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Nov 6th (See this week's devar torah)
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Hi again!
The rain which started last Friday, continued off and on until Tuesday -- a very good start to the rainy season here. Let's hope and pray it continues! Right now it's warm, and it's supposed to be "warmer than average" this shabbat. That's good, since we'll have four (additional) girls staying with us, and having the weather be cold and wet would likely discourage them from leaving the house.
As you know already, we belong to a group called Anywhere in Israel, which places kids who are studying in yeshivas or seminaries with families for those shabbatot where they be outside of the school. This week we got an email asking for placement for this shabbat, and as usual we said "sure, come on". Later that evening, I got a phone call from the coordinator of the program, who said that the girls who sent that request were from Chabad, and maybe it wouldn't be a good fit. Of course, we already knew they were Chabad since they said so on the request. Anyway, I told the coordinator that we didn't mind at all, that we were "friends of Chabad". She was happy and surprised, and said she would get back to us shortly. In a few minutes she called again, and said that, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, could we take four girls instead of two? We again answered in the affirmative, and she said she would call back in a few minutes. Then she called back and said that, really, there were five girls -- so I interrupted her and asked if this was related to this week's parashah, but she continued and said that she put three of the girls in another place, so we would only have two of the Chabad girls... but would it be possible for us to take in two other girls? Of course the answer was "certainly". So that is how it came about that we have four guests this week. It should be lively...
- more about Ada'le
- Silly-ass (Jewish) anti-semite says Jews are really Khazars. Again. Never mind the abundance of genetic evidence to the contrary.
Until next week,
Shabbat shalom!
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