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January 4th (See this week's devar torah)
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A while ago we spent a shabbat in Haifa, at my friend's home. One of his customs which I liked very much, and have adopted, is to greet everyone with a "shabbat shalom!". Old, young, religious or not - everyone gets greeted in a pleasant manner. It's interesting to see how people react. Most people just say, "shabbat shalom". Some say it with a smile. And then there are those who seem to be offended that someone would offer such a greeting. Interesting experiment...
Speaking of shabbat: as we were in the middle of our dinner, Daniela looked at the window behind me and excaimed, "Cool! A gecko!". Of course, everyone turned to look - and indeed, there was a gecko on the outside of the window. Esther is revolted by any such creatures, so she was not happy about the gecko being next to us. But when I took a closer look, I discovered it was a dead gecko - which made things even better. So at least I got to talk about the "eight species" of crawling things which the Torah labels as causing ritual impurity... (though I'm not certain the gecko is one of the eight).
Being protected is being prepared. That's printed on the front a pamphlet we received this week from "pikud ha`oref" פיקוד העורף. Literally translated, it means "the nape command". Esther couldn't figure out what that had to do with the contents of the pamphlet, which was all sorts of information on emergency preparedness. Turns out "pikud ha`oref" means something like "Department of Homeland Security". Live and learn...
If it weren't for 'people' trying every artifice to kill us, that pamphlet could be much smaller. And now that the American empire is starting to fold, we'll have to rely on ourselves even more than before. At least the almighty dollar is no longer so mighty... it's currently trading at a nine-year low against the shekel.
- Switched to GMail
- Bad news about water
- Reasonable attempt at Pad Thai
- Daniela to Eilat for 3 days. Hotel without towels.
- Sarah math 88, (62-80)
- Sarah in a play
Shabbat shalom!
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