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theyellowhobbitSo I'm in Van Pelt, working on my class discussion for tomorrow. I'm supposed to talk about Mordechai Kaplan and Yeshiyahu Leibowitz and their ideas on halacha. the problem is, as I'm reading Kaplan, I find all these other things I want to talk about. But I can't. Time is limited as is. I suppose I can write down all the interesting things and then copy and paste into a new word document what I'm actually using.
Professor Fishman also gave me some extra sources that the class doesn't have. One is an article by Rachel Adler, everyone's favorite Reform Feminist thinker. So I can quote anything, and say "Rachel Adler says..." and it would be true. Because Rachel Adler does say it. It's just a matter of which Rachel Adler said it...
I promise I won't abuse this in my presentation [and Ruderman paper for that matter]...too much.
So a few things:
I had 2 Shabbat meals, a "small" one [13 people] and a large one [22 people]. For once, everyone was there before we made kiddush, which usually doesn't happen with big lunches. We were about to start, and Adam showed up. Then we were about to start again, and Esther and Ilana Barach got to the apartment. Then we actually ate.
I also was able to serve leftovers from the first meal at the second one. Everyone ate well, I think. Comment if you didn't get enough food. [And I don't mean "I didn't get 20 slices of deli-roll...," rather, I mean if you were still hungry when you left.]
Also, to do a quick [yeah right] update from the past week and a half:
The Shabbat of Thanksgiving was quite fun. I was at the Felder's house. Mrs. Felder and Sophie usually do Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv at home on Friday nights, and they sing Yedid Nefesh, Mizmor l'David and Lecha Dodi. This time, though, Mrs. Felder said in the middler "If you know any tunes for the other songs, sing them. We're bad at starting them." So I did. We had did the first 3 psalms, but then I started the "mizmor shiru l'hashem, shir chadash, ki niflot asah, hosiah lo yimino u'zroa kodsho..." and they knew it, though I picked a key that was too high for all of us [Oh yeah, I don't have an upper register anymore...]
Not too many people noticed the nose-ring, which was my main concern, or if they did, they didn't say anything. The Raskin girls [Miriam, Yehudis Shifra, and Esther Basya] noticed it, but they only said something when I asked, and they said that it looks like a birthmark unless you look closely. On Saturday morning after davening Mr. Felder noticed it when he was talking to me, and made fun of me a little bit. [Like the usual "what happens when you sneeze?" question.] Oh well, it was my decision to get the nose-ring, and that's one of the consequences...[Maybe I should be saying "nose stud" instead of "nose ring" because it's not a ring]
It was too cold out to do the usual Shabbat walk. There was snow on the ground.
And Mrs. Felder is looking into ways for Sophie and Jacob to go to Israel (that for Jacob isn't a co-ed trip, and for both of them, will be under 3000$). I'm not sure what Jacob can do, maybe he can learn somewhere. I suggested that Sophie could come on the archaeological dig with me. It might be a bit expensive, but apparently it's almost 1000$ less if you're not getting credit. Sophie thought we were crazy when we asked her, but thinks the idea is interesting.
On Sunday I went shopping with Mom and Grandma and got a lot of new sweaters, since my old ones are getting too big. Grandma noticed the nose-stud, and I told her "you didn't notice it the last time you saw me, so it can't be that noticeable" which was true, since she didn't notice it on Thanksgiving.
We then had lunch with Grandpa, who is very sick. The whole weekend, my parents and Grandma were discussing what we would do when he dies. This kind of conversation according to Rabbi Seif, is generally not supposed to take place before someone dies. I think the practice is one of those superstitions "evil eye" things as opposed to halacha, but still, it's kind of morbid. We know that he only has "2 months" but time frames are always an estimate.
Then I went home on Monday morning, and was only 5 minutes late for anthropology. Professor Urban did the Macarena on stage!!!!!!
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday were a horrible blur of me being unreasonably miserable because everything went wrong at the same time. It had to do with slicing my finger on a razor in the shower, not having a cell-phone charger, medical insurance hating me, me being forgetful and bike-less, falling twice in a period of 30 minutes on the same leg and being honked at by an angry driver, and probably PMS, though I don't know if that actually was the cause, seeing as that I don't feel miserable now, and I still should have PMS if it was that. [anyone who can see my friends-only entries would know this all anways...]
