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Athlete’s Footnotes
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The adult basketball league has
passed the mid-season point and
now it's time to take stock of
what’s been happening. One of the
highlights of this season was Ray
(the Hatchet) Blase breaking his
nose for the third time during a
hotly contested game. The broken
nose was bad enough but what
really irritated “the hatchet” was
when the doctor charged him fifty
bucks to tell him the same thing I
told him for nothing—that his
nose was broken.
In the scoring department Stu
(Fly) Heller dumped in the league's
high of SO points in one game. Stu
had 29 in the first half but fell
slightly off the pace in the second
half when a calcium deposit settled
in his shooting arm from over use.
Randy (Dick) Tracy followed
with 46 points, Bob (Bionic Man)
Feldberg with 36 points, Mark
(Ginger Ale) Hoffman with 35
points and Skip (quit picking on
me, ref) Weiland with 31 points.
Rookie of the year honors will
be between Steven (Slick)
Hirshorn and Mike (Perpetkal
Motion) Friedman.
Jerry (Mr. Jump Shot) Schwartz
may have a little more snow in his
hair but it hasn't affected his game.
Jerry is still one of the top scorers
in the league. Inthe runningforthe
most improved player is Barry
(Snake) Mitchell, Marty (Giraffe)
Levensteim and Ricky (Goose)
Tinter.
Candidates for most non-
improved players are Randy (I
never touched him, ref) Feinberg,
Miles (who me, ref?) Alexander,
Jerry (the screamer) Rosen, Gene
(Knees) Benator and Ed (Stock-
man) Mendel.
Nostalgia is: Ed (squat) Harelik
still shooting underhand foul shots
and Stan (Back brace) Sobel
swishing a two handed set shot
from the top of the key. Happiness
is Gary (Stretch) Levison scoring a
career high of six points, Paul (ex
commissioner) Weiner scoring the
first six points in a game, Steve
(present commissioner) Gruenhut
on a winning team, Bill (the
Bomber) Samuels hitting a long set
shot, Hy (the kid) Dorfman
beating big brother Larry (Mr. T)
for the second straight time and
Norm (Jocko) Lebedin being able
to play in the same league with his
son, Jeff (Jocko, Jr.).
Quiz Box
by Rabbi Samuel J. Fox
Why is H customary to cover the
Skabbos rhallahs with a cover om
the Sabbath table? ?
Several explanations are offered
by different sources for this
practice. One reason offered is that
covering the loaves makes them
appear to be something special for
the Sabbath and thus they are not
ordinary loaves of bread. This falls
into the general practice of making
everything we have for (he
Sabbath to be of special
significsmce.
A second reason given is that the
Sabbath loaves are representative
of the mannah which the Jews
consumed in the wilderness on
their way to the Promised Land.
The mannah was covered both
from above and beneath. Thus the
Sabbath loaves are enclosed
beneath by the table cloth and
above by the special cover.
The third reason, perhaps the
best known of all three, explains
that the Sabbath loaves are
covered because the procedure on
the Sabbath meal is different than
the procedure during the ordinary
days of the week. Usually, the
blessing is made over the bread as
the first act preceding the meal. On
the Sabbath, the blessing is first
made over the wine, the recitation
of the Kiddush. Therefore, the
bread which is the first thing
blessed on the weekdays if subject
to “embarrassment” by losing its
usual priority. The loaves are
therefore covered to avoid such
embarrassment. Obviously, such
an act is a model for interhuman
behavior and serves as an example
to teach us that we should avoid
embarrassing our fellow human
beings.
Why is h customary to express
the greeting “L X'heyim" (to life)
when drinking intoxicating
liquors?
There are at least two interesting
reasons for this practice. One
reason refers to the practice of
serving wine to mourners to ease
their grief. Likewise, defendants
who were to be executed were also
served wine to ease their concern.
To make sure that the drink taken
or offered otherwise is not a drink
referring to death, the expression
L'Chayim is offered.
The second reason has to do
with the offering of wine to ease a
person into talking. If the talk is of
no religious value, a person can
subtract from his life. If it is of
religious value, one doesn’t forfeit
his life.
Thus, upon drinking wine or
intoxicating beverages one offers
the expression of L'Chayim as a
sort of wish that the ensuing talk
will be of religious value to
_ enhance one’s life and not to forfeit
it.
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