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Hi, again!
The "Big Fast" (yom hakippurim) helped make the week move fast, er, quickly -- since we only had three work-days this week. Two days of respite, then shabbat; another day of respite and then sukkot! This is definitely a busy time of year on the Jewish calendar!
Daniela is on the mend, and went back to work, B"H! She and Jeremy will be heading to Baltimore to spend the first days of sukkot with his family. Unfortunately, they don't have any place to put a sukkah back at their apartment in Manhattan -- so I don't know how they're going to work things out.
Sarah has been getting herself ready for the upcoming start of school. Besides taking care of administrative things, she also made sure to catch up on the shows she follows -- just to get up-to-date, you know?
Esther and I have been working hard to finish whatever work we had outstanding before shabbat, since neither of us is going to be returning to work until after the yamim tovim. Besides work stuff, we also had to get our sukkah straightened out.
Here's the problem: our sukkah is twice as big as the space we have available. That's not really a problem, since we can use half the frame and then it fits fine; but the walls of the sukkah are made of a continuous piece of waterproof fabric. Since the walls are twice as long as the half-size sukkah, we had taken to wrapping the excess around itself and not-so-artfully hiding that in the back. It worked well enough, but the walls being impermeable to water means that in the Mediterranean climate in which we find ourselves, the interior of the sukkah was always too hot for comfort.
So this year, we decided to get replacement walls -- separate cloth panels which can simply be tied to the frame we have. Since the brand of sukkah we have is an Israeli one, finding panels the right size was not too difficult. What we didn't know, was that unlike the "old" walls which had loops of Velcro to hold them to the frame, the new panels have sewn sleeves into which the frame needs to be inserted. This makes the act of assembly much more difficult -- although it looks like the end result is more stable. Anyway, we've got the frame assembled (thank you, Sarah!), and on Sunday we'll finish with the sekhakh (roofing) and decoration. Then we'll take a picture for you for the next installment of the blog.
Ah, since you asked, here you go:
- Pseudo-science marketed as medicine. Actually, using the word 'science' anywhere in there is a disservice to science.
- The One is a true genius!
- Apparently, many of his supporters are just as clever
- Most American Jews are lost, it seems
- Unfortunately, some Israelis are in the same league. As Einstein famously said, "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Other Israelis are simply revolting
- And some got stranded on the way to the UN
- But most Israelis are getting in the holiday mood
- Even the fast-food places!
We are really excited to have a week and a half off from work, a time to relax and enjoy family and friends (and food! don't forget the food!). No, I didn't forget the food...
Due to popular demand (from Sarah), we are having a quiet family-only shabbat this week, since we'll have guest through the holiday. So I'll also include our menu for the first day of sukkot for you to enjoy: orange-chicken soup, chicken empanadas, corn-mushroom empanadas, eggplant-zucchini salad, chickpea salad, vegetable-minestrone soup, tuna salad, fruit, lamb roulade, Esther's traditional stuffed veggies, noodles, salatim, ʿaraq, chocolate-chip bar cookies, and honey-cake
Until next week,
shabbat shalom and ḥag sameaḥ!
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