Ramadan Kareem & Happy Rosh Hashanah

Posted on September 13, 2007
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To all my Muslim readers, have a great Ramadan. Make the best of it.

To all my Jewish readers, have a wonderful Rosh Hashanah. Make sure you leave for me some of those honey soaked apples.

I hope I don’t receive angry emails from people like Holy Dekazza, for daring to put the words “Ramadan” and “Rosh Hashanah” in the same sentence. Or for indicating that they both start with the letter “r”.

Salam and Shalom to everyone! :)

Comments

16 Responses to “Ramadan Kareem & Happy Rosh Hashanah”

  1. Andrew Brehm on September 13th, 2007 8:22 am

    Thank you!

    Unfortunately, I have to work. Cannot take a month off in the summer for studying Hebrew and then take seemingly random days of the month after that. :-)

  2. Amjad on September 13th, 2007 8:24 am

    Ramadhan Kareem ya man! :)

  3. TeacherLady on September 13th, 2007 11:43 am

    I remember the year I was in high school when Ramadan, Christmas, and Hannukah all overlapped and we made a point of mentioning all three quite rebelliously in greeting one another… We were in an Arab country, after all. Ooh, we were daring in those days.

  4. Drima on September 13th, 2007 12:50 pm

    That’s too bad Andrew. Enjoy up there in Ireland.

    Amjad, you too man.

    TeacherLady, that’s hilarious!

  5. The Raccoon on September 13th, 2007 2:04 pm

    Ramadan Kareem… and a happy New Year! :)

  6. Ahmad al-Safawi on September 13th, 2007 3:30 pm

    Ramadan kareem ya afandi

  7. aaron on September 13th, 2007 3:36 pm

    I miss iftar! So much good food! Enjoy for me :)

  8. Stephen on September 13th, 2007 5:55 pm

    Ramadan Kareem bro :)

  9. Rancher on September 14th, 2007 1:16 am

    Asalam aleikum and Ramadan kareem. I use kareem as meaning happy or joyous, please let me know when if being ignorant, I couldn’t find a definition on google but words mean something and I want to be sure what I’m saying. And happy Rosh Hashanah. (Rosh Hashanah kareem?)

  10. Andrew Brehm on September 14th, 2007 8:27 am

    “And happy Rosh Hashanah. (Rosh Hashanah kareem?)”

    Shana tova. :-)

    (”Good year.”)

  11. Roman Kalik on September 15th, 2007 5:10 pm

    Thanks, man. Shana Tova, and Ramadan Kareem. :-)

  12. Jack on September 16th, 2007 2:15 am

    G-d willing this will be the year that we figure out a way for all of us to get along.

  13. Nikol on September 16th, 2007 8:54 pm

    That’s all fine. What, however, do you think about Obadiah Shoher’s criticism pf Rosh Hashanah as aholiday that has nothing to do with New Year? Here, for example http://samsonblinded.org/blog/petty-paganism.htm

  14. Roman Kalik on September 16th, 2007 9:23 pm

    Nikol, what Shoher says in that post is pure, hate-filled and bigoted rubbish. Tell Hassidim that they pray at graves, for insance, and they will stare at you as if you’re insane. In Judaism, a Tsadik (Righteous Man), one who put his entirety into caring for the generation he lived in, is said to remain behind (in part) after he dies. He is said to listen, and care, and try and act for the people he cared for in life, in Heavens, just as he did when he was alive.

    People go to the grave of a Tsadik to honor him, to thank him for all that he has taught, and maybe to ask him to pass on a request, to pray for them Above, much as he did Below.

    I won’t bother debunking the rest. I can’t spare that much time on this. Shoher displays a profound hatred to Orthodox Judaism.

  15. Roman Kalik on September 16th, 2007 9:37 pm

    Oh, and part of the point of going to the grave of a Tsadik is mourning. That such a great man is no longer here to teach you and guide is worthy of mourning.

  16. Solomon2 on September 20th, 2007 1:56 pm

    About them apples…an unusual problem is cropping up more and more frequently every year: American apples are getting so sweet, it’s unpalatable to me to eat them with added honey. I have to make sure to buy an apple tart enough so eating it with honey is the pleasure it’s supposed to be.

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