Month: October 2010
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I’m still too young to be a grumpy old man
this just in from the New Zealand news website Stuff Britons find being older than 52 is nothing to laugh about because that’s the age when they start becoming grumpy, according to a survey on Friday. The poll of 2000 Britons found those over 50 laughed far less than their younger counterparts and complained far… Read more
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Ralbag on Noach
Ralbag (Rabbi Levi ben Gershon) has a very interesting explanation of the Tower of Bavel. He says that they really didn’t do anything wrong, except that G-d wanted them to spread around the world, rather than stay in one place. Why did they need to spread over the world? He writes that if they were… Read more