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July 11th (See this week's devar torah)
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Hi again!

I told you last week that Sarah went to the US on a trip to visit her friends. She has been looking forward to her trip for months. The day after she got there, she got sick and had a fever; so she was out of action for a few days. But now she's on the mend, and looking forward to getting together with her friends.

Daniela is looking for a summer job; so if you know someone in the Maaleh Adummim or Jerusalem area who needs a babysitter, or tutoring, please let us know.

Esther went to welcome the first Nefesh B'Nefesh flight of the year. She had to leave M"A at 5 in the morning, but enjoyed welcoming the new olim home. We're looking forward to having shabbat guests and helping the newcomers.

I've been working very long days this week, trying to get things in order. We've had a chaotic week, but hopefully next week will be a bit easier.

The house is coming along. This week we had an inspection from the electric company, which we failed. Or rather, the house failed. Our electrician had not checked the house's grounding, which was one of the first things the electric company checked. So we are having a re-inspection this Sunday -- hopefully, we'll pass this time. We also had an excellent air-conditioning technician come and fix two units which were not working - if you need an air-conditioning guy, let me know.

The previous week I had tried to hang a wall-hanging on the wall. In case you don't know, walls here are concrete or brick -- so you need masonry bits to drill holes in the walls. The masonry bits I had bought from our local hardware store months ago, might as well have been made of butter for all the good they did. So this week we did some shopping at the hardware-store, and got among other things, a good set of masonry bits. The difference is amazing - they actually drill holes in the walls! Now we have a place to hang towels in our bathroom.

I've got to get ready for shabbat, so until next week...

Shabbat shalom!

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 Hi again!
-Last week we were too tired to do anything; we moved on Thursday, and the entire week leading up to the move was very stressful and busy.  However, B"H! we made the move successfully, and spent that shabbat mostly at other people's places.
+I told you last week that Sarah went to the US on a trip to visit her friends.  She has been looking forward to her trip for months.  The day after she got there, she got sick and had a fever; so she was out of action for a few days.  But now she's on the mend, and looking forward to getting together with her friends.
-The house was livable -- that is, the contractors did get everything in place (e.g. toilets, electricity, etc.) in time for our move, but it was a close thing (adding to our stress).  Some things weren't done in time.  For example, our shower enclosure -- apparently there is a specialist whose only job it is, is to install these particular shower enclosures.  Anyway, that got installed this past week.
+Daniela is looking for a summer job; so if you know someone in the Maaleh Adummim or Jerusalem area who needs a babysitter, or tutoring, please let us know.
-If you look at the pictures from two weeks ago you will see what the kitchen looked like [[Media:Kitchen-week-3a.jpg|a week before it was finished]].  Here it is, finished, but [[Media:Kitchen-before move.jpg|before we moved in]], and this is what it looks like [[Media:Kitchen-after-move.jpg|right now]].  They did a right fine job, I think; though there are a few things they didn't do completely right.  All in all, a complete remodel in three weeks is pretty amazing.  If you want to know the names of my contractors, contact me and I'll give them to you.
+Esther went to welcome the [http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/israel/history/2008/a298.htm first Nefesh B'Nefesh flight of the year].  She had to leave M"A at 5 in the morning, but enjoyed welcoming the new olim home.  We're looking forward to having shabbat guests and helping the newcomers.
-We also got the [[Media:Closet.jpg|clothes closets]] installed.  Finally!  We can hang our clothes up again -- it's been almost a year since we've done that.  Our own fault of course, we could have got closets before -- but since we ''knew'' we were going to move "soon", we opted to wait.
+I've been working very long days this week, trying to get things in order.  We've had a chaotic week, but hopefully next week will be a bit easier.
-This is the [[Media:Salon.jpg|dining room]] (in Israel, it's called a "salon").  Taken today, after I spent a couple hours unpacking stuff and figuring out where to put it all.  The bookcase-cum-china-cabinet is only a temporary thing until we figure out what we want to do. A real china cabinet (e.g. with doors that close) is needed here, since otherwise the glassware gets very dusty.
+The house is coming along. This week we had an inspection from the electric company, which we failed.  Or rather, the house failed.  Our electrician had not checked the house's grounding, which was one of the first things the electric company checked.  So we are having a re-inspection this Sunday -- hopefully, we'll pass this time.  We also had an excellent air-conditioning technician come and fix two units which were not working - if you need an air-conditioning guy, let me know.
-After all the contractors were done, this week, I went out and changed the locks on the doors.  The guy at the hardware store told me it was very complex to change these kinds of locks, and they do the installation for an additional 70 shekels per lock.  I declined his kind offer, and though it was indeed more difficult than changing the locks I'm more familiar with, it wasn't too bad - and I saved 140 shekels.  That's real money, friends...
+The previous week I had tried to hang a wall-hanging on the wall.  In case you don't know, walls here are concrete or brick -- so you need masonry bits to drill holes in the walls.  The masonry bits I had bought from our local hardware store months ago, might as well have been made of butter for all the good they did.  So this week we did some shopping at the hardware-store, and got among other things, a good set of masonry bits.  The difference is amazing - they actually drill ''holes'' in the walls!  Now we have a place to hang towels in our bathroom.
-On Sunday we handed over the keys to the rental, and met at that time with the landlords as well as the new tenants.  We feel sorry for the new guys, but there's not much we can do to help them out.  I will say that leaving that house for the last time was one of the most uplifting experiences I've had, recently!
+I've got to get ready for shabbat, so until next week...
-During the week there was a cornerstone-laying ceremony for a synagogue which is being built very close to our house.  We went, and got to hear from lots of dignitaries (the Chief Rabbi of Israel, a Knesset member, our mayor and others).  All in all it was an interesting experience.  I'm curious how long it will be before this shul is operative, however.  I would like something close by.
-Sarah went back to the US for a vacation to see her friends, this past Thursday.  She will be there for three weeks, and has plans to see all her friends.  So her input will be missing for the next few weeks...
 Shabbat shalom!
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