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We had a very good sukkoth holiday: the widened sukka was comfortable. Our guests were able to sleep in it (poor lads!). The food was excellent. All in all, one of our more successful entrances to the holiday. Before yom-ṭov, Esther and I received our new glasses; now I can actually read the fine print!
And then we left the (first day of the) holiday to hear that the profoundly evil head of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, met his maker while we were enjoying the sukka! He wasn’t taken out by some incredibly advanced technical means, nor by informants giving him away. No: he was taken out by a new recruit in the infantry, only 9 months into his service. A fitting end to that trash.
Indeed, zeman simḥateinu”!
Various:
- My son-in-law’s brother-in-law’s fascinating story of leaving Iran and converting to Judaism.
- My friend’s take on the roller-coaster sensation of this particular year’s season.
- Lawyer and activist Elica Le Bon excoriates jihad supporters.
- A thread on the US threat to halt arms shipments to Israel.
- “Dumpster Fire’s” take on the election: “Electile Dysfunction”.
- We all need to make our own cluster incendiaries shot from a trebuchet!
- Techy talk: on the history of electronic data storage.
- Best one-liner of the week: “Was your birth certificate a letter of apology from the Trojan factory?”
Besides our two guests (the son of a friend, and his room-mate in yeshiva), we also had cousins of mine in our sukka. We barbecued, and the quantity of food we produced was a bit excessive to be honest. Still, we did what anyone would: we ate, a lot.
This shabbat we still have the one guest (son-of-friend), and since he’s a growing boy we’ll try to keep him well-fed.
The weather has been reasonably pleasant, slowly growing cooler overall. However, it’s still very hot in the middle of the day; not much we can do about that in the sukka!
This shabbat our meals will contain some or all of:
baked salmon,
schnitzel,
meatballs,
roast chicken,
rice,
various salatim,
and cookies.
Until next time,
shabbat shalom and moʿadim lesimeḥa!
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