By Thursday night I regained my sanity, and on Friday I cooked for my 2 meals. I made 2 soups and 4 pounds of schnitzel.
Ari Gilder led shal-shuddis singing since Joseph was away. He did a great job [though he forgot how the song I requested started, so I had to sing it for him, which is hard to do when another song is going on. We rarely do the song, which is why he forgot it.] I wonder who Joseph chose to be shal-shuddis guy for next semester. It's time slike this when I wish I was male. I think I would be a pretty darn good shal-shuddis guy. I know all the songs, and I have a good memory for what we sing each week, and which songs have been neglected, so I would try very hard to make sure we had some variety. And I love to sing. I guess the alternative is I wish the rule of kol isha didn't exist, or that people weren't so darn machmir.
Ground Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yours" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 quirky habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.
1. I'm OCD about making sure the toilet is flushed. Even if I just did it, I have to check at least once after I've washed my hands to make sure that I really flushed it. I think it's because my brain doesn't remember commonplace actions that I do all the time. Or I'm crazy.
2. When I eat tri-color pasta, I always eat the green first, the orange second, and the white third.
3. I go crazy when I'm in a situation and I have nothing to read or knit. I start reading signs in the subway, toothpaste bottles in the bathroom...anything, something to scan my eyes on.
4. I usually can only write a paper the night before it's due [or sometimes if I'm good, a day before that so I can get it proofread.] This got me into trouble last year, when I didn't have the emotional ability to write a paper the night that I needed to. Fortunately, the Jewish Studies department is good about giving extensions [even when you don't ask until after the deadline that you missed]. This is also why I'm writing this entry right now instead of doing my presentation research.
5. I always have a song in my head, no matter what. If something is being sung/played, the song in my head will be that song, but otherwise it can be pretty darn random.
ok. I tag
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cynara_linnaea
levana_b
lopaanre
miou_vicioso
jtersesk
tobeginagain
That's 6 people, and not 5. Yes, I can count. :-p
Ok. Back to work.
Professor Fishman also gave me some extra sources that the class doesn't have. One is an article by Rachel Adler, everyone's favorite Reform Feminist thinker. So I can quote anything, and say "Rachel Adler says..." and it would be true. Because Rachel Adler does say it. It's just a matter of which Rachel Adler said it...
I promise I won't abuse this in my presentation [and Ruderman paper for that matter]...too much.
So a few things:
I had 2 Shabbat meals, a "small" one [13 people] and a large one [22 people]. For once, everyone was there before we made kiddush, which usually doesn't happen with big lunches. We were about to start, and Adam showed up. Then we were about to start again, and Esther and Ilana Barach got to the apartment. Then we actually ate.
I also was able to serve leftovers from the first meal at the second one. Everyone ate well, I think. Comment if you didn't get enough food. [And I don't mean "I didn't get 20 slices of deli-roll...," rather, I mean if you were still hungry when you left.]
Also, to do a quick [yeah right] update from the past week and a half:
The Shabbat of Thanksgiving was quite fun. I was at the Felder's house. Mrs. Felder and Sophie usually do Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma'ariv at home on Friday nights, and they sing Yedid Nefesh, Mizmor l'David and Lecha Dodi. This time, though, Mrs. Felder said in the middler "If you know any tunes for the other songs, sing them. We're bad at starting them." So I did. We had did the first 3 psalms, but then I started the "mizmor shiru l'hashem, shir chadash, ki niflot asah, hosiah lo yimino u'zroa kodsho..." and they knew it, though I picked a key that was too high for all of us [Oh yeah, I don't have an upper register anymore...]
Not too many people noticed the nose-ring, which was my main concern, or if they did, they didn't say anything. The Raskin girls [Miriam, Yehudis Shifra, and Esther Basya] noticed it, but they only said something when I asked, and they said that it looks like a birthmark unless you look closely. On Saturday morning after davening Mr. Felder noticed it when he was talking to me, and made fun of me a little bit. [Like the usual "what happens when you sneeze?" question.] Oh well, it was my decision to get the nose-ring, and that's one of the consequences...[Maybe I should be saying "nose stud" instead of "nose ring" because it's not a ring]
It was too cold out to do the usual Shabbat walk. There was snow on the ground.
