Sunday the 28th

 

                MILK!  COWS!  DAIRY!  

1.      All 50 states in the U.S. have dairy farms.

 

2.      U.S. dairy farms produce roughly 21 trillion gallons of milk annually.

 

3.      Dairy farmers are paid by the gallon.  

 

4.      Less than 50%  percent of all U.S. households purchase milk.

 

5.      The average American consumes almost 25 gallons of milk each year.

 

6.      It takes 1 pound of milk to make one pound of cheese.

 

7.      It takes 12 pounds of whole milk to make one gallon of ice cream.

 

8.      It takes 21.8 pounds of milk to make one pound of butter.

 

9.      The average dairy cow weighs about 14,000 lbs.

 

10.   Cows have  64 teeth, 32 on the bottom, 32 on the top, most of them are molars. 

 

11.    Cows have an stunted  sense of smell, and can only smell something less than six feet away.

 

12.   A cow eats 90–100 pounds of food and drinks about 35 gallons of water (the equivalent of a bathtub full) every day.

 

13.   A cow spends about 6 hours eating every day.

 

14.   There are approximately 90 million dairy cows in the U.S.

 

15.   Only 15% of the calcium needs of the U.S. population are supplied by milk and dairy products.

 

16.   Cows can not see the color blue as they lack the blue “cone” or retina receptor. 

 

What's a SHEVUOS?   

 

https://www.bimbam.com/judaism-101/shavuot/

Hebcal and the time to get sad in summer

             

 

	YOM KIPPUR	TISHA B’AV	MINOR FAST
START TIME	Sunset	Sunset	Sunrise
END TIME	Sunset	Sunset	Sunset
Eating or drinking?	Duh.	No	Guess.
Working	No	Hope not	Yes
Leather Shoes	No	No	Yes
Perfume or Cologne	No	No	Yes
Greeting People	Yes	No	Yes
Torah Study	Yes	No	Yes
Bathing	No	No	Yes

Calendar Period leading up to 9th of Av	Practices to get sad  (some do all, most do some)
The Three Weeks (17th of Tammuz to 9th of Av)	No weddings (pretty universal), No live music,   No haircuts
The Nine Days (from Rosh Chodesh Av)	The above,  plus: no eating meat, no wine or grape juice (aside from Shabbat), no planting seeds or saplings, no shaving, no new decorating the home.
The week where Tisha B’av falls Shavuah She’khal Bo	The above, plus: no swimming or bathing for pleasure, no freshly laundered or dry cleaned clothes, no buying new clothes

         

 

  איכה!?  Aichah!? How can it be!?

That lonely sits the city, once teeming with people!

She that was great among nations is as a widow.

Great among the nations, A princess among states, become a prisoner!

 

She weeps and weeps in the night, her cheek wet with tears,

There is none to comfort her among all her friends.

All her allies have betrayed her; they have become her foes!

 

Judah has gone into exile because of misery and harsh oppression;

When she settled among the nations, she found no rest,

All her pursuers overtook her in between one narrow place and the next.

 

Zion’s roads are in mourning, empty of those coming for the festivals;

 All her gates are deserted, her priests sigh,

 her maidens are anxious, all is bitter to her.

 

Her enemies are now the masters, her foes are at ease,

because Adonai has afflicted her for her many transgressions; 

Her infants have gone into captivity before the enemy.

 

Gone from the daughter of Zion are all that were her glory, her leaders were like stags that found no pasture;  They walked without strength before the hunter. 

 

Jerusalem recalled,  in her days of longing  and misery, all her precious things

 that she had from days of old. When her people fell by enemy hands with none to help her, her enemies looked on and made sport over her downfall!

