What makes bread bread? That’s what I really want to know here. What’s considered bread under halacha and what’s really being blessed as HaMotzi? Is it only, literally bread? Does it cover other products made with the same basic ingredients? I can’t remember the Pesach blessing for matzah, but surely you wouldn’t consider matzah to be real bread? (It’s a pale imitation at best imo).

Apparently not-bread but bread-related things are mezonot and that comes under the blessing for grains

I suppose pizza would come under that. But then again, would the toppings count towards the overall dish?

My rabbi says that any bread-related food, such as crackers, pizza or 'mezonot bread', should be classified as hamotzi if eating them as a meal. And I'm pretty sure you just make one bracha for hamotzi as that is the main aspect of the pizza you're eating. Also, fun fact, if you make a hamotzi at the beginning of the meal, you don't need to make any other brachot for any other food as they are included in the hamotzi (but I think some say you should make a bracha for desserts?)

this is so dishonest and disingenuous. the arab rejection of the partition plan does not justify ethnic cleaning, endless massacres and the occupation of an entire people and their lands.

can’t wait til these israeli scum rot in hell.

But Hamas - the group organising many of these marches which have resulted in ‘civilian’ deaths - did reject numerous two state solutions. Their stated goal is to eradicate Israel. He’s right. Had the original borders been respected by Hamas and other Arab nations, there’d have been no wars and Israel would not have really expanded.

Uh firstly, Hamas didn’t come into existence til the 80′s. Secondly, they didn’t organise these marches. These are Palestinian-led marches by unarmed civilians. Thirdly, you’re a fucking moron because Hamas isn’t the one negotiating with Israel, it’s the Palestinian Authority which is mostly comprised of Fatah. Not to mention, the PLO accepted Israel’s right to exist back in 1988. All it takes is a google search.

To say that Israel wouldn’t have expanded if Arabs respected Israel’s borders is a lie. It was Israel who attacked Egypt first in 1967. It’s Israel who still occupies the Syrian Golan Heights + WB & Gaza. 

I literally don’t have time for this.  Fuck off.

Are you actually serious? The Arab attackers Israel and the USSR were the only ones to (falsely) claim that Israel's attack on Egypt was unlawful. It's pretty well accepted that it was a preemptive strike. Of course Israel wouldn't start a war against armies 11 times as large as them?

this is one of those things that, if preserved akin to a shakespearean text, would need at least 2 lines worth of annotations to let the reader know tf is happening

You all are making my life annoying about “Disobedience,” so I want you to see this

Reblogging again

This movie is called Eyes Wide Open and it’s about gay ultra-orthodox men

I feel weird about non-lesbian orthodox women calling an adaption of a lesbian ex-orthodox woman’s memoir as “fetishizing.” Like I would just like to see a lesbian orthodox woman’s take on this lesbian narrative as opposed to straight women?

Tbh the book was written by a non-orthodox straight woman, and the film made by a male non-jew.

The vein viewer in action. Here’s my original post on the vein viewer. 

Disobedience PSA

Naomi Alderman (author of the book Disobedience is based on) did NOT grow up in the community portrayed in the story. I’m not sure whether this very mistaken idea has been perpetuated by the author herself somewhere, or whether it’s just people completely misunderstanding that Orthodoxy is not a monolithic institution, but:

Stop defending how negatively and one-dimensionally Orthodoxy is portrayed in this movie by invoking the author’s insider status. She is not and has never been part of the community in the story.

(See here for a further analysis of problems with this movie based on the trailer.)

As much as I dislike Disobedience, Naomi did grow up in Hendon, which is an Orthodox community and is where the book was based. Hendon is typically Modern Orthodox, with some people on the more Yeshivish side, but the film does seem to be set in the more Chareidi Golders Green. To be honest, I think the makers of the film ramped up the frum factor to further force the title of The Other on the characters, which is pretty disgusting.

That’s like saying that because I lived in a building that had a huge presence of a certain immigrant community when I was in college, I could accurately write a story about that community. I definitely can’t. Physical proximity doesn’t necessarily indicate knowledge, and like I pointed out, she clearly grew up with a negative bias from her father, in addition to not being part of this particular community. Agree with your last statement, though.