And Mrs. Felder is looking into ways for Sophie and Jacob to go to Israel (that for Jacob isn't a co-ed trip, and for both of them, will be under 3000$). I'm not sure what Jacob can do, maybe he can learn somewhere. I suggested that Sophie could come on the archaeological dig with me. It might be a bit expensive, but apparently it's almost 1000$ less if you're not getting credit. Sophie thought we were crazy when we asked her, but thinks the idea is interesting.
On Sunday I went shopping with Mom and Grandma and got a lot of new sweaters, since my old ones are getting too big. Grandma noticed the nose-stud, and I told her "you didn't notice it the last time you saw me, so it can't be that noticeable" which was true, since she didn't notice it on Thanksgiving.
We then had lunch with Grandpa, who is very sick. The whole weekend, my parents and Grandma were discussing what we would do when he dies. This kind of conversation according to Rabbi Seif, is generally not supposed to take place before someone dies. I think the practice is one of those superstitions "evil eye" things as opposed to halacha, but still, it's kind of morbid. We know that he only has "2 months" but time frames are always an estimate.
Then I went home on Monday morning, and was only 5 minutes late for anthropology. Professor Urban did the Macarena on stage!!!!!!
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday were a horrible blur of me being unreasonably miserable because everything went wrong at the same time. It had to do with slicing my finger on a razor in the shower, not having a cell-phone charger, medical insurance hating me, me being forgetful and bike-less, falling twice in a period of 30 minutes on the same leg and being honked at by an angry driver, and probably PMS, though I don't know if that actually was the cause, seeing as that I don't feel miserable now, and I still should have PMS if it was that. [anyone who can see my friends-only entries would know this all anways...]
By Thursday night I regained my sanity, and on Friday I cooked for my 2 meals. I made 2 soups and 4 pounds of schnitzel.
Ari Gilder led shal-shuddis singing since Joseph was away. He did a great job [though he forgot how the song I requested started, so I had to sing it for him, which is hard to do when another song is going on. We rarely do the song, which is why he forgot it.] I wonder who Joseph chose to be shal-shuddis guy for next semester. It's time slike this when I wish I was male. I think I would be a pretty darn good shal-shuddis guy. I know all the songs, and I have a good memory for what we sing each week, and which songs have been neglected, so I would try very hard to make sure we had some variety. And I love to sing. I guess the alternative is I wish the rule of kol isha didn't exist, or that people weren't so darn machmir.
Ground Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yours" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 quirky habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.
1. I'm OCD about making sure the toilet is flushed. Even if I just did it, I have to check at least once after I've washed my hands to make sure that I really flushed it. I think it's because my brain doesn't remember commonplace actions that I do all the time. Or I'm crazy.
2. When I eat tri-color pasta, I always eat the green first, the orange second, and the white third.
3. I go crazy when I'm in a situation and I have nothing to read or knit. I start reading signs in the subway, toothpaste bottles in the bathroom...anything, something to scan my eyes on.
4. I usually can only write a paper the night before it's due [or sometimes if I'm good, a day before that so I can get it proofread.] This got me into trouble last year, when I didn't have the emotional ability to write a paper the night that I needed to. Fortunately, the Jewish Studies department is good about giving extensions [even when you don't ask until after the deadline that you missed]. This is also why I'm writing this entry right now instead of doing my presentation research.
5. I always have a song in my head, no matter what. If something is being sung/played, the song in my head will be that song, but otherwise it can be pretty darn random.
ok. I tag
cynara_linnaealevana_blopaanremiou_viciosojtersesktobeginagainThat's 6 people, and not 5. Yes, I can count. :-p
Ok. Back to work.
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Date: 2005-12-05 07:15 am (UTC)I'm glad you did it. You must have sensed via cyber psychic wave that I was very close to tagging you. : )
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Date: 2005-12-05 01:22 pm (UTC)1. I also need to read. Especially in the bathroom. But I don't bring in reading material, but you can bet that the shampoo bottle's ingrediants have been memorized.
2. Biting my sleeves.
3. Checking my cellphone to be sure it's on silent even though I've already checked a few times in the day.
4. Sure, I trust the kashrut of Pardes. Okay, kinda. (I mean, the dishes we use, not the actual kitchen) but I never use the communal sponges for my own dishes. I either wash them with my hands and soap, or I take my dirty tupperware home to be washed. Yet I use the communal dishes for Pardes meals anyway.
5. I can't fall asleep on a bus unless I scooch down and have my knees on the seat in front of me, and yet I can't stay awake in that position.