blah blah deep Torah about joy and sorrow and mourning the destruction of the Temple and celebrating in times of happiness.I haven’t been blogging for oh, the last nine months or so because every time I’d sit down and try to write about some profound Torah concept I’d

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Substantive post, no really, any minute now. really...But right now, I have to say...SVGHH(Something Very Good Has Happened)Something... Wonderful.There's been a glitch, but I feel confident that it's only a minor one.Mazal Tov.--FDUPDATE: I told you it was just a minor glitch.PS: Welcome Visitors! I've had a serious uptick in hits, most coming from Danae's site. Sorry I don't have anything

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"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."Samuel Johnson.Sorry for the disappearing act. First of all, I've been extraordinarily busy. I got a new job a couple of months ago, and they're just pounding me.Also, there's a lot bouncing around in my head, and it's kinda like when ten people try to get out of one small door...With any

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I realize it's been a while since I've posted for real. I'm feeling too low about it to even apologize, if that makes any sense.But I wanted to tag this post, over at Willow Tree.It was like stumbling across a fragment of perfect sea-glass. Unexpected and precise.--FD

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This is a little bit off topic, but needs to be said.I've got this monster project that's coming to fruition this week, and for the past month or so I've been something of an absentee husband and father. I cleared this with MHW before I committed to the project, but that didn't make it any less difficult for her to pretty much single-handedly hold down the fort while I was off doing my thing (or

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About a week ago I had to move some things in the house from over here to over there. In the process I accidentally left one of the electrical outlets formerly occupied by a lamp plug from "over here" exposed. I know, I know. Call DYFUS! I'm a bad man. Anyway, as I'm coming back from "over there," I turned the corner and saw Rachel standing next to the outlet, standing very still, with her

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The title of this post really deserves an excellent, introspective essay about the nature of rhyming in the Torah, and how that relates to Rachel's speech development. But I just wanted to post, quickly, and apologize to all for my absence. And I didn't want to let all of December go by without at least a blip on the screen. So this is the blip. I'm sorry for my absence; It started out with

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As some may have noticed (not many, but some), I've been away from the blogiverse for a while, or at least on limited visitation. I may, eventually, explain why. Probably not, since it's not that important. And the election thing was occupying a lot of front-burner brain space for a while, too. So, for instance, I didn't even know that Julie over at A Little Pregnant was, well, more than a

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1. "Ze ha-yom asah Ado-shem, nagila v'nismecha bo." This is the day that Hashem has made, let us exult and be joyful in it. I don't think I even need to post the link, as I'm sure anyone could guess why I'm being all exultant and joyful. Others have quoted Proverbs 11: "at the death of the wicked, there is joyful song." That too. Of course, this search is more appropriate, but comes up with

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This blog is emphatically not a political blog. It is not even, so much as can be helped, a blog about my daughter, who (if I haven't mentioned it, I will now) is perfect, beautiful, wonderful in all ways, and about whom I could easily blog daily if not hourly. It is a blog about the intersection of my identities as Orthodox Jew and Father. It is about (as I have no doubt mentioned a number of

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I know it's been a while; the yom-tovim (yomim-tov?)[fn1] have been keeping me offline for the past few weeks. I've got a logjam of entries in my head, but only time right now to punch out a quick one.[fn1:] yom = day, tov = good. It's a way of saying holiday. The difficulty I'm having with the plural is because the gramatically correct Hebrew is to pluralize the "day," making yomim-tov (good

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Recently, my family and I were privileged to be at the Shabbos table of Rabbi B. and his family. Actually, we spent a couple days with them as part of our vacation. Rabbi B. is a chinuch[fn1] professional and an extraordinary father, and spending any time with him always gives me something to think about.[fn1:] "chinuch" roughly, and incorrectly translates as "education." The problem is that

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No, I didn't trip and fall off the continent. No I haven't given up on this blog. In fact, my problem's the opposite; I have this off-topic political post I want to write, and every time I start drafting it I get so wound up I end up making no sense. Even thinking about it now, I'm getting all... grrrrr... Anyway. I'll probably do an interim post because Rachel's been so awesome and

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Orlando:     Who stays [Time] withal? Rosalind:     With lawyers in the vacation; for they sleep between term and term, and then they perceive not how Time moves. William Shakespeare, As You Like It act 3, sc. 2 (Thank you, Bartleby.) Which is to say. . . I'm going on a little vacation. I don't know if I'll be able to get in front of a computer for an extended period of time until after Labor

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blah blah blah... "real content" coming soon, blah blah blah.And now, the news.As of checking my email today, something has happened that I knew would happen, but by which I am still pleasantly surprised.I have been totally found out. Viz, this email send to my FrumDad account: Dear [MY REAL NAME], Good to hear your voice, albeit in blog form-your "DoubleThink and Prayer" was

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As I type right now I can't find the full thread of posts[fn1] back and forth over a number of different blogs, but there's been some talk recently on other blogs about the manner in which bloggers -- especially male, anonymous bloggers -- refer to their wives.[fn1:] The first time Google's ever let me down, search-wise that is. I ended up finding the Heimishtown link noted below on Yahoo!

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Hey, you. Mr. pcp278589pcs.owngsm01.md.comcast.net, who came by on August 15 at about 10pm. Mr. Google search for "frum girls naked." Move along, buddy. That's not what we're selling here. --FD PS: For the record, the Google search picked up this post. I can see how the Google excerpt was a little misleading, if you're hunched over your computer, in a crazed and desparate search for

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[Editor's note: this opens with a lot of theory, and takes a while to spool over to the more particular stuff. Since the "editor" in "editor's note" is sort of facetious, I'm not doing anything about it. Get me a book deal and a real editor and we can talk. Click here to skip the wind-up and go straight to the pitch, but that's cheating. ] Being an Orthodox Jew requires a sort of odd

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New Content! I want my new content! Where is it? (Work x Busy^Very) + (Family issues) = One of the worst weeks ever. But with Tisha B'Av past, and the countdown to Elul... Hopefully this week. --FrumDad UPDATE Someone pointed out to me that I wasn't being very fair to myself. I haven't put up a new post recently, but I've been a commenting fiend this past week or so. Probably the most

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Jackpot! Apparently it's not enough to include subtle digs at Protocols as a whole. I need to be irritated by something peculiar to Luke Ford himself. Which isn't tough. I realize that blogging about Luke just feeds into his madness. So I'll stop now. --FrumDad

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This is more in the way of an experiment than anything else. Apparently my mention of Luke Ford here (which was, in turn, a reponse to this) was enough to get me mentioned on the consistently trafficked (though only rarely worthwhile) Protocols blog. I'm curious if this post will get picked up over there as well. I was on Car Talk once. My friends and I joked that it was going to come out of

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Almost every morning, as part of the morning ritual I've mentioned before, I pick Rachel up out of her crib, say "Modeh Ani," change her diaper, and then take her into the bathroom to "do negel vasser." (Do you believe I couldn't find an adequate link for that term?) Negel Vasser is the common term for a ritual washing of the hands that Judaism requires at certain points during the day. I

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I don't really get the joke in this post by Luke Ford over at Protocols, though I am a bit concerned about Luke Ford's interest in my body.   But it's bringing some eyeballs, so maybe there's an upside.   Welcome.  This blog is primarily about how being an Orthodox Jew informs my being a parent, and how being a parent informs my Orthodoxy.  My most recent substantive post is a look at the

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