Does the Rabbi stay up all night?
What’s the point?
And also, what’s the idea behind cheesecake?

There is a custom to study at night. If I weren’t teaching, I assume I wouldn’t stay up.
As for cheesecake, it has a deep and special significance: it tastes good.

With God’s help, 3 Sivan 5782

Perhaps cheesecakes symbolize “Gevini Karoz,” who would say at dawn: “Arise, priests, to your service; Levites, to your platform; and Israelites, to your station” (Yoma 20b). So too cheesecake reminds us of the heavenly voice that goes forth from Horeb and proclaims and calls upon people to engage in Torah, whose words nourish and are as tasty as milk and honey.

With blessings,
Elisaf Gershoni Bar-Tzuk

Heartfelt prayers????
I don’t believe it!!!

Friends, a little healthy cynicism never hurt anyone.

With God’s help, 20 Sivan 5782

To the Rabbi — greetings,

If because of your vegetarianism you are prevented from preparing a “third-grown calf” in order to mark that “Were it not for this day, how many Michaels would there be in the marketplace?” — then it is fitting that you express your joy over the giving of the Torah in heartfelt prayer, and thereby fulfill: “So will we render the words of our lips instead of bulls” 🙂

With blessings for receiving the Torah joyfully,
Simcha Fish” Halevi Plankton

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… in order to mark that “Were it not for this day…

The feeling of “were it not for that day” accompanies me all year, and especially on Shavuot. Truly. Here I am not being cynical.

With God’s help, 48th day of the Omer, 5782

And of interest to the poor man in that same matter, Rabbi Meir Mazuz says that among them they did not have the custom of eating a dairy meal on Shavuot, but they did have the custom at the morning kiddush of eating dairy ice cream, since “to declare in the morning Your kindness” forms the acronym milk. And “to declare” has the same letters as “ice cream.”

With blessings for refreshing sweetness,
Elyam Zusha Frishman

And one should add that it is written: “For I was envious of the boasters, when I saw the peace of the wicked” — the initials spell meat, and “among the boasters” has the numerical value of barbecue (123) 🙂

With God’s help, eve of the holy Sabbath, “Give us meat,” 5782

To 123 — greetings,

The “barbecue,” which comes to 123, corresponds to the years of Aaron, as Maimonides wrote that the congregation answers “Hallelujah” 123 times corresponding to the years of Aaron. And the “barbecue” is designated for the days on which the Hallel is completed; and your mnemonic is: they gave tidings to my completors 🙂

With blessings for a good final sealing,
Shneur Yekutiel Zehavi

A good sign.
[How the meat idea came about: a search brought up all the verses in which consecutive words have initials spelling meat. I took a list of words connected to meat (such as steak, omelet, coals, roasting, etc.) and took the words of all the verses with numerical values in one list and searched for the closest match until one came out.]

And the main thing with a “barbecue” is to fulfill “stir the embers,” to keep the ember from going out or dying down, as it is said: “The Merciful One desires the heart” — the heart and the wind that stirs it — and then there is fulfilled: “And the manna was like coriander seed” [= white coriander seed], “and its appearance like bdellium” (which one fans), “and its taste was like cakes fried in honey” and the finest honey 🙂

With blessings,
Yiftach Kadmoni Buch-Trager