Red Rice

[steepholm]

I learned the other day that it's traditional in Japanese homes, when a girl has her first period, for the family to be served red rice (sekihan). In the explanation I initially heard, this was described as a way of announcing the happy news to the family, where it might be rather indelicate or embarrassing to say it aloud

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[nightspore]

Isaac's only sin, according to the Midrash, was that he had one "nocturnal emission."

[steepholm]

For someone who was almost murdered by his father, he sounds very well adjusted!