by danya | Oct 18, 2006 | Blog
Evidently a monument preservation org is staging a poll for the “new 7 wonders of the world.” They’ve narrowed it down to 21, and you can vote online for your favorite list. All I have to say is, the Sydney Opera House??? I don’t think so. Not...
by danya | Oct 15, 2006 | Blog
It’s raining! It’s raining in Jerusalem! Big solid buckets of rain! We only started praying for it yesterday, and here you go. Thanks, God!! I don’t personally do so well with the rainy season (and I’m not alone–a Finnish woman recently...
by danya | Oct 14, 2006 | Blog
Tefillin, regular liturgy, and something vaguely reflecting a routine. The holidays have been great–really, it’s been a fantastic ’round this year, and I’m sorry to see them go. Simchat Torah was wonderful, lots of dancing and great tefillah...
by danya | Oct 11, 2006 | Blog
…I think the most fun part of the hag so far was teaching a three year-old how to shake a lulav. She insisted on doing it a few times, and I think probably could have kept going if dinner hadn’t been called. Thank goodness we were on the mirpesset...
by danya | Oct 10, 2006 | Blog
Those who don’t know me very well tend to be surprised to find out what an introvert I really am. I do fine in big groups of new people, I am chatty and usually pretty friendly and have (erm) dominated probably more than one dinner party in my life. (Or maybe...
by danya | Oct 8, 2006 | Blog
probably, if I lived here long enough, the idea of sitting in a sukkah with a cafe hifuch and my computer plugged in and connected to wifi would start to seem normal and not amuse and please me so much. I have not lived here long enough for that yet to happen. A sweet...
by danya | Oct 5, 2006 | Blog
I just found out that a friend and classmate just died. She had been sick for a long time, in and out of the hospital for more major surgeries than one could imagine that a body could handle in a few short years. She suffered a lot, bravely. Abby was a great soul. She...
by danya | Oct 5, 2006 | Blog
I just got back from getting my arba minim, aka lulav and etrog. The whole trip went a lot more smoothly than the last time I tried to do this in Israel–I bought the stuff off some scruffy dati (religious) kid in jeans on the sidewalk not far from my...
by danya | Oct 4, 2006 | Blog
It’s autumn. I am wearing socks, hanging clothes to dry doesn’t seem to totally do it anymore (luckily there’s a dryer here, though it takes like four hours to dry a load if you start with the clothes straight from the washer–so I hang dry for...
by danya | Oct 3, 2006 | Blog
Hey, everybody, how were your Atonement Days? Mine was great. Where I went, the morning service lasted–and I kid you not about this–ten hours. For Shacharit, Torah service, and Musaf. Niggunim with unlimited attention span. My own attention span is a...
