\fR oo m-hāk\ n. Any application of ingenuity for those who are committed to observe the 613 Mitzvot. [ORIGIN: Yiddish פֿרום (frum|fR oo m) meaning "commited to observe the 613 Mitzvot, or Jewish commandments" and the English Slang term HACK (hāk|hak) or LIFEHACK (līf-hāk|lahyf-hak) meaning "anything that solves an everyday problem in a clever/non-obvious way or an appropriate application of ingenuity"]

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I figured, ‘Hey this looks like a good way to get more readers and spread Frumhacking to people outside my immediate circle of readers!’ so I signed up and added at “Give Kavod” badge to the Frumhacks homepage. I also toyed with adding the badge to my individual posts (both in my blogger post template and directly into the source code of the page layout template) but there were a few problems: First, because the way the badge is structured (WARNING: TECH SPEAK: a javascript that renders a webpage and loads that page to my page via the iframe tag) it caused my page to load slightly slower and (although I trust JTA implicitly) theoretically any image or content could be loaded onto my page without me knowing (basically an iframe tag is an inline frame, which means that a hole is cut into the current page and another page is loaded in that hole, kind of like a browser within the browser, see below for an example).

Second, because of the way that the javascript was written the link would only grab the current page address, not article addresses (when viewing my homepage frumhacks.blogspot.com you can see 7 recent posts, so if you tried to add any of them to Kavod via the badge it would just add “frumhacks.blogspot.com” instead of the specific article. Third and finally, the badge wouldn’t work with my RSS feed and my Feedburner optimization.

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k you see below each my posts that allow you to share this post on de.licio.us, Digg, Facebook and more, these FeedFlare units can be added to my RSS feed via Feedburner and are simple links so they do not slow down the page, also the way the variables are setup in the XML allow for my article links to get grabbed properly and added to the Kavod list.