[lbo-talk] umbrellas and hasidism

Campaign for Peace and Democracy cpd at igc.org
Tue Mar 31 09:20:16 PDT 2009


Shag, maybe you could ask one or two of your neighbors why they don't carry an umbrella. Maybe ask them when it's raining, so the question is very much in context. --Joanne Landy

At 08:52 AM 3/31/2009 -0700, you wrote:
>thanks to everyone for helpful comments about why hasidic and orthodox
>jews don't carry umbrellas. and i like that way of thinking about it,
>Michael: hasidic jews just do it 13 times more than necessary which
>explains why no one is carrying on umbrella on trips to the temple on
>non-sabbath days. i suppose, for them, every day is sabbath? i really must
>get one of those books out about jasidism so I can better understand some
>of my neighbors.
>
>ta,
>
>shag
>
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