Esti Mamo, Shushan Purim Queen

Ethiopian Jewish model Esti Mamo is our Shushan Purim queen.

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[chocolate milkshakes for EVERYONE (inc schmarya)]

oh wow. it was not disgusting enough that i had to imagine schmarya in his skid marked underwear reading documents from the rubish-can corruption case as if they were pornography, now i have to imagine that slime jerking off in front of his keyboard to this image.

schmarya you are the epitome of a loser in my opinion and this woman above wouldnt even say 'ello to you but you would beg her for her autograph.

you are just another sleeping being unable to wake up to your full potential in life.

you, rubbishcan, and the others that circle jerk around you are the reason for everything bad in this world.

[Yochanan Lavie]

She can rattle my grogger anytime...

[Jon]

In before Mr.Bunker!

[WoolSilkCotton]

I am shocked, shocked, to see such images on this holy website.
I am only looking at these images to educate myself about the evils of the nonreligious world, so that I know what women to avoid. Shmarya, please post more so that I can become even more educated.

+06:35am+
I am always amused at how obsessed the black hat crowd is with using vile and vulgar language is putting down anyone they don't like, especially using sexual and bathroom imagery.

[Dave Marshall]

Yochanan, WSC- haha ha !
Seriously, she is beautiful. Or should I say, she is seriously beautiful.

[Yochanan Lavie]

6:35 is jealous, 'cause Shmarya's girlfriend looks like this. Eat your heart out.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Brown Shushan (apologies the Stones)

747 bound for Ben Gurion,
From Ethiopia, now have one on.
Mercaz kilta know it's doin' beseder.
I wish a had this women just around my seder.
Oy brown Shushan how come you taste so good
(oy vey) brown Shushan, just like a hamantaschen should
Oy vey.

Groggers grogging, cold Jewish blood runs hot,
rabbi of the shul wondrin' where it's gonna stop.
Chazzan knows that he's doin' alright.
You should a heard him layn the megillah.

Oy brown Shushan how come you taste so good
(oy vey) brown Shushan, just like a hamantaschen should
Oy vey.

I bet your mama was a Sheba queen, and all her boy
Friends were kessim.
I'm no bochur but I know what I like,
You should have heard me just around chatzot.

Oy brown Shushan how come you taste so good
(oy vey) brown Shushan, just like shalach manot should
Oy vey.

I said nu, I said nu, I said nu, I said
Oy just like a, just like a Yiddishe maidel should.

I said nu, I said nu, I said nu, I said
Oy just like a, just like a Yiddishe maidel should.

[yabed]

Basically, this is the view that the Cohanim have when a girl goes throuth the SOTA ritual. Actually, this is the 'before' picture.

It is nice to know that we are up to date on our halacha l'maaseh pictures. It was hard to learn mishnayot without them.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Chabad likes Mountain Dew Sota.

[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

Yetzer, Yetzer, Rah! Rah! Rah!

Nice, YL.

[Radical Feminist]

I know plenty of smart and beautiful women that would LOVE to get a date with someone like Shmarya. Actually, I find that feminist men who advocate for child rights, and human rights and dignity tend to have alot less trouble getting a date with smart sexy women then the creeps who call them selves "religous", on this site.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thanks for your haskamah, OCR.

[Radical Feminist]

PS
What a lovely painting, who is the gifted artist? The lighting is beautiful.

[Radical Feminist]

EROTOPHOBIA: the fear of erotic images, or any behavior or action that might invoke an erotic/sexual thought or deed.
As a doctor I can't help but notice that the fear of human sexuality and the fear of being sexually aroused, seems to completely dominate the Haredi community. This fear of sex and sexual thoughts seems to have taken on an OCD type element. The more they try to NOT think about sex, avoid sexual contact or any action that might induce sexual thoughts, the more there lives are domianted by one thoguht only, HOW NOT TO THINK A SEXUAL THOUGHT.ie they think about sex all the time. And we all know what happens if you think a sexual thought right...?
What happens is you uh are thinking a sexual thought. I suggest you think it AND MOVE ON.

[Shmarya]

What a lovely painting, who is the gifted artist? The lighting is beautiful.

It's completely digital. I did it using a picture of Esti, and I changed the lighting and a few other things.

Thanks for your kind words!

[Yochanan Lavie]

RF: Sexual thoughts can lead to mixed dancing...

