Glen B. Glater
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Words of wisdom from *my* mentor...
--glen
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:42:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: introducing a new queen
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If you have relatively new brood, then you have a queen. Your most
likely scenerio is that they swarmed and they are now getting
themselves set up for their own new queen. If you are wrong, and for
whatever reason she is gone, then the longer you wait the more likely
it is that the workers will start laying drones. Once that happens,
they are very unlikely to accept a new queen.
My mentor, Mr. LaBrake used to tell me that the only sure way to find
a queen is to look at the spot where she is. If that doesn't work for
you, go into the hive being very careful not to disturb any queen
cells that might be hatching.located. If you find one, go away and
hope for the best. If you don't, my inclination by this time of the
year would be to combine the hives. Use the newspaper trick and put
the queenless box on the good hive and let them eat their way to each
other through the newspaper.
I went into my hives on Sunday and rearranged everything so that the
brood was below and the honey above. I hope they will keep it that
way. I found one queen but couldn't find the other. It is my
suspicion that they swarmed last Shabbos. They had been making a big
racket. If I am lucky, they will requeen themselves though I will
inevitably lose a lot of momentum.
r
>I'm pretty sure that I"m queenless in one hive. What is your advice
>for introducing a new queen? Should I look for the old one first?
>
>How can I find her?
>
>--glen
>
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A beautiful and so true Dick saying:
"Even nice bees die if they run out of food and the beekeeper doesn't
notice."
--glen
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> Vinnie has northern buckfasts. They were very nice bees last year.
>
>But died in the over-winter?
Even nice bees die if they run out of food and the beekeeper doesn't notice.
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more questions, more answers.
--glen
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>So I don't see in the Torah where we are permitted to eat honey. I
>always thought that there was a reference. Do you know if it is
>specifically permitted?
>
>--glen
From the Talmud:
Shabbat 78a: Is honey used more as a medication or as a food? It is used
for both equally.
Shabbat 140a: You may not prepare medicines on Shabbat. May you make a
mixture using honey on Shabbat. No, it is too medicinal in character.
Yoma 83b Someone is seized with a pathological hunger fit on Kippur.
He may be given honey which should help him.
Baba Kama 85a Honey is harmful to a wound. (In reality it is equally
harmful to healthy and diseased tissue, but is likely to cure a wound.)
Bekhorot 6b We would not have been offered a land of milk and honey
and not been given permission to eat it.
Bekhorot 7b Honey is a permissible food.
In the codes, bee pieces do not trayf things up because they are
either like the bones of a permissible animal or like ashes, which
are not trayf.
Richard J. Israel
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Bill:
One thing that Dick and I often did was share jokes via the Internet.
One day, I sent him a joke, and he replied with an article.
--glen
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I was working on an article that someone was pestering me for. I needed an
opening and then this arrived.
r
>did the joke spark a Drash?
>
>;-)
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>Bible Jokes
>
>Richard J. Israel
>
>God: "Whew! I just created a 24-hour period of alternating light and
>darkness on Earth."
>
>Angel: "What are you going to do now?"
>
>God: "Call it a day."
>
>Is there the slightest suspicion in your mind that some version of this
>story can actually be found in the Bible text? Of course not. It is clear
>to anyone who has had the slightest contact with the Bible that an
>anthology of Biblical jokes belongs in that well known list of the world's
>shortest books. There is a wry comment or two, a few sarcastic digs, but
>nothing even remotely like a laugh-aloud joke anywhere in the Bible.
>
>So when people make Bible jokes it is clear that they are not on the
>Bible's own ground. In fact, part of the humor of any Bible joke is its
>unlikly interpolation of something funny into this ever so earnest book.
>What is funny about God saying that he would "Call it a day" is our certain
>knowledge that God does not speak in English idioms.
>
>There were Biblical puns current in kids' magazines in the 30s and 40s that
>were based on Bible English - Q: Who was the shortest man in the Bible? -
>A:Knee High Miah (Nehemiah) which relies on the English pronounciation of
>the prophet's name. One pun supported the then fashionable tobacco habit -
>Q: Where is cigarette smoking authorized in the Bible? A: When Rebecca lit
>from her C/camel. Another of these fifty year old puns needed a little help
>from the bank failures of the Great Depression. Q: What was the first
>financial transaction in the Bible? A: When Pharaoh's daughter took a
>little profit/prophet out of the rushes on the bank. Among these terrible
>jokes it is only the last one which I am prepared to defend as having a
>little class. Triple puns are not common.
