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brother-in-law seen as chief architect of, 276
traffic laws, obedience to, 283-85 downside and upside of, 284-85
Travolta, John, 122
TreeHugger web magazine, 304
T. rex:
blood vessels found in bone of, 60 vegetarian incisors of, 57
truth telling, 6, 53-54, 55
about biblical observance, 171 in Julie's new mind-reading game, 291-92
see also lies, lying
Tsedaka, Benyamim, 216-19
"tumah," mistranslation of, 50
Twain, Mark, on not letting those people go, 201-2
25th Hour, 131
twins, biblical:
Jacob and Esau, 237-40, 316-17 Perez and Zerah, 147, 315
twins, Jacobs:
AJ and Julie informed about, 158-59
birth of, 314-15
circumcision of, 317-21; see also circumcision
combativeness of, in utero, 237 gender revealed, 206-7
mentally preparing for, 229-30
Tyndale, William, execution of, 13
Unauthorized Version, The (Lane), 176
Unitarians, 256
universe, age, size, and light rays of, 60-61
upper respiratory disorders, as excuse for not touching women, 16
Upper West Side, 234
AJ as the Gandhi of, 8
elderly adulterer cornered in, 92-93
gleaning innovatively attempted in, 167
rare opportunity for good deed in, 249
turning heads in, 122-23, 169
Uriah, David's wronging of, 195
vegetarianism, 110, 117
universally observed until Noah,
307
Vilna Gaon, 70, 163, 199
virgins:
consequences of sleeping with, 135
how to look upon, 132
vitalism, 248
Volchok, Martha, 235
Walden Walking Stick, 234
Wallis, Rev. Jim, 67, 269-70
Wall Street Journal, front page of, 106 Warm Blankets Orphan Care
International, 272
warriors, beards as possible head
handles on, 223
Watson Adventures (scavenger hunts),
157-58, 338
Weinberg, Noah, on life as jigsaw
puzzle, 112
Weisman, Charles, 292-93
theocratic and racial dreams of,
293
Welch, Thomas, temperance advocacy
of, 231
West Bank, 217, 219
Western Wall, 227
binding tefillin on tourists at, 103,
221
high-voltage faithful at, 220 West Wing, The, 202-3
"What Does the Bible Really Teach?"
(Witness booklet), 75
"What Jesus Said about
Homosexuality," 266
When Good Men Are Tempted
(Perkins), 287, 288
white garments, 122-23, 300, 329 buoyancy experienced in, 167 celebrated wearers of, 122
darkening of, 167, 304
verbal equivalent of, 157
Whitfield, Daniel, biblical wine study
of, 232, 233
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, AJ's
ill-fated appearance on, 58, 276 Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell),
98
Why the Ten Commandments Matter
(Kennedy), 54-55
widows and orphans, confirmed,
offering cash to, 6
Wikipedia, 200, 214
Williams, Venus, pagan namesake of,
17
Wills, Garry, on Dominionist
influence, 293
Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory,
Natalie's bat mitzvah theme
as, 325
wine:
biblical views contradictory on,
231-33
Noah's imbibing of, 242-43 winkers, biblical warning to, 205 wireless piggybacking, 112-13, 138,
139
Wisconsin, Jews as "frozen chosen"
in, 36
witchcraft, penalty for, 91
Wolfe, Tom, AJ as biblical version of,
122
women:
avoiding unnecessary contact
with, 16, 229
best to stay out of clothes of, 15,
39
discussing monthly cycles with,
49, 240-41
ex-uncle's postprandial ritual
denied to, 224-25
Hasidic wallflowering of, 85, 87 how they came to be, 213, 322 Israelite husbands' rights to, 135 not permitted to speak in
churches, 328, 341
octogenarian and touchable, 249 prudent ways to think about, 28,
129
turned on by bad-boy things, 137 when biblical correctness requires
severing hand of, 111
Woods, Mary and Rick, 168
words:
B-, in Song of Solomon, 134; see
also forbidden words
biblical, verily, 99
final, 11-12
in Jasper's vocabulary, 26, 144, 152 no making of, on Sabbath, 72 "prehistoric," creationists'
rejection of, 61
rationing of, 157
"reverential," two-day high
produced by, 180
work:
Bertrand Russell's classification
of, 80
in building sukkah, 78-80
not working as, 251
Worldwide Church of God, 121
yarmulkes, 85
bald spots concealed by, 4 lack of mentions in the Bible of,
70
Yemenite Jews, world's sole kosher cricket favored by, 338
Yom Kippur, 78
done cluelessly and alone, 214 kaparot atonement rite on eve of, 160-65; see also chickens, ritual
Yossi (spiritual adviser), 93-94, 171, 182-83, 214
AJ at hot fashion show with, 286-88
parable of the two praying guys told by, 208, 219
story of Esther discussed with, 207
tefillin wrapping demonstrated by, 198
Zappa, Frank, 194
Zerah and Perez, 147, 31 --SWC
About the Author
A. J. Jacobs is the New York Times best-selling author of The KnowIt-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. He is the editor at large at Esquire magazine, for which he wrote the article "My Outsourced Life." He has also written for the New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City. You can visit his website at ajjacobs.com.
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