[artistRus]

From what i can perceive, it seems as if this beautiful women has just had a small momentarily uncomfortable encounter with someone close, she is trying to leave, however very reluctantly, her eyes are saying should I go back, it wasn't all bad after all, knowing full well of her beauty and sexuality, as she is partly naked (from what we can see).

Really Beautiful. Please produce more Shmarya, you can have a digital exhibition of your work, maybe even sell a few.

Anyone else see emotions in this picture?

[PishPosh]

Shmarya, that really your picture here. From your life experiences as related here I expected to see someone closer to 50-60. Anyways you look like a gingi haired Elliott Gould.

[WoolSilkCotton]

Fear of getting a stiffy seems to be a major preoccupation of our black hatted coreligionists.

Is choking the chicken kosher? Choking A chicken is definitely not.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Is choking the chicken kosher? Choking A chicken is definitely not.

Posted by: WoolSilkCotton | March 11, 2009 at 04:29 PM

To paraphrase Nixon: "If a rabbi does it, it's not unkosher."

[maven]

You may choke the chicken during kaporos before yom kippur. Or is there an entendre I'm missing here? You see, I wouldn't know, at yeshiva they cut out pictures of Golda Meir from Newsweek ;)

PishPosh: Isn't Elliott Gould around 60?

[itchiemayer]

Elliot Gould is probably 70!! Please stop with all the sex talk. I have been without for three years! However, Yochanan HaLevi's crack about rattling his grogger was pretty doggone funny.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thanks, Itchie, for your compliment. Re: your love life: TMI (too much information). ;)

[WoolSilkCotton]

Itchie baby, so sorry to hear about the 3 lean years.

From what you've told about yourself, you are a divorced guy about 40-50, who was given primary custody of his kids, which means you impressed the hell out of a matrimonial judge, which is not easy. You have a steady job running a large successful law firm in the midwest. You are well-liked by all, both in your real life and here in your virtual one. You are a bit shorter than you'd like to be, but so what. As long as you don't have a bizarro beard/hat/payos that makes you look like you need to be on Thorazine, you should be doing fine in the dating world.

You've saddled yourself with a ton of restrictions because of your Kohan status. Dating is hard enough even when you try to keep the field as wide as possible, but it sounds like you've put yourself in very narrow straits.

It's your decision, of course, but do consider broadening the playing field by reconsidering all the Kohan restrictions. G-d wants you to find happiness, but He also requires that you do it on your own, and not rely on Him to drop Ms. Bar Raphaeli at your front door. (Dear G-d, could ya help my friend Itchie out, just this once, please?)

As Dr. Phil says, do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?
As you probably know, jdate is a jungle of lies and deceit. Your best bet is meeting someone from work or a mutual friend fix-up. I am saying all this from years of trying to meet someone since I got divorced 9 years ago.

[Emesdi'ke Kanoi]

OOPS...looks like i stumbled upon a goyishe website...sorry

[WELL SAID E.K.]

all of you people that look at that picture (and have the disgusting gall to actually blog about it) can (and will) burn in hell....you people have the nerve to call yourselves JEWISH??? even M.O. Jews don't steep that low....hope you have a REEEAAALLLY good excuse after 120!!!

[WoolSilkCotton]

++March 11, 2009 at 09:10 PM++

Thank you, Well Said Fred, for wishing us 'til 120.

Maybe we're all just too sexy for Failed Messiah, too sexy for Failed Messiah, so sexy it hurts...

[WELL SAID E.K.]

woolsilkcotton....get to a psychologist..NOW

[Light]

I think Well Said Fred is just winding us up.

Observe:

all of you people that look at that picture

Which Fred has done also (how could he object to it if he hasn't looked at it?).

(and have the disgusting gall to actually blog about it)

Which he just did right here.

you people have the nerve to call yourselves JEWISH???

Or Jewish law does . . .

even M.O. Jews don't steep that low...

Regardless of whether or not MO Jews regularly take their tea down into the basement to steep it at as low an elevation as possible, what does this have to do with anything?

[WoolSilkCotton]

I don't think Well Said Fred 'got' my reference to the song by Right Said Fred.
Or maybe HE'S pulling MY leg.