I would say that she does have some knowledge of the community. I’m not sure where you live but from what I know the frum London Jewish community is more fluid and mixed than in America, in that there isn’t such a division between chareidi frum communities and non-chareidi frum communities. Naomi grew up in an orthodox community, went to a Jewish primary school, kept kosher and shabbat, and so on. She definitely would have grown up with, eaten Shabbat lunch at, and been friends with people who are similar to the characters in the book. I think she fully understands the community. But no, that doesn’t make her the one to slander it.

I haven’t read the book, so I can’t comment on it, but if she does know the community…it sure didn’t carry over to the movie. See the post I linked to above for a list of issues with the trailer alone.

Completely agree. That’s why I’m not sure if she’s the one to blame. I doubt she had much creative control over the film. I guess it’s the filmmakers’ responsibility, or women in the community who were consulted for the film and didn’t pick them up on the mistakes.

I didn’t mean to imply that she’s to blame; this post was meant to address the fact that I’ve seen multiple people on this site, when confronted with criticism of the way Orthodoxy is portrayed in the movie, brush it off with, “But this movie is based on a novel by a woman who grew up in that community, so…” Basically saying that because she’s an insider, such criticism is necessarily invalid. But she’s not an insider.

I’d also be interested to see if there is actually any evidence of true insiders being consulted for the movie in any kind of meaningful way, because…if just the trailer had that many mistakes, that’s a whole lot to “miss.” And it’s all stuff that I picked up on first watch.

Yeah I know for a fact that Rachel McAdams went to an orthodox school and met with orthodox women in the community. I know that from word of mouth though so have no evidence.

Edit: found a link to a newspaper article written last year showing that everyone had the same qualms even when they were filming it https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/features/hey-film-stars-we-re-frum-not-frumps-1.431836

Disobedience PSA

Naomi Alderman (author of the book Disobedience is based on) did NOT grow up in the community portrayed in the story. I’m not sure whether this very mistaken idea has been perpetuated by the author herself somewhere, or whether it’s just people completely misunderstanding that Orthodoxy is not a monolithic institution, but:

Stop defending how negatively and one-dimensionally Orthodoxy is portrayed in this movie by invoking the author’s insider status. She is not and has never been part of the community in the story.

(See here for a further analysis of problems with this movie based on the trailer.)

As much as I dislike Disobedience, Naomi did grow up in Hendon, which is an Orthodox community and is where the book was based. Hendon is typically Modern Orthodox, with some people on the more Yeshivish side, but the film does seem to be set in the more Chareidi Golders Green. To be honest, I think the makers of the film ramped up the frum factor to further force the title of The Other on the characters, which is pretty disgusting.

That’s like saying that because I lived in a building that had a huge presence of a certain immigrant community when I was in college, I could accurately write a story about that community. I definitely can’t. Physical proximity doesn’t necessarily indicate knowledge, and like I pointed out, she clearly grew up with a negative bias from her father, in addition to not being part of this particular community. Agree with your last statement, though.

I would say that she does have some knowledge of the community. I’m not sure where you live but from what I know the frum London Jewish community is more fluid and mixed than in America, in that there isn’t such a division between chareidi frum communities and non-chareidi frum communities. Naomi grew up in an orthodox community, went to a Jewish primary school, kept kosher and shabbat, and so on. She definitely would have grown up with, eaten Shabbat lunch at, and been friends with people who are similar to the characters in the book. I think she fully understands the community. But no, that doesn’t make her the one to slander it.

I haven’t read the book, so I can’t comment on it, but if she does know the community…it sure didn’t carry over to the movie. See the post I linked to above for a list of issues with the trailer alone.

Completely agree. That’s why I’m not sure if she’s the one to blame. I doubt she had much creative control over the film. I guess it’s the filmmakers’ responsibility, or women in the community who were consulted for the film and didn’t pick them up on the mistakes.

Disobedience PSA

Naomi Alderman (author of the book Disobedience is based on) did NOT grow up in the community portrayed in the story. I’m not sure whether this very mistaken idea has been perpetuated by the author herself somewhere, or whether it’s just people completely misunderstanding that Orthodoxy is not a monolithic institution, but:

Stop defending how negatively and one-dimensionally Orthodoxy is portrayed in this movie by invoking the author’s insider status. She is not and has never been part of the community in the story.

