Purim torah!

[cellio]

It's the season of Purim Torah on Mi Yodeya. Here are some of my favorites:

From this year:

• My answer to a question asking what Birkat Amazon is and what giving thanks after a meal has to do with amazon.com

• What are we supposed to do about losing an hour of Purim this year? (I answered that one too)

• Why do we shake four heretics on Sukkot? (on Sukkot we shake the "four species", different plants; the word for "species" resembles the word for heretics)

• Can one go back in time to complete a minyan?

And some from past years:

• Perl programming in the Torah

• Surviving the zombie apocalypse

• Using the Force on Shabbat

• Rejecting others' friend requests on Facebook

• And one I had a lot of fun answering, Why don't Jews accept Our Lord and Savior?

There are a lot more where those came from, and the season continues for about the next two weeks.

Comments

[metahacker]

How many of Zaphod's mothers need to be Jewish for him to be?

[cellio]

Huh, good question!

today's favorite

[cellio]

How to eat Wacky Mac (a kind of macaroni and cheese) was posted today and asks about the correct way to eat this combination of four pastas to properly fulfill the mitzvah of wackiness on Purim. Do you eat them in a particular order? How much? What blessing do you say?

I had fun answering this.