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Torah this morning
Dec. 20th, 2006 10:28 amThis morning I read for Temple Emmanu-el. I still have that Channukah leining memorized from my leining-contest dream. I knew it would be useful someday!
I avoided the whole kippah incident of last time (where Dad came up as I was about to read Torah and put a kippah on my head, even though I purposefully didn't wear one because I don't wear kippot) by covering my head with a bandana.
I don't like the fact that after people go up and do things, they go around to everyone to get a yasher koach from them. It holds up the davening (since they wait) and I feel like if someone wants to give you a yasher koach, they'll come up to you.
I don't sit with my Dad or Grandma when I'm there, and Grandma doesn't like that. But I sit alone when I daven!
And of course, afterwards she was crying and said "Grandpa would have been proud of you." (Grandpa would have been the one to cry were he still alive and davening, since he would cry at the mention of anything Jewish.) I don't get it. Leining is not a big deal, especially if it's an easy section that I have memorized. It's probably the only leining I can do without messign up, besides the simchat torah readings. (Again, because I did it so often I have it memorized.)
Now I'm doing various things for the JWST thesis and grad school. Ben is sending me the letter of recommendation after Christmas, and he said I should ask Dr. Schuyler for one. Though I'm not sure what to say in my e-mail to Dr. Schuyler... Anyone want to help me?
I avoided the whole kippah incident of last time (where Dad came up as I was about to read Torah and put a kippah on my head, even though I purposefully didn't wear one because I don't wear kippot) by covering my head with a bandana.
I don't like the fact that after people go up and do things, they go around to everyone to get a yasher koach from them. It holds up the davening (since they wait) and I feel like if someone wants to give you a yasher koach, they'll come up to you.
I don't sit with my Dad or Grandma when I'm there, and Grandma doesn't like that. But I sit alone when I daven!
And of course, afterwards she was crying and said "Grandpa would have been proud of you." (Grandpa would have been the one to cry were he still alive and davening, since he would cry at the mention of anything Jewish.) I don't get it. Leining is not a big deal, especially if it's an easy section that I have memorized. It's probably the only leining I can do without messign up, besides the simchat torah readings. (Again, because I did it so often I have it memorized.)
Now I'm doing various things for the JWST thesis and grad school. Ben is sending me the letter of recommendation after Christmas, and he said I should ask Dr. Schuyler for one. Though I'm not sure what to say in my e-mail to Dr. Schuyler... Anyone want to help me?
