#if memory serves

[angstinspace]

Doctor Who rewatch ➜ one three gifset(s) per episode

↳01.13 - The Parting of the Ways(part 3/3)

[themancorialist]

Salmon Street, Manchester.

[thepenumbrapodcast]

Big news yesterday, Travelers...

Not one new project, but TWO!

The audiobook for our Juno novel, If Memory Serves: A Juno Steel Mystery, starts releasing Oct 6, exclusively on our bonus content platform!

Then our next audio drama, Thirst, will begin next summer, 2025.

Want more info on the Juno novel, including its release plan and how it links to the podcast? Head on over to this post, where we've laid it all out for you. (The post is free, so you can read it even if you aren't a Patron.)

Want more info on Thirst? Well, we've got an eensy teensy little bit of that at the link above... but for the rest, you'll have to wait 😉

[moth-sapphic]

my only gripe with the hobbit movies is that they didn't include the dwarves taking turns carrying Bilbo on their backs through the goblin caves like in the book

[shiftythrifting]

I have no idea what this means, but the back was clear for a cell phone. Found at a Chicagoland Savers

[sernhuh]

If memory serves bitti....

HIS NAME IS JUNO STEEL

HE'S A PRIVATE I 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[hyperpotamianarch]

I'm going to say something provocative, entirely accurate but also useless: there is no such thing as a kosher or non-kosher menorah.

I don't just mean in the sense it's usually inedible. I mean that, halachically speaking, a Menorah isn't said to be kosher or not kosher. That is because there is no halachic definition of a menorah. Well, outside of the Temple Menorah, but that's not the topic. And before you ask, the Temple Menorah has kosher/non-kosher options, like being made of the wrong materials or not having the right amount of arms. But we're not talking about it.

A Hannukah menorah isn't technically kosher or non-kosher because the Mitzvah for Hannukah is lighting candles. There are rules for where and how to light these candles, but that doesn't technically amount to a Menorah being kosher or non-kosher. However, it is the reason this is a moot point: a Hannukah menorah that is built in a way that won't arrange the candles right is functionally useless - which you might call non-kosher. It doesn't matter if halachically speaking it's not really an entity that exists. However, because of what I mentioned, there might be theoretical uses of a "non-kosher" menorah for lighting Hannukah candles. So, if you have a Menorah with uneven candle holders, perhaps you can have multiple people light on it - if you're not doing the Mehadrin min HaMehadrin and don't add a candle for each day. While there is somewhere a question on the need in separating each person's candles... Well, the height can be a decent separator, don't you think?

Anyway, what are the requirements for a Hannukah candle? The most basic one would be the wicks and oils. Nowadays it's not too relevant, since most people just buy wax candles or olive oil ones made specifically for this purpose. However, practically every type of oil and every matter for the wick is acceptable. Wax, for the sake of this, is considered oil. You do need to have a single wick for each candle - unlike a Havdallah candle, which requires multiple flames, a Hannukah candle has to have just one. Important to note - no rule applies to the Shamash. It literally is only needed as an alternative source of light, and technically a street lamp is just as acceptable as an olive oil candle. The candles need to have enough oil to last for half an hour after the stars come out, and to be place where the wind won't blow them out. Preferably they will be, however, turned towards the street where people can see them.

The height is an interesting factor. IIRC, the candles need to be at least three palms above the ground, though I don't quite remember why. I do think I've heard some opinions it's preferable for them to be lower than ten palms. It's acceptable to put them at any height between that and twenty cubits, though - twenty cubits being the standard height the Talmud assumes you can't see from. The translation between those units and metric or imperial units in contested a bit, but three palms are approximately 27-30cm, a bit less than one foot for our American friends, so ten palms are more or less a meter (a bit over three feet, I believe), and twenty cubits are around ten meters. I'm not being accurate, I know, sorry.

All the candles of one person supposedly should be the same level, though I don't remember the details about it. The Shamash needs to be visibly separated, though not necessarily by height. I don't currently remember if they need to be in line - I'm fairly certain they don't have to.

Hmm. I probably need to brush up on my Hilchot Hannukah.

[ghost-bison]

I was going through an old to-do-list of mine and found this:

buy tiny dinosaur and name it William

make talismans

build fairy houses

dig out the dead bird and see if the skull is ready to be collected

drink water

get my nostrils pierced

go biking

What the fuck Eleonore