>
>These days Biblical jokes cannot dip into as broad a selection of Biblical
>literature as these puns. They rely on a very limited number of Biblical
>themes: The Creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden, Noah's ark, Moses on the
>Mountain, Moses and the people at the splitting of the sea and an
>occasional tower of Babel. These are the staples of New Yorker cartoons and
>internet jokes. I am inclined to believe that they are picked not because
>they have so much potential for humor but rather, because they are the only
>Biblical stories with which contemporary English speakers are sufficiently
>familiar that they are able to serve as a platform for a jokes. A joke
>doesn't work unless the teller and listener or reader share the same
>cultural baggage.
>
>I wrote a book called The Kosher Pig. Reuven Kimmelman, friend and rabbinic
>scholar proposed a title for a sequel. He suggested Heh-hazir BiTshuvah. I
>think it is brilliant. If you know any any Hebrew I feel sure you will
>agree. Heh-hazir means "The Pig." BiTshuvah could be made to mean a
>repentant pig, the sorry pig, the return of the pig, or could be a sly pun
>on the people referred to in Hebrew as Hozer BiTshuvah - those who have
>re/turned to Orthodoxy. If the Hebrew is easy for you, you are surprised
>and delighted by all the delicious resonances. If you don't know Hebrew, it
>falls absolutely flat. It is about as funny as those Yiddish jokes you
>could never understand and whose explanation left you even more puzzled
>than you were before they were explained.
>
>The Bible comes as second nature to a writer like Thomas Hardy. He
>describes an old woman with a greasy "black bonnet that seemed to have been
>worn in the country of the Psalmist where the clouds drop fattness." He
>writes about someone walking in the fog at dusk with street lights
>producing an ill defined light and says that he "is like one of the forms
>in Nebuchadnezzar's furnace." And here, I probably have to explain:
>Nebuchadnezzar throws three men into an overheated furnace but, though
>expecting them to be burned to a crisp, he is able to see them through the
>fire, walking about unhurt. With a brief Biblical quotation Hardy is able
>to convey mystery, an unwanted vision and a person with an ability to
>endure. In Hardy's own time, he didn't need to explain. In the late
>nineteenth century he could pick from anywhere in the Bible, not just from
>a few select stories, and assume his readers could take care of themselves.
>We have neither the readers nor writers who can do that in English and so
>we are limited to Adam and Eve and friends.
>
>One day, after a near eternity in the Garden of Eden, Adam calls out to
>God, "Lord, I have a problem. I know you created me and have provided for
>me and surrounded me with this beautiful garden and all of these wonderful
>animals, but I'm just not happy"
>
>"Why is that, Adam?", comes the reply from the heavens.
>
>"Lord, I know you created this place for me, with all this lovely food and
>all of the beautiful animals, but I am lonely."
>
>"Well Adam, in that case I have the perfect solution. I shall create a
>'woman' for you."
>
>"What's a 'woman', Lord?"
>
>"This 'woman' will be the most intelligent, sensitive, caring, and
>beautiful creature I have ever created. She will be so intelligent that
>she can figure out what you want before you want it. She will be so
>sensitive and caring that she will know your every mood and how to make you
>happy. Her beauty will rival that of the heavens and earth. She will
>unquestioningly care for your every need and desire. She will be the
>perfect companion for you.", replies the heavenly voice. She will be a joy
>for you, but this is going to cost you, Adam."
>
>"How much will this 'woman' cost me Lord?", Adam replies.
>
>"She'll cost you an arm and a leg, an eye, an ear, and maybe a few other
>body parts."
>
>Adam ponders this for some time, with a look of deep thought and concern on
>his face. Finally Adam says to God, "What can I get for a rib?"
>
>The rest, as they say, is history.
>
>This one is more hostile -
>
>And God said to Adam, "I am going to give you a partner, one who
>will please you greatly." and God gave Eve to Adam. Adam was very
>pleased indeed.
>
>"God," said Adam, "she is very beautful. I am sure that she will be a
>wonderful partner for me and I am certain that I will come to love
>her greatly, but God, one small detail -- why did you make her so
>stupid?"
>
>And God answered, "I knew that you would love HER, but I
>also wanted her to love YOU.
>
>Moses comes down from the mountain. The people ask "So what does He want us
>to do?"
>
>Moses says, "Well, at first He had a list of six hundred and thirteen
>demands. We bargained a lot, and I got Him down to ten. We negotiated some
>more about the ten, but I couldn't get him to budge on the one about
>adultery."
>
>All three of these stories are discussions of the tensions between the
>sexes. That is why the last story doesn't work if you substitute any other
>commandment. All three launch that discussion by using our shared Biblical
>background. With a deeper knowledge of the Bible we could get a much richer
>collection of stories.
>
>
>
>
>Richard J. Israel