[itchiemayer]

I think WSC knows me better than I do! WSC, I cannot compromise on the Kahuna. I accept my lot, I really do. It makes it more difficult, but all it takes is one.
If I accept with pride all the honors coming to a Kohen when times are good, and then run away from it out of convenience, then what would it have meant to me anyway?
B"H I have two beautiful, wonderful children, and if Hashem sends to me my bashert, then this would be the greatest thing that could happen to me. If he does not, then this is his will, and I accept that. Hey, does C-Girl have a sister? a friend? I have to do my hishtadlus, you know!

[michael ben drosai]

itchiemayer- yeyasher kochacha - hang tough - they don't call it the "big Kahuna" for nothing!

May Hashem fulfil your wishes and remove all obstacles from your path in meeting soulmate

[itchiemayer]

MBD - Amen!

[Yochanan Lavie]

Itchie: I hope you didn't take my good-natured teasing wrong. I hope and pray you find your beshert soon. You're a great catch for a young lady who wants a stable, mature, religious man.

[itchiemayer]

Yochanan HaLevi - Amen! Of course, I took it as good-natured ribbing. Anyway, nobody loves to laugh at himself anymore than I do!
Moreover, how could I be mad at my long lost cousin from Levi!

[WoolSilkCotton]

Hang in there, Itchie. Numerous women in our 'search' bracket have told me that it is very difficult to find a guy with a stable job and who is not a blatant meshugener. It's slim pickin's out there for single 40+ women.

A song parody based upon Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy"? Is that asking too much, Yochanan, if you have a few spare moments today?

[itchiemayer]

Thank you, my friend WSC!

[Yochanan Lavie]

When I have a moment, WSC.

[Yochanan Lavie]

I'm Too Frummie
Right Said Feibush

I'm too frummie for my shul too frummie for my shul
I'm going to leave it

I'm too frummie for my tallis too frummie for my tallis
So frummie it's malice
And I'm too frummie for Crown Hts too frummie for Crown Hts
Willy Burg and bnei Brak

And I'm too frummie for your chasunah
Too frummie for your chasunah
No way I'm mixed dancing

I'm a chiyock you know what I mean
And I do my little learn in the beis medrish
Yeah in the medrish on the medrish yeah
I do my little learn in the medrish

I'm too frummie for my kapote too frummie for my kapote
Too frummie by far
And I'm too frummie for my hat
Too frummie for my hat I don't care what you think about that

I'm a fanatic you know what I mean
And I do my little chumrot in the kehilla
Yeah on the kehilla on the kehilla yeah
I shake my little touchus and my milah

I'm too frummie for my too frummie for my too frummie for my

'Cos I'm a shabab you know what I mean
And I throw my little rocks at the ladies
Yeah at the cars on shabbos, nu?
I shake my little touchus at the chilonim

I'm too frummie for my cat too frummie for my cat
Poor ketzeleh, nebuch, ketzeleh
I'm too frummie for love too frummie for love
Love's going to leave me

And I'm too frummie for this song [sung by Lipa]

[WoolSilkCotton]

YL, my colleagues here at work are wondering why I just burst out laughing.

Thanks for another great classic parody!

[Yochanan Lavie]

You're welcome.

[Chicago Samson]

Your best song yet, you should consider making a CD for FM.

[Yochanan Lavie]

I can sing, and I think Shmarya can play instruments. The issue would be whether to pay royalties, or does parody/satire constitute fair use. It could get expensive.

[PishPosh]

M.A.S.H. era Elliott Gould

[Chicago Samson]

If you need a vocalist, count me in; I play some other instruments as well. talkshow host Rusty Humphries made such a CD, check out, "Thank Allah, I am a Jihad Boy"

http://americantruckersatwar.com/2008/09/21/everybody-is-sneakin-into-the-usa/

I think it is the second selection of the link.

Yochanan, you'll really love this piece. Maybe you can write a song called, Thank God I am a Haredi Boy, or a Thank Rebbe I am a Luba-boy.

Rusty is a good talk show host, but I enjoy talkshows like Russ (so much for good taste), largely because I enjoy contrarian points of view that challenge conventional wisdom, and attack intellectual or liberal fascism.

[Yochanan Lavie]

CS: I am a contrarian, too.

[Radical Feminist]

Need female back up singers? that is if you don't count the kol isha laws?

