Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know that December 25, 2011 is now long past, but if you still are in the holiday spirit you will be 100% entertained by Jeremy Safron's latest and greatest.
For entertainment sake, Mr. Safron is fully there, but if you start to think about it on a deeper level, there is much greatness to his message. Spread more rainbows, remember the promise, and always smile, smile, smile. Oh, and of course always Speak Nicely.
Surely, Mr. Safron is somehow familially connected to Jonathan Safran Foer. Oy, still must finish Eating Animals.
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Showing posts with label Safran. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Getting Raw. Getting Back to the Land in a Final Frontier of our Good Ole U.S. of A.
Getting back to our roots as at least partially a blog about Jewish names, we are currently interested in the last name Safron.
We have mentioned one Safran who has hit popular culture big time. But we didn't get terribly into its meaning.
We have now come across a Jeremy with the last name Safron, and we venture to think that the names are related and they are simply different spellings.
(side note: How can we really trust what we can grab on the Internet? We need an Onomast. We also should read this article about Jewish names. Dr. Aaron Demsky is the person who could make sense of any of this. Safran and Safron the same thing? Does the Jewish version really lead to the yellow spice (this site states the "Jewish name is mainly ornamental," leading us to believe no connection there for the Jews)? Umm.. can folks with this family name in the Jewish world lay claim to the Safran family crest? Nah...that last part doesn't sound terribly kosher. It's not like we come from Sheffield, Shetland or Stuart stock. Those are all Other S's.)
Our humble guess is that Safran and Safron are connected to the Jewish name root Shapiro, which comes from the word "sofer," meaning scribe (our trustworthy torah, mezuzah and tefillin writers of yesteryear...add in another item writable on parchment and you get the whole megillah).
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(side note: No, neither Hanna nor Barbera were Jewish, but Barbera was born on the Lower East Side and presumably grew up around many Jews, having been exposed to the word megillah possibly while frolicking the halls of Erasmus Hall High School . Just our guess....)
Back to Safran-Safron-Sofer connection:
You get variations such as Schapiro (as in the wine), Sapir, Safer (as in Morley), Shufro, Shaefer (as in the beer, but highly unlikely those were Jews), Shaffer (as in Paul)...have you caught on to our groove yet?
Now back to Jeremy Safron.
He's a raw foodist, a pioneer in the raw food world. He is an inventor. He is youthful. He is into video games and martial arts, in a peaceful way, if you can imagine that. He bottles Living Clay (reminds us of Dead Sea mud, no?). He created the most delicious snack food, PowerWraps (he sold his idea), which we are trying to get more New Yorkers to enjoy. Would you believe you can only get them in one spot in NYC? Jeremy lives in one of the most beautiful places in our country on the island of Maui. Like all good hippies, we were there in 2002. We have visited the town of Paia, picked up necessities for our week, saw the road to Haiku up on the right before the infamous Road to Hana begins, spent time at the Tradewinds Cottages, hiked into the Bamboo Forest, and even ate a fresh meat coconut cut by Mike with a machete (for $5...we were ok with that). How can we forget the vintage bubble letter name mugs produced by Carmel-by-the-Sea that were hanging at Grandma's Coffee (they aren't for sale, just for use by locals...good thing we still have our own from 1980)
Perhaps we could have simplified the above-written paragraph into a haiku of our own.
Or not.
Amazing stuff way out there.
And a whole lotta Jews, too.
Further to our point: we are all linked and and if we seek out the goodness on the earth (as you might know, Ram Dass is doing much better than he had and is running his retreats), the earth will be a better place. So glad to learn that, indeed, the former Richard Alpert has met with Reb Zalman.
At long last, we present Jeremy Safron, author of The Raw Truth: The Art of Preparing Living Foods. We believe very much in illumination, however we do believe that Everything truly is connected.
We have mentioned one Safran who has hit popular culture big time. But we didn't get terribly into its meaning.
We have now come across a Jeremy with the last name Safron, and we venture to think that the names are related and they are simply different spellings.
(side note: How can we really trust what we can grab on the Internet? We need an Onomast. We also should read this article about Jewish names. Dr. Aaron Demsky is the person who could make sense of any of this. Safran and Safron the same thing? Does the Jewish version really lead to the yellow spice (this site states the "Jewish name is mainly ornamental," leading us to believe no connection there for the Jews)? Umm.. can folks with this family name in the Jewish world lay claim to the Safran family crest? Nah...that last part doesn't sound terribly kosher. It's not like we come from Sheffield, Shetland or Stuart stock. Those are all Other S's.)
Our humble guess is that Safran and Safron are connected to the Jewish name root Shapiro, which comes from the word "sofer," meaning scribe (our trustworthy torah, mezuzah and tefillin writers of yesteryear...add in another item writable on parchment and you get the whole megillah).
The Magilla Gorilla Show
Uploaded by AH3RD. - Full seasons and entire episodes online.
(side note: No, neither Hanna nor Barbera were Jewish, but Barbera was born on the Lower East Side and presumably grew up around many Jews, having been exposed to the word megillah possibly while frolicking the halls of Erasmus Hall High School . Just our guess....)
