It’s Our Story
Last week’s Torah reading was mostly the story of Noah and the Flood. One of the more curious elements of the tale is what happens when the earth dries out enough for the animals and their human tenders to exit the vessel.
Bee Juice
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Welcome to”chol”
A couple days of magnificent weather have been a welcome respite from the bounty of precipitation during Sukkot and the closing festival days. This morning, we stored away our sukkah — unscathed by the nor’easter — for next year.
Kol Nidre – All Vows
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Time: the sanctified and the quotidian
Other than Shabbat, we begin our holy days with a blessing, a bracha: shehecheyyanu…laz’man ha-ze. We thank Adonai for enabling us to be here now, reminding us to be present in that hallowed period
To close out of sacred time, a ceremony of havdala, “separation.” We bid farewell to Shabbat, to a festival, thanking God for those hours or days and for differentiating between the sanctified and the quotidian.
On Sunday night, we will pass from Pesach to chol, a regular weekday, and we can eat whatever we wish! I hope that we can all appreciate what made these Pesach days fulfilling, even as we look forward to how we will make them even more special next year. (Jerusalem, anyone?)
Shabbat shalom/chag sameiach/shavua tov!