Comments on: Jewish St Kilda Football Club Heretics

By: BigbazZ

BigbazZ — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:44:41 +0000

David
I am waiting for you I sing kaddish with the amens being yellow and black amen

By: David Werdiger

David Werdiger — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:59:08 +0000

Streimelah,

Thank you for your kind and insightful comment. Consider yourself pre-forgiven for YK.

Don’t you ever let your shtreimel down? You are most welcome to join us for Simchat Torah.

By: Streimelah

Streimelah — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:40:03 +0000

David Werdiger writes, “As chazan on Simchat Torah eve in our shul, I have a custom of singing kadish to the tune of the AFL premier”

Gevald! Your hashkafas really stink!

By: frosh

frosh — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:23:36 +0000

Larry,

I love your graphical work!

Should you get sued by Mt Scopus, Galus Australis will be willing to spear-head the campaign to raise funds for your legal defence

By: David Werdiger

David Werdiger — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:28:43 +0000

Larry,

Watch out – you might get sued by Mt Scopus!

By: Larry Stillman

Larry Stillman — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:18:06 +0000

Wikipedia, which is infallible, contains the observation that the island of St Kilda may be derived from from Norse sunt kelda (“sweet wellwater”) — ie it should be the Mayanim or Mayim Metokim, but that sounds a bit wet (or the double Mems).

For my take on a logo, with an appropriate motto, see http://larryjhs.fastmail.fm/stkilda/

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:16:52 +0000

1. Obviously the letter Tzadi can stand for many things, but given that the word Tzadi itself is 5/6 of Tzadik, and that this letter is also sometimes called Tzaddik, Tzaddik would have to be the most likely word it would stand for.

2. Chassidic Rebbes are often described as Saints, or Tsaddikim, so I think it would be appropriate to refer to the team’s coach as the Kilderer Rebbe (unless that title has already been appropriated by the Chief Minister of the St Kilda Hebrew Congregation).

By: David Werdiger

David Werdiger — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:38:56 +0000

Of course to complete the “kosherisation”, you’d also have to change it from St Kilda to S. Kilda

By: David Werdiger

David Werdiger — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:45:56 +0000

Saints are beatified after they are dead, and there is evidence that they have performed miracles after being prayed to by humans.

Angels are only rarely based on humans, such as Elijah. We do mention angels in some prayers, and they act as advocates on our behalf. So I think they are the closest thing we have to saints.

By: frosh

frosh — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:08:14 +0000

Hi David,

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding Catholic theology (or Jewish theology for that matter), but saints are once living people who (posthumously) are anointed as Saints for the deeds they are deemed to have done while alive. As I understand it, Angels are not necessarily based on famous living human beings.

If time (and graphical skills) had permitted, I was going to remove the Latin slogan and replace it with Hebrew lettering

… something like “Chazak v’ Ne’emanut”
… or perhaps “Koach v’ Emet.”