The Last Post Wins!!!!!

[Blessed peace he/him]

3 hours ago, Ookla the Kirby Master said:

Good morning.

In what time zone 6pm (GMT) is morning?

[Silva]

Good evening.

[Blessed peace he/him]

@Silva easy fast, mine starts in two hours.

 

Siege starts, Walls fall.

Famine corrupt, sword kill.

House burn, a nation exiled.

Edited December 18, 2018 by Ookla the ingenious

[Silva]

You too. I've got about 10 1/2 hours left to drink water. י' בטבת, why must you exist? 

At least it's not a super long one.

[Alvron]

3 hours ago, Ookla the ingenious said:

In what time zone 6pm (GMT) is morning?

That would be 7am here in NZ

[whattheHoid she/her]

Good evening. It is 8:16 p.m. here. I believe I am in Eastern Standard Time.

Also, good luck with your fast, @Silva! Is this the holiday where you have a special meal to commemorate someone/thing, Moses?, like at Passover? I don't mean to offend, I am genuinely curious.

[Silva]

8:31 here. Also EST.

Not quite a holiday I'm afraid . So no special foods or customs besides not eating anything. It's a commemoration of the day when Jerusalem was put under siege, I think. There are a lot of fasts - all remembering different tragedies and the like. This time of year after Chanukah is pretty much holiday-less, next one is in March (?), though it varies year by year depending on how the calendars line up.

No offense taken. Explaining strange Jewish stuff I do is always pretty fun.

[whattheHoid she/her]

Oh!? Cause isn't there presents involved with Chanukah? Do you get them before or after the fasting? My parents are Catholic and I do remember quite a bit of fasting and fish! 

[Silva]

*searches for the miscommunication*

Right. Sorry. That was a tad confusing.

The 8th night of Chanukah was last week. And there were presents and/or money involved. 

This fast, Asarah b'tevet, is seperate. It's for something that happened in a different year than the events of what the celebration of Chanukah is for. 

Edited December 18, 2018 by Silva
Fact-checked.

[Blessed peace he/him]

1 minute ago, Silva said:

8:31 here. Also EST.

Not quite a holiday I'm afraid . So no special foods or customs besides not eating anything. It's a commemoration of the day when Jerusalem was put under siege, I think. There are a lot of fasts - all remembering different tragedies and the like. This time of year after Chanukah is pretty much holiday-less, next one is in March (?), though it varies year by year depending on how the calendars line up.

No offense taken. Explaining strange Jewish stuff I do is always pretty fun.

Not a holiday yet. @Silva. it is as you said it's the day Nebuchadnezzar of babylon laid siege to Jerusalem about 2500 years ago. It took him a year and half (i think) to breach the walls.

Generally there are six fasts all year round.

The first is right after the Jewish new year, in remembernce to an assassination that led to the total desolation of the Holly Land.

Second is yom Kippur wich I'm not going to explain now.

Third is today, tomorrow your time.

Forth is in remembernce of a Holocaust like event that was prevented in the nick of time. It comes with the next holiday.

Spoiler

Four months ahead of us.

Fifth is the day the wall was breached in the above mentioned siege.

Sixth is the day that (on almost 500 years interval) the temple upon temple mount was destroyed.

In all the Jews are forbidden to eat and drink, on the sixth one known as tish'a be'av we are olso forbidden to shower and wear leather shoes.

Does that slack your thirst for knowledge?

[+Ark1002]

Winning again!

[Silva]

1 minute ago, Ookla the ingenious said:

In all the Jews are forbidden to eat and drink, on the sixth one known as tish'a be'av we are olso forbidden to shower and wear leather shoes.

And sit on normal height chairs.

I'm impressed @Ookla the ingenious. How do you remember when they all are as well what they all are for? 

[+Ark1002]

He probably looked them up...

[Silva]

Possibly. But he did forget one, so that's a sign of human error.

[Blessed peace he/him]

@Silva do you know Chabad? I'm that. so...

you get the idea.

And actually there is a trick, all you need to remember is:

איש, אישה. שחור, לבן. ארוך, קצר

גדליה, אסתר. תשעה באב, כיפור. י"ז בתמוז, עשרה בטבת

So the sign is:

Man, woman. Black, white. Long, short.

Man is the first in the above post.

Woman is the forth.

Balck is the sixth.

White is the second.

Long is the fifth. 

Short is the third. which i start in 10 minutes.

And what have i forgot @Silva?

[+Ark1002]

Wait, what? I'm really confused.

[Blessed peace he/him]

@Ark1002 the point is it's my occupation to know all the nitty gritty details of Jewish lore and law.

[+Ark1002]

Oh... that's a job?

[Blessed peace he/him]

Not for me, I'm a student still. And I've studied seven dedicated years of learning 10-12 hours a day.

[+Ark1002]

Uh.... wow. *Backs away slowly* That's... a really long time.

[Blessed peace he/him]

Think of it just like Martial Arts, @Ark1002.

you become competent after a year or two, and can get a black belt in several years, but you always keep practicing and it takes a lifetime to truly master every aspect of it.

[+Ark1002]

Put it that way and I'm no longer as scared.

[whattheHoid she/her]

Wow! Are you studying theology? Like to be a Rabbi? Do you get superpowers studying that much? Do you see Concentrationspren around you all the time? And thanks for the info! Really neat! My holidays consist of opening presents and my "religion" consists of staring up in space going wow! I'm alive! ....is that an alien spaceship? Perpendicularity? Wormhole? Much philosophical ponderings.

[+Ark1002]

WINNING

[Silva]

8 hours ago, Ookla the ingenious said:

And what have i forgot @Silva?

The one for only firstborn males before Pesach. It has some fancy name.

8 hours ago, Ookla the ingenious said:

do you know Chabad?

*lives around three houses down from her local Chabad*

Chabad's almost everywhere. It'd be pretty hard not to.