Shabbat and Channukah update

[theyellowhobbit]

Shabbat was fun. On Friday night we had a girl's singing meal, and I actually got to teach boroparkpyro's Yaq Ribon tune. So it has now made it to Penn, but only to the Penn women, and most of them don't sing in front of guys...but hopefully people will remember it and sing it on their own.

There was also a girl's tisch, and even after that and talking to A.A. in the lobby of North for a while, I still got back early. Thus, I got to read and go to sleep at a reasonable hour.

I mashed for the davening shift, except that at 11 CJC was in the middle of the haftarah, so thus I got to daven mussaf there. They did the hechi-kedusha, where you say the first 3 blessings out loud together, and then everyone does their own silent amidah. They also did this at shacharit as well. I'm more of a fan of full chazarah, so whenever I lead, I do the full chazarah.

Then we had my lunch, which was fun and had a lot of singing and socialization. And deli-roll. You can't forget the deli-roll.

Though it ate up my afternoon, so I only read in my room for a half hour before setting up seudah shlisheet.

I led mincha. I did a full repetition. Which meant that I had to say the uber-long al ha nisim. I hadn't comprehended this until last night, so I was thinking of it in mincha nusach when I said it for the previous davenings and meals. I managed to do it okay and not stumble on the words too much. It's not like they are particularly hard words, but I don't know the text that well.

Then there was seudah shlisheet, and I gave bentsching to B.R., because this was his last shabbat as "shalshuddis guy." He did a good job as shalshuddis guy.

And now I'm trying to frantically finish a kippah before I leave on Tuesday, since it needs to be given to levana_b so she can give it to Shlomo when she goes to Israel. I'm 4 rows from starting the Hebrew letters, which will be 8 rows big, except the qoof (ק), which is slightly bigger (and the yuds(י) don't go down all the way) and then another row afterwards. It'll be really nice and amusing and I'll take a picture when I'm done, so you can see what it says.

Now I have the Channukah Olympics tonight! Whee!

Comments

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

Ah, but which version of my Yaq Ribon tune did you teach them? ;-)
On Friday Night i ate by torahumaddachic and suddenly, her and chakira were like 'hey let's sing your Yaq Ribon' and actually started singing it by themselves!! :-D It made me too happy/embarrassed to sing along properly, i wasn't able to hit the low notes for some reason :-P .

[noam-rion.livejournal.com]

If I brought crocheting supplies to the Kallah, could you show me how to make a kippah?

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

They probably were singing in a key that was out of your range. (And that's when you'd go up the octave.)

I taught yours! I feel like it's only fair to teach the song in the original. Though I did tell them that there are 2 versions of it.

And I even did the thing where I went straight through all the verses w/o repeating the "yaq ribon" part (even though I think it should be done using the whole verse as the chorus. That's how alanscottevil taught me.)

Aren't you proud of me?

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

Of course! (And if you forget supplies, I could always loan you some of mine to practice on over kallah.)