[Yochanan Lavie]

Kol isha is a bullshit chumra. The gemara just says that listening to a seductive female singer while you're trying to say shema is distractive, or something to that effect. Only a perv would get a hard-on listening to Ofra Chaza belt one out about Hashem, for example. So we're stuck with creepy, screetchy, homoerotic boys' choirs, instead.

[Chicago Samson]

I agree, Kol isha (or kol b'isha) is another example of a society that disrespects its women folk. Going back to what we mentioned earlier about the Kabbalah, the Ramban is also another source for the narrishkeit found in the Kabbalah that can best be described as misogynistic.

Commenting on the verse in Genesis 31:35, “I cannot rise for the way of the women is upon me,” Ramban explains: “the ancient ones in their wisdom knew that their breath harms and their sight makes a bad impression,” that is, even a glance from a woman at the time of her menstruation brings bad luck!"

In another passage:

"If she a menstruating woman gazes at a light brass mirror and continues to look at it, you will see in the mirror red drops as though drops of blood, for the evil nature which harms will give birth to rebuke and the evil air will infect the mirror” (Ramban, Leviticus 18:19)."

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BTW, Yochanan, What did you think of the Thank Allah I am a Jihad Boy song?

I am serious about the CD, I think it could be a nice fundraiser for FM, with yourself, Radical Feminist, myself, or others, this could be a lot of fun making this CD, who knows? It could be a big hit.

[Yochanan Lavie]

I haven't heard the song, but by the title, I'm sure I'd like it.

That stuff with the brass mirror reminds me of Perseus battling Medusa using his bronze shield as a mirror. Cherchez la femme.

I am willing to sing- it'll be a blast. I might have mentioned that Shmarya can play some instruments.

[Radical Feminist]

I don't think Rambam liked kitty cats either. I guess he thought kittens were agents of SATAN. Poor Kitty!
I use to have the source, but basically he thought they were worshipers of the devil because they chased after snakes and other slithering things.

[Yochanan Lavie]

RF: Do you mean Ramban? The Rambam was a rationalist; the Ramban a mystic.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Considering the number of responses to this post versus the one for Esti Ginzburg, Esti Mamo is the official FM Babe.

[Chicago Samson]

Yeah, Esti is one pretty Mama!

[Chicago Samson]

Here's an new response to the earlier part of the thread:

And you know what the favorite Priestly beverage used to be? Sotah Pop!

[Chicago Samson]

Here's a new response to the earlier part of the thread:

And you know what the favorite Priestly beverage is? Sotah Pop!

[neo-conservaguy]

think WSC knows me better than I do! WSC, I cannot compromise on the Kahuna. I accept my lot, I really do. It makes it more difficult, but all it takes is one.
If I accept with pride all the honors coming to a Kohen when times are good, and then run away from it out of convenience, then what would it have meant to me anyway?

From a historically critical perspective, it's hard to make any solid claims about family lineage of cohenim, other than an orally transmitted minhag within families. Even "obvious" family names such as "Katz" may not have that minhag; I know a man with that type of family name who's family minhag is "Levi", but not "Cohen". Quite simply, several hundred years of corruption (priesthood "sold" for money) and political (and real) battles between various Jewish factions have resulted in serious doubt as to anyone's claim to that lineage. No offense intended to those who value this part of their family minhag.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Neo: The Khazar nobility who converted made themselves into Cohanim and Levi'im. However, my assumed Levitical heritage is important to me. If moshiach tells me I'm wrong, I'll defer to him (or her).

An old joke:

A man tells the rabbi he wants to be a cohen. The man promises to donate $1 million to the shul if he gets this "promotion." The rabbi thinks about this. On the one hand, it's assur. On the other, the shul could really use the money. Finally, since no one knows for sure anyway, the rabbi mumbles something and says, "Mazal tov, you're now a Cohen! But why is it so important to you?" The man replies: "It's simple. My father was a cohen, my grandfather was a cohen..."

[itchiemayer]

The Levite and I are in agreement. My assumed priestly heritage is important to me, and I'll let the Moshiach make the final call. In the meantime, I would rather be safe than sorry. Interesting, I was in shul one shabbos with the visiting Rabbi Shaya Cohen, and I was shocked when I was called up for the first aliya. So then I thought he would be getting maftir. It turns out that he got Shlishi. One can never assume. If I would have named my son Yisroel Levi, he would have been Yisroel Levi Hakohen. In retrospect, I kind of think that it is a nice name!