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[Opinions] Re: WDYTO Hillel?

by brilliantblue

5/18/2008, 10:03 AM

Well, I always see it as the college organization (or a Hillel sandwich), so it's really hard to put it on a person. I do love Hallela for a girl.

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- lolly (guest) +5

5/18/2008, 10:12 AM

A Hillel sandwich?! Oh... I suppose since my first association with it has always been Hillel Slovak, it's been easy to imagine on a person. Good to know about the sandwich, though. That changes things.

- brilliantblue +4

5/18/2008, 10:14 AM

well, it's not technically a *sandwich* sandwich, but at Passover, you take two small pieces of matzah and put bitter herbs (usually horseradish) between them, and eat it in remembrance of Hillel the Elder. It's a horrible taste.

- lolly (guest) +3

5/18/2008, 10:16 AM

Oh, I was imagining poor Hillel walking into a Subway and seeing an advertisement for a Hillel Sandwich and hiding his head in shame.

- brilliantblue +2

5/18/2008, 10:22 AM

ahhhh hahahahaha. No. Hillel sandwich is not like a Reuben or another name that got stuck on food. didn't mean to give you that impression! It's just that I hear Hillel and Passover is all I can think about. This might have less applicability to other people, though, since I'm a fairly strict Jew (my friends have labelled me "Conservadox," lol).

- Schezar (guest) +1

5/18/2008, 10:57 AM

Yeah, I didn't know that at all. My family is not Jewish, I just like Jewish names. So the sandwich thing doesn't bug me or change the fact that Hillel is my #1 boy name. :)

- brilliantblue

5/18/2008, 6:16 PM

Whatever floats your boat!

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