My Rosh HaShanah was really nice! Friday night, Natalie, Carra, and I went to Yedidya, a modern orthodox shul very close to us, and then to some Pardes friends’ for dinner--lots of yummy food and singing. Saturday morning Natalie and I went to Kedem, which is an egal minyan mostly run by Pardes and Conservative Yeshiva students--almost completely made up of American students in Jerusalem. It was nice and full of ruach (spirit/energy). Ran into one of my former campers who's on Nativ, and a young woman who'd been at the Conservative Yesahiva with me 5 summers ago who just made Aliyah.
We had a whole bunch of people over for Saturday lunch. We’d started by inviting around 8 or so people to a semi-potluck (we’d cook main courses, they’d bring side dishes). Somehow, somebody’s roommate wanted to come, and someone else’s friend from out of town, and a couple people who had nowhere else to go…and suddenly we were looking at a possible 18 people, including the 3 of us, instead of 11. We set up three tables end to end in the living room, and had to borrow a few chairs from one of the neighbors, and it ended up being great. Only 14 people in the end, not 18. Everything went well—except for the moment where we discovered that we had no bottle opener to open the nice bottle of wine one of our guests had brought, and had to make Kiddush on sherry we happened to have in the fridge instead! Lots of fun; people ended up singing and hanging out until after 5pm.
Last night we went to another friend's apt, which was also very nice and very yummy. Today I went to David Breakstone’s (an old friend of my dad’s) synagogue in Talpiot Mizrach, and had lunch with his family. It was nice--though the acoustics in shul weren't great and I was sitting where it was much easier to hear the kids running around in the lobby than the Shaliach Tzibur. Oh well. Lunch was nice, though everything was in Hebrew, so I couldn't always follow the conversations. David showed the two little kids (his son-in-law's niece and nephew) his shofar, thinking that they wouldn't be able to blow it and that would be the end of that. But they could blow it--so they ran around all afternoon blowing the shofar constantly... SO much yummy food, I'm still stuffed at 8:30pm (don't think I'll want dinner tonight!)
Oh, and it RAINED—apparently its very unusual for it to rain so early in the fall. Nobody could believe it. A little bit of rain during the afternoon of the first day, during lunch, and then more rain in the morning and the afternoon of the second day. Everyone is saying that it’s a good omen for this new year.
Last night we went to another friend's apt, which was also very nice and very yummy. Today I went to David Breakstone’s (an old friend of my dad’s) synagogue in Talpiot Mizrach, and had lunch with his family. It was nice--though the acoustics in shul weren't great and I was sitting where it was much easier to hear the kids running around in the lobby than the Shaliach Tzibur. Oh well. Lunch was nice, though everything was in Hebrew, so I couldn't always follow the conversations. David showed the two little kids (his son-in-law's niece and nephew) his shofar, thinking that they wouldn't be able to blow it and that would be the end of that. But they could blow it--so they ran around all afternoon blowing the shofar constantly... SO much yummy food, I'm still stuffed at 8:30pm (don't think I'll want dinner tonight!)
Oh, and it RAINED—apparently its very unusual for it to rain so early in the fall. Nobody could believe it. A little bit of rain during the afternoon of the first day, during lunch, and then more rain in the morning and the afternoon of the second day. Everyone is saying that it’s a good omen for this new year.
(R"H preparations, and all set up!)
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