Soccer Dad

It's Biur Time

A couple of Biur Chametz posts I wanted to comment on.
Politically, Biur sounds similar to me. The only difference I see is that he voted for Bush 41 over Clinton and I voted for Clinton. I was very uncertain 12 years ago. What seemed to be the hatred that President Bush 41 and James Baker had for Israel made it very hard to support that administration. In addition, I didn't see Bush 41 as being particularly conservative. So I voted for Clinton.
I regret that. There is a difference between a moderate Republican and a moderate Democrat and I don't like the direction Clinton went. He was, however, better than I could imagine Kerry being. And in terms of Israel, I don't care how often Peace Now and its allies claimed that Clinton was the best friend Israel ever had in the White House, his acceptance and legitimization of Arafat did more damage to Israel than anything I can imagine the Bush/Baker team doing.
On a lighter note, he notes that a Hebrew musical group is setting a Halachic ruling to music in "They're running out of lyrics". It's not the first time it's happened, one of the more popular wedding tunes is "How do we dance before the bride ..." ("Keitzad merakdin lifnei hakallah ...")
In my sillier moments I've notice that the tune could be transferred to another Mishnah: "How are the witnesses impeached." ("Keitzad ha-eidim na-asim zomemin...")