Purim Torah!

[cellio]

Purim Torah season started on Mi Yodeya tonight-ish. Here are a few questions currently on the front page (some new, some from past years):

• May Sauron's ring be used for kiddushin (marriage)?

• Is money-laundering permitted during the Nine Days? What about airing dirty laundry? (the question refers to a period of mourning during which wearing freshly-laundered clothes is forbidden)

• Can my gravatar wear clothes from the "wrong" gender? (this one is mine and currently has a bounty up for grabs)

There are more, and I'm sure there will be many more over the next two weeks. Look for "PTIJ" ("Purim Torah: in jest") at the beginning of question titles.

There's also this answer, which I can only kind-of sort-of read but I see my name in there (made the mishna, apparently!). Um, I hope it's good? :-)

And a couple from past years that I enjoyed: one about losing an hour of Purim because of DST, and one about accepting the messiah.

Comments

[kyleri]

If Zaphod Beeblebrox observes the torah, it is only in the sense of "observe" that means "watches it whoosh by his heads while he's out for a stroll".

*spit take*

I LOVE THIS, this sort of argument/discussion/joint ranty rant is one of my FAVOURITE things about Judaism (& one of the places where I can really see the effect Judaism has had on heraldry in the SCA...)

[cellio]

I had a lot of fun writing that one. :-)

[kyleri]

I'll BET, it's GLORIOUS.