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Of Making Many Books

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end (Ecclesiastes 12:12) A pdf version of this essay  can be downloaded here [*] Years in brackets refer to an individual’s or book author’s year of birth Thought experiment for the day: Anyone born 1945 would be pushing towards 80 and mostly past their prime. So name any Charedi sefer written by someone born post war that has or is likely to enter the canon, be it haloche, lomdus, al hatorah or mussar. Single one will do for now — IfYouTickleUs (@ifyoutickleus) July 27, 2022 A tweet in the summer which gained some traction asked for a book by an author born from 1945 onwards that has entered the Torah and rabbinic canon or is heading in that direction. I didn't exactly phrase it this way and some quibbled about 'canonisation'. The word does indeed have a precise meaning though in its popular use it has no narrow definition. Canonisation, or ‘entering the canon’ is generally understood to...

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The last letter is worth a mention too and I still cannot decide if it was written tongue in cheek.

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  1. Could you please upload the letter where Mr Posen tells everyone how many more hours they should work to get the maximum in benefits, and that 'everyone shouldn't change their hours at the same time'?

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  2. Means helium balloons.

    If they fly up to the ceiling they'll charge you to recover them

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  3. Martin the schvitser27 March, 2012 19:21

    Considering the weekly content of that letter column I assure you it was not tongue in cheek.

    The hall is also used by the school, so presumably the school has a condition with simchas nesuin that is not too happy to have balloons floating around the roof during school assemblies etc. The ceiling being the height it is, it would only be possible to remove them using costly specialist apparatus.

    I would imagine that in the contract simchas nessuin clarify that the will be a fee if balloons need to be removed. If it is not in the contract then clearly it is unenforceable.

    Source: Common sense.

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  4. Is there anway that the helium balloon removal service could be privatised as I can see it is a rather lucrative sideline??????!!!!!!!!

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