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Jewish Question

PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:10 pm
by assateague
Ok, this is serious. I know that's a pretty foolish thing to say here, but I had to try. I've Googled for an answer to this little conundrum, but couldn't find anything, so figured I'd ask.

At a service area on the PA turnpike (sort of like a mall food court), there was a big group of Jews. Not Orthodox/Hasidic- they were dressed normally, but had their yarmulkes on. They were all washing their hands in the water fountain. They'd fill up a Solo cup (it was yellow, for the record), then pour it over their hands, and rub them together. Fill it up again, then the kids would dump it on their hands. The thing is, they had just come out of the restrooms, where there were perfectly good, functioning sinks and soap dispensers. There were no lines in the bathroom (I had just come out as well), but there were about 15 of them, with their young'uns, doing this at the fountains. I was pissed, because I was trying to fill up a confiscated Motel 6 ice bucket with some water for Dutch, and had to wait forever. They were making a Godawful mess, water everywhere all over the floor.

Is this some religious ritual, like eating kosher food? I would've asked them, but was pissed I had to wait so long. (The ice bucket wouldn't fit under the faucet in the bathroom sinks, for the record.)

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:14 pm
by Bulldog0156
Maybe they were amish jews?

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:39 pm
by 3legged_lab
assateague wrote:They'd fill up a Solo cup (it was yellow, for the record),

This is what you should really be getting to the bottom of.

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 12:31 am
by MuddyWaterWarlock
3legged_lab wrote:
assateague wrote:They'd fill up a Solo cup (it was yellow, for the record),

This is what you should really be getting to the bottom of.

This is true, you don't see many songs about a yellow solo cup :thumbsup:

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:00 am
by jehler
I'm guessing their father owns stock in a company that supplies the water fountains with filters, filters that must be replaced after so many gallons of use

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:27 am
by Tomkat
Naw. They were being picky bitches about a public restroom.



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Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:27 am
by aunt betty
Yellow solo cup
Jews fill with holy water
Then wash their hands up

Jew haiku :lol:

AT. You do realize that you baptised your puppy in jewish holy water?
You need to research some jew dog names.

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:30 am
by Olly
The rabbis of the Talmud derived the requirement of washing the hands as a consequence of the statement in Leviticus 15:11. The Talmud inferred the specific requirements of hand-washing from these passages.

The general Hebrew term for ritual hand washing is netilat yadayim, meaning lifting up of the hands. The term "the washing of hands" after excretion is sometimes referred to as "to wash asher yatzar" referring to the bracha (blessing) said which starts with these words.

Halakha (Jewish law) requires that the water used for ritual washing be naturally pure, unused, not contain other substances, and not be discoloured. The water also must be poured from a vessel as a human act, on the basis of references in the Bible to this practice, e.g. Elisha pouring water upon the hands of Elijah. Water should be poured on each hand at least twice. A clean dry substance should be used instead if water is unavailable.


Contemporary practice is to pour water on each hand three times for most purposes using a cup, and alternating the hands between each occurrence; this ritual is now known by the Yiddish term negel vasser, meaning nail water. This Yiddish term is also used for a special cup used for such washing.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_washing_in_Judaism

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:37 am
by jehler
aunt betty wrote:Yellow solo cup
Jews fill with holy water
Then wash their hands up

Jew haiku :lol:

AT. You do realize that you baptised your puppy in jewish holy water?
You need to research some jew dog names.
dutch is real close to Jew

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:08 am
by aunt betty
Dutch Goldberg

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:07 am
by assateague
Olly wrote:
The rabbis of the Talmud derived the requirement of washing the hands as a consequence of the statement in Leviticus 15:11. The Talmud inferred the specific requirements of hand-washing from these passages.

The general Hebrew term for ritual hand washing is netilat yadayim, meaning lifting up of the hands. The term "the washing of hands" after excretion is sometimes referred to as "to wash asher yatzar" referring to the bracha (blessing) said which starts with these words.

Halakha (Jewish law) requires that the water used for ritual washing be naturally pure, unused, not contain other substances, and not be discoloured. The water also must be poured from a vessel as a human act, on the basis of references in the Bible to this practice, e.g. Elisha pouring water upon the hands of Elijah. Water should be poured on each hand at least twice. A clean dry substance should be used instead if water is unavailable.


Contemporary practice is to pour water on each hand three times for most purposes using a cup, and alternating the hands between each occurrence; this ritual is now known by the Yiddish term negel vasser, meaning nail water. This Yiddish term is also used for a special cup used for such washing.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_washing_in_Judaism



Thanks Olly! I never found anything even close. Apparently, my search skills need work. Stuff like that fascinates me. Too bad Leviticus didn't say anything about cleaning up after yourself when you make a huge mess all over a public area.

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:09 am
by jehler
I was going to make something up that was strikingly close to the truth, I knew assa would know better though so I saved my time

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:10 am
by assateague
I probably wouldn't have. I know next to nothing about that sort of thing. Missed opportunity.

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:12 am
by jehler
I was planning on tying it in with the manna machine and holy water

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:14 am
by Olly
assateague wrote:


Thanks Olly! I never found anything even close. Apparently, my search skills need work. Stuff like that fascinates me. Too bad Leviticus didn't say anything about cleaning up after yourself when you make a huge mess all over a public area.


Didn't you used to be a P.I.? :lol:

Sent from my phone.

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:16 am
by assateague
I'm not even certain I had a computer at that time. We still had phone books, cameras with film, and video cameras with big-ass cassettes in them. :lol:

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:18 am
by jehler
assateague wrote:I'm not even certain I had a computer at that time. We still had phone books, cameras with film, and video cameras with big-ass cassettes in them. :lol:
phone books were the shit back in the day

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:54 am
by Olly
The last time I used a phone book was to light my grill.

Sent from my phone.

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:35 am
by Mornin Beef
Last time I used one I sprained my neck and both wrists trying to rip it in half 90 beers deep.

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:07 pm
by MuddyWaterWarlock
Mornin Beef wrote:Last time I used one I sprained my neck and both wrists trying to rip it in half 90 beers deep.

I can rip a phone book in half, double it and do it again! Just remember, the closest town only has 125 people in it :thumbsup:

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:44 pm
by Mornin Beef
MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:
Mornin Beef wrote:Last time I used one I sprained my neck and both wrists trying to rip it in half 90 beers deep.

I can rip a phone book in half, double it and do it again! Just remember, the closest town only has 125 people in it :thumbsup:

Still impressed. Theres always alot of advertisements. Double fist pump :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:33 pm
by Bulldog0156
MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:
Mornin Beef wrote:Last time I used one I sprained my neck and both wrists trying to rip it in half 90 beers deep.

I can rip a phone book in half, double it and do it again! Just remember, the closest town only has 125 people in it :thumbsup:

That takes the meaning of "jerking off" to a whole new level :o

Re: Jewish Question

PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:21 pm
by bill herian
They wash their hands like that before handling the eggs.