It's been a good five months since I updated this blog. Even I started to wonder if it would be a hiatus or an abandonment. I played piano for יום הזיכרון Yom Hazikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) and then, about 10 days later at the tail-end of April, found myself in the ER with דלק ראיות pneumonia and asthma, which kept me in bed for 7 or 8 weeks. I think that, after the holidays, I will probably leave lj and go in a different direction.
Now, it's already the 8th of Elul ~ so, Rosh Hashana is three weeks away (sundown on Wednesday, 8 September).
ח׳ באלול תש״ע


Scrambling to bake off my אוזני המן hamantaschen before sundown, I still wanted to check in here. My friend in NY who's snowed in for Shabbat, Sarit sent me a new recipe to try. I was feeling so up in the air about life, housing, work, prospects for the future. On Monday, I decided to go to a class at the kollel on the Maharal of Prague's ספר גבורות השם No golem, but plenty of good conversation. On Tuesday, my friend and nextdoor neighbor in Tel Aviv, Niko, met me at Powell's. I've really missed his friendship. I just got in from a long walk in the rain with the dogs. I'd love to climb into bed with a good book, but what I need to do is seek out a little community. So, I'm off to services.
שבת שלום וחג פורים שמח
Shabbat Shalom and Happy Purim!

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