              

Community
Eastern Ashkenazi	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z142bdJp5-Y
Iraqi/Baghdadi	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3i1HQ27ScY
Morroccan	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHYMH_YjgoA
Yemenite Choral	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1gNVpHsEGQ
S&P	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAu4SGfuCPE Eicah starts  at 16:10

 

          Tu B’av- The Jewish Alternative to Saint Valentine and his day- 

a.   Original: 

אָמַר רַבָּן שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן גַּמְלִיאֵל, לֹא הָיוּ יָמִים טוֹבִים לְיִשְׂרָאֵל כַּחֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר בְּאָב וּכְיוֹם הַכִּפּוּרִים, שֶׁבָּהֶן בְּנוֹת יְרוּשָׁלַיִם יוֹצְאוֹת בִּכְלֵי לָבָן שְׁאוּלִין, שֶׁלֹּא לְבַיֵּשׁ אֶת מִי שֶׁאֵין לוֹ. כָּל הַכֵּלִים טְעוּנִין טְבִילָה. וּבְנוֹת יְרוּשָׁלַיִם יוֹצְאוֹת וְחוֹלוֹת בַּכְּרָמִים. וּמֶה הָיוּ אוֹמְרוֹת, בָּחוּר, שָׂא נָא עֵינֶיךָ וּרְאֵה, מָה אַתָּה בוֹרֵר לָךְ. אַל תִּתֵּן עֵינֶיךָ בַנּוֹי, תֵּן עֵינֶיךָ בַמִּשְׁפָּחָה. שֶׁקֶר הַחֵן וְהֶבֶל הַיֹּפִי, אִשָּׁה יִרְאַת ה' הִיא תִתְהַלָּל (משלי לא). וְאוֹמֵר, תְּנוּ לָהּ מִפְּרִי יָדֶיהָ, וִיהַלְלוּהָ בַשְּׁעָרִים מַעֲשֶׂיהָ.

Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel said: There were no days as joyous for the Jewish people as the Fifteenth of Av and as Yom Kippur!

 

 For on them the daughters of Jerusalem would go out in white clothes, which each woman borrowed from another. Why were they borrowed? They did this so as not to embarrass one who did not have her own white garments.  [Borrowed garments would not only have concealed who was poor but who was wealthy.]

 

And the daughters of Jerusalem would then go out and dance in the vineyards [under a full moon]. And what would they say? “Young man, please lift up your eyes:  what are you looking for? Don’t give yourself to the sight of beauty, but set your eyes toward a (woman from a)  good family!” As the verses in the book of Mishlei/Proverbs state: Grace is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised (Proverbs 31:30), and it further says: Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates (Proverbs 31:31). 

 

b.    Modern:  https://www.timesofisrael.com/eat-pray-and-love-on-tu-bav/

צָפוֹן

Tzafun

Tzafon

Tzapun

Tzapon

Harpoon!

 

 דָּרוֹם

Dadom

Dadoom

Darom

Daroom

Harpoon!

 

 

 

 מִזְרָח

Mizerach

Mayzerach

Mizrach

Mizracha

Mariachi

 

 מַעֲרָב

May’erev

Ma’arav

May’arav

Me’erev

Ma Aravi

 

 מֶרְכָּז

Mercaz

Meercaz

Merecaz

May’recaz

Mayer Kaz

 

 חוף.

Hof

Huf

Chof

Chuf

Hope.

 

 רַכֶּבֶת.

Rekeves

Rekevet

Rakavat

Rakevet

Harpoon!

 

מָטוֹס.

Matus

Matis

Matos

Masot

Mascot

 

 

 כְּבִישׁ מָהִיר.

Keveesh Mayhar

Keveesh Mahir

Kevees Mayhar

Kevees Mahir

Keanu Meeves

 

 סִירָה.

Goat

Note

Boat

Moat

Rote

 

 מִנהָרָה.

Meenehara

Meenhara

Mehnehara

Meenhar

Menhara

Harpoon!

 

 

 רַכֶּבֶת קַלָּה

רַכֶּבֶת תַּחְתִּית.

 

Light Rail and Subway

Subway and Local Train

Subway and Light Rail

Subway and Express Train

Subway and Harpoon!