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Comment of the Week

Comments by Y., Insider and others are awarded ‘Comment of the Week’.
June 29, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer

We hereby award “Comment of the Week” to the following intriguing/funny/spot-on comments posted on Unpious this week. Feel free to recognize your own favorite in the comments below!

Dirt Lawyer: If it’s possible to get horny for schmalz herring, that’s what I’ve got.

Y: … actually the folks like Shpitzel have more in common with Avroham Avinu than you do. Like Avroham Avinu, they think for themselves; identify their parents’ irrational beliefs; are, in response, threatened and dealt with by community forces; lose their families and get uprooted from their native communities.

Insider: How does studying one’s work a thousand years after their death make one’s life happier while still alive? Does the future effect the present in some reverse tense?

J.: How did (Orthodox Jews) become representative of Judaism as a whole? Why are they speaking for all of us?

kafhakela: Tell me, in your beis medrash, among the thousands of sforim, is there one, even one, written by a woman? איז וואס האקסטו אין קאפ!

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