(See here for a further analysis of problems with this movie based on the trailer.)

As much as I dislike Disobedience, Naomi did grow up in Hendon, which is an Orthodox community and is where the book was based. Hendon is typically Modern Orthodox, with some people on the more Yeshivish side, but the film does seem to be set in the more Chareidi Golders Green. To be honest, I think the makers of the film ramped up the frum factor to further force the title of The Other on the characters, which is pretty disgusting.

That’s like saying that because I lived in a building that had a huge presence of a certain immigrant community when I was in college, I could accurately write a story about that community. I definitely can’t. Physical proximity doesn’t necessarily indicate knowledge, and like I pointed out, she clearly grew up with a negative bias from her father, in addition to not being part of this particular community. Agree with your last statement, though.

I would say that she does have some knowledge of the community. I’m not sure where you live but from what I know the frum London Jewish community is more fluid and mixed than in America, in that there isn’t such a division between chareidi frum communities and non-chareidi frum communities. Naomi grew up in an orthodox community, went to a Jewish primary school, kept kosher and shabbat, and so on. She definitely would have grown up with, eaten Shabbat lunch at, and been friends with people who are similar to the characters in the book. I think she fully understands the community. But no, that doesn’t make her the one to slander it.

Disobedience PSA

Naomi Alderman (author of the book Disobedience is based on) did NOT grow up in the community portrayed in the story. I’m not sure whether this very mistaken idea has been perpetuated by the author herself somewhere, or whether it’s just people completely misunderstanding that Orthodoxy is not a monolithic institution, but:

Stop defending how negatively and one-dimensionally Orthodoxy is portrayed in this movie by invoking the author’s insider status. She is not and has never been part of the community in the story.

(See here for a further analysis of problems with this movie based on the trailer.)

As much as I dislike Disobedience, Naomi did grow up in Hendon, which is an Orthodox community and is where the book was based. Hendon is typically Modern Orthodox, with some people on the more Yeshivish side, but the film does seem to be set in the more Chareidi Golders Green. To be honest, I think the makers of the film ramped up the frum factor to further force the title of The Other on the characters, which is pretty disgusting.

Which one of y'all made this?? 😂

Im sorry but i watched this 500 times in a row and cackled til i cried

What do you mean? This is just the original scene

Enough.

I hate each and every single one of you

In honor of me rejecting a boy today, here is my mom turning down a marriage proposal from a Fuckboy in the early 90s on national television. Enjoy.

Koolulam commemorate the Holocaust, performing the song “Chai” by Ofra Haza

600 Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at Beit Avi-Chai in Jerusalem, marking the upcoming Holocaust Memorial Day, April 8th 2018. Partnering with “Zikaron Basalon”, we celebrated life by performing the song “Chai” by Ofra Haza. The result was moving …

קולולם Koolulam

Hebrew in ~300 words עִבְרִית בְּכְ־300 מִּלִּים

Attention! I made some mistakes on the original post due to how similar the vowel points look on the HTML editor, hopefully enough people will see this on my blog and see that I’ve fixed them. Sorry :(

As a part of this post about beginning to learn a language, I’d decided to translate 300 basic words and phrases into Hebrew.

Note: all words will be written in defective spelling (ktiv haser) and with vowel points for ease of pronunciation

A hyphen (מָקָף) indicates the preposition / conjunction is immediately attached to the next word, and a dot underneath the hyphen is a dagesh, a bowel point indicating change in pronunciation of ב, כ, פ from the expected mid-word soft pronunciations (v, kh, f) to the hard ones (b, k ,p, respectively).

First Verbs

Verbs are given in their simplest form: 3rd person, male, past tense. modal verbs are exceptional in Hebrew, so they are given in their most common form.

Conjunctions

Prepositions

When used with pronouns, Hebrew prepositions are always conjugated with a specific ending for each pronoun.

Question Words

Adverbs

Adjectives

Pronouns

Conjugated as:

ס stands for the preceding prepostion

* There is no neuter gender (it), so inanimate nouns are referred to by the corresponding male or female third person pronouns and conjugations

** Many speakers these days make no distinction between male and female second and third person pronouns (you, they), so these conjugations are gradually becoming obsolete.

