Jewish Question
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Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:10 pmby 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
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Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:14 pmby Bulldog0156
Maybe they were amish jews?
Re: Jewish Question
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Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:39 pmby 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
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 12:31 amby 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
Re: Jewish Question
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:00 amby 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
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:27 amby Tomkat
Naw. They were being picky bitches about a public restroom.
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Re: Jewish Question
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:27 amby aunt betty
Yellow solo cup
Jews fill with holy water
Then wash their hands up
Jew haiku
AT. You do realize that you baptised your puppy in jewish holy water?
You need to research some jew dog names.
Re: Jewish Question
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:37 amby jehler
aunt betty wrote:Yellow solo cup
Jews fill with holy water
Then wash their hands up
Jew haiku
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
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:07 amby 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
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:09 amby 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
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:10 amby assateague
I probably wouldn't have. I know next to nothing about that sort of thing. Missed opportunity.
Re: Jewish Question
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:12 amby jehler
I was planning on tying it in with the manna machine and holy water
Re: Jewish Question
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:14 amby 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.?
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Re: Jewish Question
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:16 amby 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.
Re: Jewish Question
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:18 amby 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.
phone books were the shit back in the day
Re: Jewish Question
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:54 amby Olly
The last time I used a phone book was to light my grill.
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Re: Jewish Question
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:35 amby 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
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:07 pmby 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
Re: Jewish Question
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:44 pmby 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
Still impressed. Theres always alot of advertisements. Double fist pump
Re: Jewish Question
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:33 pmby 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
That takes the meaning of "jerking off" to a whole new level
Re: Jewish Question
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Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:21 pmby bill herian
They wash their hands like that before handling the eggs.