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May 29th (See this week's devar torah)
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As promised last week, here's more about Daniela's year. It was fine. She learned a lot, had bad food at school, didn't get engaged. That's about all I got out of her this past week. If I find out more, I'll let you know. We did find out she is extremely attractive to our local mosquitoes. So far, she's counted fifty-five bites in a few days -- and they've turned into the big-pink-patch kind of bite. So we got her some 'skeeter repellent, but I'm thinking she's just too attractive to the bugs for the repellent to do much good. Truth is, the mosquitoes don't bother us too much -- they seem to be able to distinguish between "locals" and "those who aren't yet locals". Zionist propagandist mosquitoes.
Speaking of 'attractive': the other day I was shopping for food with Esther, standing in line and minding my own business. Then I saw it: a woman wearing baggy pants which were apparently a skirt sewn in the middle so that it resembles a pair of pants. The middle fabric was swaying pendulously between her legs. I don't want to be too graphic -- this is a family blog after all -- but it looked like she had a full diaper-load in her skirt/pants/whatever they were. I'm sure it was intended to look that way, but it was possibly the ugliest fashion I've ever seen. I still have nightmares...
Further 'fashion' foibles: why do Israeli stores have such unfortunate names? The lingerie store Aphrodite (named after a Greek idol); the shoe stores Caligula (named after an insane Roman emperor who detested Jews) and Nimrod (named after the Biblical character who, according to the midrash, persecuted Avraham avinu).
We are anxiously looking forward to the fabulous shavuot meal Esther has labored over. Spinach cannelloni, various salads, home-made ice cream and cheesecake. Tomorrow I'm going to be the grill-master, as we participate in the Israeli tradition of grilling on yamim-tovim. After seven weeks of performing the simple mitsvah of "counting the `omer", we are ready for a celebratory meal or two. We plan on "shul hopping" tonight, as the tradition is for people to study Torah all night -- and there are a plethora of synagogues around, each (hopefully) giving different shiurim.
My work on a Mac OS/X version of my Reva Forth is making progress, but the Mac OS is ... eh, "unique". The fact that almost no-one writes assembly-language for the Mac is slowing the progress on that. My work on making an English translation of the Mishne Torah is proceeding very slowly, but at least it is proceeding. Maybe the yom-tov will re-energize me?
You can help feed the hungry in Israel!
Until next week,
Shabbat shalom!
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