Nouns

Hebrew nouns come in two genders, masculine and feminine, however unlike many other languages, the definite article is identical for all genders and inflections, therefore it is not included.

More Verbs

Phrases

* As these are one word sentences, they’re rarely said as is, usually coupled with a preposition indicating who or what is cold. (E.g. I’m cold - קַר לִי; It’s cold outside - קַר בָּחוּץ

i wish people understood the context in which there were merchants selling animals inside the temple.

when the temple was still standing there were certain times in a jewish persons life where they were required to go there and make a certain sacrifice. if x happened to you, you had to sacrifice a dove, if you did y, you had to go sacrifice a lamb, this was an extremely elaborate tradition of sacrificial requirements. and certain things would be like “if he is too poor to afford to sacrifice a sheep for this he can do 2 doves instead” everything was spelled out and these were just. it was part of being jewish. certain things you did, certain things that happened to you or to your family, you went to the temple and made a sacrifice.

to sacrifice an animal to hashem it had to be perfect, and you had to own it yourself for your sacrifice to count. so rather than having everybody from all over traveling to the temple with like their 3 best oxen in tow to have the kohanim at the temple then say “yes you can sacrifice this one” or “no these all suck go back and get a better ox”. you had some dudes hanging out at the temple selling preapproved sacrificial animals. so that when i come in from 65 miles out of town after five or six days hard journey. i can just purchase one of them (the purchase is important, it means i own the animal) and sacrifice it. and you had money changers hanging out at the same location because if you were from far enough out of town you would literally use different coins back home than in jerusalem.

you cant just put that stuff outside the temple because theres not just endless room in front of the temple on the streets of jerusalem, and if you put it in another location in the city your out of towners arent going to know where it is.

so when yall are like “jesus cleansed the temple of the capitalists” you have to understand what he did was show up and out of nowhere, for no real reason, bust up the system that was allowing people to fulfill their religious obligations as jews even if they didnt live in town. and tbh to frame this as “jesus smiting the evil capitalists” with the history of how antisemitism frames jews and money…is less than great

Knowledge is a position of strength, and I am grateful for the education in the details of what was actually going on.

But this sounds like exactly the sort of thing a revolutionary would want to bust up? It was a system of rules that were initially well-intentioned and intuitive, that became unwieldy and over-complicated for people to actually follow. Trying to follow them perfectly led to eventually profaning the spirit of the worship that really was important. But by then no one is willing to call out the Emperor’s new clothes, and too many people are invested in the existing system, to see “this is ridiculous.” So some outsider comes and and does that instead.

To call them “evil capitalists” implies that the moneychangers and animal sellers were just greedy. And it’s correct to point out that no, they were fulfilling something people needed, and doing it to feed their kids. It is wrong to blame them individually. But it is good to disrupt the entire thing.

Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

hi there, would you like to justify (to me, a Jew) why exactly you think the holy worship of my ancestors which we pray to return to was “unwieldy”?

and “over-complicated” is just such a mistaken way of looking at jewish practice, from such a foreign viewpoint, that i don’t even know where to begin explaining how wrong it is. it’s complex because it’s important. the answer to “God gave us a lot of rules and we need to do a lot of things to keep them” is not “God is a fool and these rules should be abolished”, or “the rules are fake”. 

(why do you think jesus was an “outsider”? he was a Palestinian Jew, like everyone else, and i don’t think “not working in the temple sacrifices trade” qualifies because most people didn’t work in the temple sacrifices trade)

