'Beneath You'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil, do you eat apples with honey on Rosh Hashana, as a sign for a sweet year? It's yummy, even if it doesn't sign anything.
Yep. Very yummy.
This year, my mom found these weird apples that have pinkish streaks going all through the inside, so they looked really pretty sliced.
Kat! Miss you! And still have no idea how on earth you do mornings. I got up early (for me) and now can barely look at my monitor without my head screaming. Ah well.
The signs advertising sukkahs are back! As are the sukkahs. The one I find the most amusing is the blue tarp one behind a bagel bakery in a strip mall. There are some rather elegant ones I see around the neighborhood. And then there are the blue tarp ones.
There are some rather elegant ones I see around the neighborhood. And then there are the blue tarp ones.
My neighbors have a nice one. I hope the weather holds for them--it's always nice to hear them laughing and talking into the evening when the weather is nice. It's the week of my birthday this year.
Hi Nilly! L'Shanah Tova! Thank you for the lovely e-card!
I can't tell you how I enjoy the mental image of Sukkot all over the place, spread over the most unexpected (for me) places. I mean, I love seeing them all around here (walking around in Jerusalem during that holiday is wonderful, for example), but the always-existing (for me) surprise of hearing about them all the way across the ocean is even better.
[Edit: thanks, Teppy!]
Baltimore has a huge jewish community (I think I read somewhere it is the second largest in the US, but I might be making that up) and I live right on the edge of it.
Down south, we used to joke about there being a baptist church on every corner. Driving down Park Heights here, there pretty much is a synagogue on every corner. Sometimes two. And then there is Hannukah house....
there pretty much is a temple on every corner. Sometimes two.
Did you get lots of noise from the shofar being blown on Sunday morning?
Where my parents live, for some reason, there's a concentration of synagogues. During this time of year, it's like a chorus of shofars (goodness, it's strange to plural this word in English) every morning.
And then there is Hannukah house....
I guess that this is something that can be seen only in the USA, a real merge of cultures. There's nothing like this here.
Lee, thanks for the update. I'll have to go soon (a possible new-roommate is coming to check out the apartment), and I know exactly how I'll feel. A friend gave birth a few years ago - she went in to the hospital on Friday, and by the time shabbat was supposed to start, I knew that she's giving birth *right now* but couldn't call and find out, because of shabbat, so I had to wait until the evening of the following day in order to really know what's going on. This is what I believe will happen tonight, with the Zahecubaby. However, that birth ended up with a beautiful, healthy, lovely girl, so I think I'm willing to make that sacrifice (I can't believe how I keep making all this about meMeME).
Hang in there JZ!
Did you get lots of noise from the shofar being blown on Sunday morning?
I'm a few city blocks over and sleep like the dead, so I've not heard it. But now you have me curious!