Bitul Torah and its Negative Effects on Human Continuity

I herby announce the first victory for the Feed a Hungry Yeshiva Guy at Burgers Bar Foundation (FHYGBBF), well uh put it this way my rather pyrrhic victory is other wise known as Avian Flu H5N1 which recently flew into Israel. As a refresher I previously lamented my yeshivas dinner-time fowl feeding habits and discussed how I desired the death of the local fowl population in a form that would successfully remove them from the neighborhood supermarket shelves and subsequently my highly unbalanced diet (see http://thepunksofzion.blogspot.com/2005/12/death-to-birds.html). Essentially I beat the tabloids at their own game. Think about this for a minute, you heard this story from the punks of zion first, months before this got out of the National Enquirers "wild, crazy and almost possible scenarios" room. Punks, we just beat those tabloidists with their pants down and their martian tails between their legs. Of course whereas killing off the bird population in this cruel and unusual fashion was certainly not envisioned in this manner, and the threat to life and falafal in Israel and other less holy places was certainly not desired, I feel so freaking powerful. HA! Well not really, but kind of.

At this point the only thing I can do is pray to The Divine Fellow (to those confused Im not refering to dina) to un-curse the Israeli bird population by putting the Bird Flu genie back in the bottle. Or perhaps I could just deny ever having anything to do with the whole thing and just blame this mess on our beloved neighbors (excluding the pretty mermaid country to the west of us).

Aside from learning that a) pulsa denuras ( some kind of kabbalistic death curse that i really dont know anything about) do in fact have a relatively high success rate, b) Be very careful what you wish for and c) Bitul Torah can get you into all sorts of trouble.

By the way, I was just wondering, when the Men-In-Black and Shin Bet show up at my door to escort me to some undisclosed administrative detention cell in the relative neighborhood of Pluto, could one of you kindly explain this whole mess to my parents.