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May 2nd (See this week's devar torah)
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Hi again!
It's been a wild and wooly week! First, the seventh of Pesach was on shabbat.. so as soon as shabbat was over, we started putting our Pesach dishes and supplies away in boxes. Since we have more Pesach supplies than year-long ones, that took a while. Then, since we are moving out (God willing!) soon, the landlords have the place advertised for rent... and we've had a pretty constant stream of prospective renters coming by. More on that later.
Tuesday my Mom and Daniela arrived; Mom for her first time ever outside the US, and Daniela coming to finish off her year at Lindenbaum. They had a good flight, and even though it's a very long flight, my Mom looked fresh and in very good shape. However, they each had a cart full of luggage and bags, and I told them my car's an Israeli car -- not an American one. But we were able to get all their stuff inside, and we all got back to our place without problems.
Mom had the idea that Israel is all sand and desert - so she was surprised on the drive from the airport to Jerusalem by how much green there is. In fact, there is no desert between the airport and Jerusalem - it's all either farmland, small towns or forest. Even in our town, the desert is not apparent until you look eastward toward the Jordan valley, where the sere earth looks back at you with dangerous promise.
So far, she has been slow to get used to the Israeli way of doing things. For some reason, she thinks Israelis are rude and can't drive. She's right about the first, but I beg to differ with the second - they are just very impatient drivers.
You probably have heard all about the worldwide rice shortage. It's affecting the price of rice here in Israel and around the globe. But what I really wish we had, was a Rice shortage. We could do with a lot less Rice and her fellows. The idea that the young Fakestinians are "losing hope" and therefore they are "militants" and weakening the moderates, is one of the more ludicrous tenets of America's ludicrous Middle East "policy". At least she's not as bad as Jimmy "Never saw a Jew I liked" Carter, may God take his soul quickly, amen!
- laptop died :(
- Bible quiz
Shabbat shalom!
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