Not a Jew, out of my lane, but wanted to contribute. (A shitload of religious education has to be good for more than making me hate myself on a fundamental level.) Jesus’s beef with the money changers and livestock sales folk, was that it defeated the purpose of the sacrifice. It should be HARD to part with the animal that is part of your livestock. It should be a SACRIFICE to kill it on the altar instead of at home where it can feed your family. And the reason for this is typically the bigger animal sacrifices were given as sin offerings. You fuck up big - you sacrifice big. If it was simply a matter of giving thanks or whatever, it’d be fine to do something smaller or more portable. But the WHOLE idea of the large animal sacrifice was that if somebody commits murder, and they want to get right with god, it should be DIFFICULT SO THAT THEY DON’T WANT TO GO THROUGH IT AGAIN. If you can go on a killing spree and then buy your peace with God outside the Temple, what sacrifice are you making? What intention is there in your act of contrition? And what motivation do you have to stop sinning? Jesus was a good Jew. And while yes, he shook a lot of people in religious power, it wasn’t because he was an outsider. It was because he was as much of an insider as it was possible to get. A similar parallel exists in the Catholic church with the practice of buying Indulgences, one of the main causes of the Protestant schism. Opportunistic assholes inside a very corrupt church figured out they could make bank off the largely uneducated and illiterate population buy selling fake Saint’s toes and fingers and other relics on the promise of forgiving their sins past, present and future. Half of them were robbed from peasant graves. And absolutely none of it had the first thing to do with Christian eschatology. I can’t imagine the situation outside the Temple was much different. Where did the animals come from? Did they meet the purity requirements? Who the fuck knows, but I’d sincerely doubt it.

well then: 

you realize plenty of people lived in cities and didn’t have livestock, right? We’re talking about the ancient Roman empire. Not everyone owned cows. Like honestly what is your point? G-d doesn’t ask us to starve ourselves every time we make a mistake. That sounds unfathomably cruel and not at all Jewish. 

It didn’t. The sacrifice is a ritual action, the intent behind it to self-correct is what is most important. This is why in Judaism, you don’t need sacrifices in order to atone for a sin, prayer is also sufficient. 

That’s not!!!!! how Jewish sacrifice!!!!! WORKS!!!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!! 

also holy shit you can’t just sacrifice a cow to fix murdering someone, where did you even get that from?? Are we just going to go right to blood libel with this? Like just a hot tip™ but if you don’t know the difference between a chatatot and an asham offering, then maybe you….shouldn’t speak about animal sacrifice like you know what you’re saying? 

WELL FIRST OF ALL, MURDERING SOMEONE IS NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN ATONE FOR IN JUDAISM,,,,

and secondly, this isn’t catholicism!

really debatable but whatever. 

Indulgences are not fake saint’s toes and neither of these things have anything to do with Judaism or Jewish viewpoints on atonement or sacrifice or anything else. 

this might sound wild to you, but you know, purity requirements involve an inspection beforehand. People look at the animal. It’s not a vague and mysterious unknown. We have like…laws regarding this, there’s standards, people know what to look for. Priests wouldn’t sacrifice something that wasn’t going to meet the requirements. Like I’m sorry but medieval xtians cannot be compared to ancient Jews, especially not in the sense of who was “learned” or “literate” in their own religion. Studying the religion is a large part of the religion. Knowing halakha (the law) is a massive part of Judaism. People were not as ignorant as you’d like to assume. 

I'm Jewish and I mostly agree with you but the other (catholic?) person also spoke some truth... Like the sefer hachinuch says that the point of sacrifices was to enforce the idea in the mind of the sacrifice-giver that the animal is being killed instead of them. I haven't read the new testament so I don't know the full story but if all Jesus did was fuck things up for the poorer Jews then that's stupid. But I'd understand why it would have been preferable in theory for the animals to have belonged to the person rather than bought at the Beit HaMikdash so that the experience would have a greater effect on the person (also I thought Jesus said people only need to keep man-to-man commandments so why did he care anyway?). Also especially around the turn of the millennium (if you could call it that) and the time leading up to it, the temple was becoming much more "commercialised" and less Hashem-oriented. It became more of Herod's architectural marvel (the pinnacle of the helenism fought against previously) and it was ruled by an elite group of wealthy kohanim who accepted bribes and stuff.

the angels that greet you in heaven

Omg my ovaries

My heart can’t take this

when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c

#idk why i’m so unreasonably angry#maybe cuz it’s my fav line

it’s also because Leonard COHEN (!) was Jewish and this is a quintessentially Jewish line, and changing it to that level of Annoying Certainty is stripping it of its Jewish meaning and imbuing it with that particularly American smug evangelical Christian attitude that makes me tired, so very tired

THAT IS EXACTLY WHY

I don’t think I’ve heard any cover artist sing my favorite verses You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you And even though It all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

um woah

I will always hit the reblog button so hard for Hallelujah but ESPECIALLY mentions of the elusive final verses which are just about my favorite lyrics ever. Why do people always omit the best part of the song??

