Jewschool.com, one of my absolute favorite Jew-y blogs, reminded us all yesterday of a really cool online phenomenon called "Sefer Ha-Bloggadah." Now, when I graduated from middle school, I was given Sefer Ha-Aggadah (The Book of Legends) as a gift, and I'm proud to say that not only do I still have it prominently displayed on my shelf, but I use it often as a resource. I'm such a Jew nerd.
So there will be people all over, starting on August 25th, studying Sefer Ha-Aggadah together, a little bit at a time, finishing up in just over 2 years. It's in honor of the 100th anniversary of its compilation by the editor Yehoshua Ravnitsky, and the famed Hebrew poet Hayim Nachman Bialik (Mayim Bialik's ancestor, according to Wikipedia). And the thing of it is, I've had the book for over a decade, and I've enjoyed it so much, that I think I'm actually going to give it a shot. I think it'll be fun, and I'll do my best to keep y'all abreast of the good stuff.
And there's plenty of good stuff.
[By the way, thanks to a good friend of ours in the Israeli army for providing the inspiration for the title of today's post. Very punny.]
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