Yom Kippur and other things

( Thoughts during Yom Kippur )

In any case, I still have until Hoshana Rabba to be forgiven.

It led to a good D'var Torah which I gave on Friday night, about the purpose of sukkot, and then the purpose of sukkot and simchat Torah in relation to Yom Kippur, and perhaps why I didn't feel the relief I wanted after Yom Kippur.

( brief d'var )

Channukah

My mom Imed me last night, and said that I should start thinking about what I want for channukah [meanwhile channukah is at the end of december this year, so over 2 months away]

My parents usually give me a present somewhere in the range of 100-200$ though sometimes it's more [like the digital camera, which is still broken and i really want it fixed].

I'm not sure what I want. Possible things are:

Cuisinart- potato kugelness! yay! no more schlepping to 403!
Ipod- for great gymming. not that it's necessary, but it would make the gym more fun.
100-200$ worth of yarn
money to keep for spendingness in the future
clothing, though there's nowhere around here to shop. I need to get to get to israel!!!
A DVD set of some show. Maybe a short anime series. Maybe Dr. Quinn. Maybe the first season of The Amazing Race. [Though Avidan has that...] I dunno. Something fun.
Judaica stuff- could be books, specificallly a nice set of machzorim. though usually to this, my parents say that i can just have it and it doesn't have to be my channukah present. but i think a set of machzorim would be kinda expensive. plus i want to see what that artscroll women's siddur is all about. Ariela? can I see yours sometime?

http://bargainjudaica.com/product.asp?numPageStartPosition=1&P_ID=3274&strPageHistory=cat&strKeywords=&strSearchCriteria=&PT_ID=133
that was 87.99 for the set. there were ones on the site that were listed as 170.00 and were "on sale" for 130.00 why would anyone spend that much money for leather covers?!?!

http://bargainjudaica.com/product.asp?numPageStartPosition=1&P_ID=5997&strPageHistory=cat&strKeywords=&strSearchCriteria=&PT_ID=254
The women's siddur is 23.99. so together it would be 111.00, which would be fine. maybe i could do without the woman's siddur.

And what other judaica do I need? I could use a set of mishnayot with kehati in hebrew. or hebrew/english, though that could get really expensive.

Or maybe 100$ worth of deli meat. everyone would love that.

I can't make a poll, so you all should just post and tell me what you think.

I haven't done this in a while...

So here are some weird dreams I've had over the past few weeks. Enjoy!

( dream the first )

( dream the second )

( dream the third )

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( Jewish meme )