Back to Safran-Safron-Sofer connection:
You get variations such as Schapiro (as in the wine), Sapir, Safer (as in Morley), Shufro, Shaefer (as in the beer, but highly unlikely those were Jews), Shaffer (as in Paul)...have you caught on to our groove yet?
Now back to Jeremy Safron.
He's a raw foodist, a pioneer in the raw food world. He is an inventor. He is youthful. He is into video games and martial arts, in a peaceful way, if you can imagine that. He bottles Living Clay (reminds us of Dead Sea mud, no?). He created the most delicious snack food, PowerWraps (he sold his idea), which we are trying to get more New Yorkers to enjoy. Would you believe you can only get them in one spot in NYC? Jeremy lives in one of the most beautiful places in our country on the island of Maui. Like all good hippies, we were there in 2002. We have visited the town of Paia, picked up necessities for our week, saw the road to Haiku up on the right before the infamous Road to Hana begins, spent time at the Tradewinds Cottages, hiked into the Bamboo Forest, and even ate a fresh meat coconut cut by Mike with a machete (for $5...we were ok with that). How can we forget the vintage bubble letter name mugs produced by Carmel-by-the-Sea that were hanging at Grandma's Coffee (they aren't for sale, just for use by locals...good thing we still have our own from 1980)
Perhaps we could have simplified the above-written paragraph into a haiku of our own.
Or not.
Amazing stuff way out there.
And a whole lotta Jews, too.
Further to our point: we are all linked and and if we seek out the goodness on the earth (as you might know, Ram Dass is doing much better than he had and is running his retreats), the earth will be a better place. So glad to learn that, indeed, the former Richard Alpert has met with Reb Zalman.
At long last, we present Jeremy Safron, author of The Raw Truth: The Art of Preparing Living Foods. We believe very much in illumination, however we do believe that Everything truly is connected.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The 11:11 Phenomenon, or Numerical Synchronicity
The Whole Phamily has taken an informal poll of real-life friends, and asked if they have experienced the recurring phenomenon of looking at a digital clock and seeing their numeric birthday. For example, if their birthday is July 16th, they often look at the clock and see the numbers 07:16.
Apparantly other people in cyberspace agree, and to some, this is called the 11:11 Phenomenon.
What in the world does this have to do with the Whole Phamily, which is exploring the interconnectivity of Judaism, names and beyond?
We believe that everything is connected. Indeed, Jonathan Safran Foer, with a totally funkadelic website that evokes interconnectivity, and one of the leading Jewish writers of our day, asserts that Everything is Illuminated in one of his novels. There is something to be said for numbers and names and how they are connected.
We are certainly not expects in the Zohar, the book of Kabbalah that is traditionally studied by men aged 40 years and up (this is when it was deemed certain that a Jewish man would be well-versed in the Torah and could therefore handle the intensity of its deep world truths). Obviously various popular culture stars (yes, you, Madonna) ignore that, but obviously people are seeking out truth in age-old wisdom. Indeed, Jewish astrology is very real, and very much happening as we write and you read.
Doubtful that as large a group of our immigrant ancestors to North America from Minsk, Pinsk, the Pale of Settlement, Damascus, Aleppo or Alexandria were exposed to these concepts as the Jewish community is today. Yes, the scholars were educated in deep metaphysical mysteries of the world, but not the average mama of eight children trying to get food on the table.
Today when you think of a favorite number combination and then later see it as a total on a store receipt from buying your day's groceries, realize that it's not totally random, and Judaism has a lot to say about that.
Do you look at the clock a lot these past nearly ten years and see 09:11?
On a positive note, the Whole Phamily thinks it's great when the time comes up as 6:13.
Apparantly other people in cyberspace agree, and to some, this is called the 11:11 Phenomenon.
What in the world does this have to do with the Whole Phamily, which is exploring the interconnectivity of Judaism, names and beyond?
We believe that everything is connected. Indeed, Jonathan Safran Foer, with a totally funkadelic website that evokes interconnectivity, and one of the leading Jewish writers of our day, asserts that Everything is Illuminated in one of his novels. There is something to be said for numbers and names and how they are connected.
We are certainly not expects in the Zohar, the book of Kabbalah that is traditionally studied by men aged 40 years and up (this is when it was deemed certain that a Jewish man would be well-versed in the Torah and could therefore handle the intensity of its deep world truths). Obviously various popular culture stars (yes, you, Madonna) ignore that, but obviously people are seeking out truth in age-old wisdom. Indeed, Jewish astrology is very real, and very much happening as we write and you read.
Doubtful that as large a group of our immigrant ancestors to North America from Minsk, Pinsk, the Pale of Settlement, Damascus, Aleppo or Alexandria were exposed to these concepts as the Jewish community is today. Yes, the scholars were educated in deep metaphysical mysteries of the world, but not the average mama of eight children trying to get food on the table.
Today when you think of a favorite number combination and then later see it as a total on a store receipt from buying your day's groceries, realize that it's not totally random, and Judaism has a lot to say about that.
Do you look at the clock a lot these past nearly ten years and see 09:11?
On a positive note, the Whole Phamily thinks it's great when the time comes up as 6:13.
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