by danya | Sep 12, 2007 | Blog
R. Hillel Chayim Yisraeli, part of my extended Jerusalem chevre, has decided to teach the internet how to blow a shofar. Now you can learn, too. Shana tovah u’metukah! A sweet and wonderful New Year!
by danya | Sep 9, 2007 | Blog
I’m still here, just buried under a gigantic pile of High Holy Day prep stuff. If I’m not going over liturgy or working on divrei Torah (sermons), these days, I’m usually in class or meeting with my rabbinic partner in the High Hoy Day services...
by danya | Sep 5, 2007 | Blog
Well, the first day of school was yesterday. Granted, we didn’t have regular classes–there was a Yom Iyyun (study day on a particular topic), but I also had a class last night, so I feel officially indoctrinated into my last year of rab school. I’ll...
by danya | Sep 3, 2007 | Blog
Being away was lovely. We got up to the Central Coast for a few days of just good, old-fashioned relaxing. Some highlights: The fabulous health food store/cafe that turned out to have the only all-vegetarian menu in the area–after the yummy lunch Thursday, we...
by danya | Aug 30, 2007 | Blog
I have now successfully taken and passed the infamous Daf exam. It actually wasn’t so bad, being quizzed on random sections of 50 dappim and having to hold forth on them. I felt good during the test (it was an oral test, with 3 members of faculty grilling me)...
by danya | Aug 23, 2007 | Blog
Original site.
by danya | Aug 20, 2007 | Blog
Well, new to me, anyway. My friend and teacher Rabbi Alan Abrams is a hospital chaplain who is now in the process of learning how to train other hospital chaplains. Turns out he’s been blogging (nobody ever tells me anything!) for a while. You can read his...
by danya | Aug 10, 2007 | Blog
This week’s joy has been thrown for a loop by a family emergency, now taken its course. I’m sad, grieving and exhausted now, flying back to the West Coast tomorrow with a heavy heart. Not really in the mood to share details just now.
by danya | Aug 6, 2007 | Blog
I am now completely, totally, incontrovertably, excessively, blessedly married. It was a lovely day. Even though was bit overcast and chilly/rainy, so there was only a little bit of bootyshaking (fortunately, it didn’t start being really rainy until we were in...
by danya | Jul 27, 2007 | Blog
I mean, yeah, people who are dying do have a palpable something about them. There’s the thing, and you can feel it. Nobody better than this cat, it seems. What a great cat. I’m glad he goes to give the folks love when they get close to crossing over. Oscar...
