Shabbos Parshas Tazria 5768

29 Adar 2 5768

Washington Heights - New York City

Erev Shabbos
Sunset 7:24 pm
Nightfall 8:06

Shabbos Day
SUNRISE 6:32 am
Sof Zman Krias Shema (GRA) 9:45
Sof Zman Tefilah (GRA) 10:49
MIDDAY 12:58 pm
Plag HaMinchah 6:04
SUNSET 7:25
Nightfall 8:07 (8:50 Rabbeinu Tam)

Shlomo Katz plays the relevant song
(props to the percussion man here as well).
Today I found the holy videos of Rabbi Katz on youtube.

I Want You

Sweet song. Even the covers are respectable (see below).
First Marvin Gaye & Band get into "I want you".
Then a strange looking dude gets my respect with his cover.
After that, a white girl lets it be known that see does in fact want you
(note the chashuv guitar intro).

Saudi Author Zaynab Hifni appears on TV and wow!

This lady can hold her own.

Dramatics - What You See Is What You Get (Watts, L.A. 1972)

Tonight I made onions and meatballs in olive oil and red wine, and it was served over potato kigel, very tasty.
Real as real can get. The song and the opening sequence of the movie together are suberb, and well, dramatic. All good though. The movie is definately something to experience. I used to have a copy on VHS but a friend borrowed it and never gave it back or some stupid shit like that. and all that went down in high school which concluded 10 years before.

Rabbi Brovender learns the Mishnah Berurah on the Internet!

He mentions the Chayei Adam (50:15) and the Mishnah Berurah (210 note 1) cites the Chayei Adam as being in accord with the custom of the people (not to say the blessing afterwards).

How to rob a bank Woody Allen Style

Funny scene from 1969's Take the Money and Run.

Zappa - Montana (Sweden 1973)

Clash of Civilizations

This is interesting. Two approaches to an interesting topic.

Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years (1966)

Well I tried to make an important call to a foreign country and it didn't work. so now everyone has to listen to this. Dig the intro. I once played Howlin' Wolf for my humanities class at state and it was cool, but I didn't feel like my comrades were hip...like they weren't really alive or something.

NYC (Don't Know Why I Love You) by Gil Scott Heron

This is a hip song and it fits perfectly on the matter. Listen carefully and dig.

HEATWAVE - ALWAYS AND FOREVER (live)

This song comes from the late night radio program. Teenage tears in your pillow and the girl you
never talked to, but loved desperately. And then there were the times this song was played at junior and senior high school dances...'slow jams' they called them in my time, but earlier it appears they were known as 'slow drags'. So always and forever.

Marvin Gaye - Come Get To This (Live In Oakland)

And its supposedly in Oakland! Dig it on the general principle though.

CHAMBERS BROTHERS - PEOPLE GET READY

This is a serious classic. It is a cover of a song by the Impressions. These guys were hip and the song is well known. My parents have this record as well, and for a few years I had a cassette of that record, and it skipped some in the beginning on the song.

GIL SCOTT HERON - "IS THAT JAZZ" live (1-20-08)

I was at this show (1-20-08 in NYC) and it was classic. I randomly heard on WNYC that he was performing for MLK Jr. Day and I bought the ticket. He is a living legend and a big influence on my life. I first heard his Winter in America (1974) album that my parents had, and in the 9th grade the family went to see him live in a club that no longer exists in Emeryville, California. I bought his 1994 album Spirits and the rest is history. I encourage everybody to investigate the matter further and dig it in your own time. After all you don't really have a choice, his music is fundamental to the story of music in America in the last generation. All who can afford it must purchase the album Winter in America (1974) and put it on their ipods and take it in.