In Yiddish

In Hebrew

In Ladino

Yeah, I wonder why the verses that reference specific Jewish mystical and chassidic concepts that aren’t readily understood by American “I love Jews, you know, Jesus was Jewish!” Christians never get any airtime. Funny that.

You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah

These are specifically about Chassidic Jewish theories of the holy language, how each letter and combination of letters in Hebrew contains the essence of the divine spark and if used correctly, can unlock or uncover the divine spark in the mundane material word. And of course, there are secret names of God which, when spoken by any ordinary human would kill them, but if you are worthy and holy and righteous can be used to perform miracles or even to behold the glory of God face-to-face. The words themselves have power. Orthodox Jews often won’t even pronounce the word “hallelujah” in it’s entirety in conversation, because the “yah” sound at the end is a True Name of God (there are hundreds, supposedly) and thus too holy to say outside of prayer.

None of this is to mention how David’s sin in sleeping with Batshevah (the subject of much of the song, with a brief deviation to Shimshon and Delilah) is considered the turning point in the Tanach that ultimately dooms the Davidic line at the cosmological level and thus dooms Jewish sovereignty and independence altogether. From a Christian perspective this led to Jesus, the King of Kings, and that’s all very well and good for them, but for the Jews, the Davidic line never returned and is the central tragedy of the total arc of the Torah. Like, our Bible doesn’t have a happy ending? And that’s what this song is about? There’s no Grace - you just have to sit with the sin and its consequence.

Of course, Cohen is referencing all of this ironically, and personalizing these very high-level religious concepts. Like the point of this song is that Cohen, the songwriter, is identifying with David, the psalmist, and identifying his own sins with David’s. The ache that you hear in this song is that the two thousand year exile that resulted from one wrong night of passion and Cohen feels that the pain he has caused to his lover is of equally monumental infamy. Basically, in a certain light, the whole of Psalms is a vain effort for David to atone for his sin and I think Cohen was writing this song in wonderment that David could eternally praise the God who would not forgive him and would force him and his people into exile. But he ultimately gets how you have to surrender to the inexorable force of God in the face of your own inadequacies and how to surrender is to worship and to worship is to praise - hence, Hallelujah. You can either do the right thing and worship God from the start, or you can fuck up, be punished, and thus be forced to beg for His forgiveness. It’s the terrible inevitability of praise that’s driving him mad.

Like honestly, I identify with this song so strongly as an off-the-derech Jew, I sometimes wonder what Christians can possibly hear in this song, as it speaks so specifically to the sadomasochistic relationship that a lapsed Jew has with their God. It’s such a different song from a Christian theological perspective it’s almost unrecognizable, man. This song continues to be a wonder of postmodern Jewish theology and sexuality from start to finish. Don’t let anyone give you any “Judeo-Christian” narishkeit. This is a Jewish song.

(Sorry about the wild tangent it’s just 2AM and I love this song so dang much, you guys.)

holy shit. woah.

Y-Love - Hip-Hop Artist, Jewish

Yitz Jordan, better known by his stage name Y-Love, is a hip-hop artist who rhymes in a mix of English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, Latin, and Aramaic with a focus on social, political, and religious themes. His parents were Christian Ethiopian and Puerto Rican and he grew up in a Baptist household.

Jordan first became interested in Judaism at the age of seven and he converted to Orthodox Judaism in the early 2000s. He spent time studying in a yeshiva in Jerusalem and he’s also read the Quran, “believing that familiarity with a variety of religious texts will help bring understanding.” [x]

In 2012, he publicly came out as gay.

Here is Y-Love speaking out for LGBT inclusion in the Jewish community

and about Jews of Color

I also linked to some of his music earlier. Check it out.

I’m afraid I’m a bit behind on school work so I’ll have to make two Black History Month posts tomorrow to make up for today. In the meantime, be sure to check out this post on Y-Love and the link to some of his music.