“You’re going to love this one,” I announced to Nuke. “Jephthat’s half-brothers cast him out for being the son of a hooker, then later they try to get al opportunistic on him and he’s like ‘screw you, I know what you think of my mom’.” (11:7)
I mean, fine, so eventually they wear him down and win him over. The point was, we had an outsider (and perhaps a half-breed?) who was necessary to the survival of the Jewish people, and sometimes we need stories like that.*
And there’s a guy called bar-Zipper in the haftorah (11:29), which is either fitting or ironic when we started out with hookers.
Nuke considered this descriptions for a moment, then walked over to the liquor cart. “We should use rose water–hookers are always heavily perfumed. At least the cheap ones.”
That was a nice start, but we knew we needed alcohol this week–after all, “There came upon Jephthat a spirit.” (11:26) We decided to use 2, to be on the safe side.
Recipe: Son of a Whore: Shake together 1 T pisco, 1T, floral gin,1/2 t rose water. Pour into a shot glass and shoot
*y’all, I’m trying really hard to be funny, but between events on the South Side of Chicago and in the Knesset, some of us are truly feeling in no-mans land right now.
Tippling Through The Torah 