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Tag Archives: shabbat dinner
How To Create Excitement At LimmudLA
There was a giddy excitement to the first LimmudLA that has steadily diminished the past two years. That first year, we couldn’t believe what we had. We were just so happy to be together with Jews of all stripes. There … Continue reading
Posted in Limmud
Tagged fellow jews, giddy excitement, havdalah, kvetching, lonely eyes, shabbat dinner
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Facing Up To Myself
I’ve been on a jihad — inner spiritual struggle — the past few weeks to reconnect on Facebook with friends from my past who are no longer in my life. Last night, I leafed through my 1983 and 1984 Placer … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal
Tagged Facebook, high school yearbooks, placer high school, shabbat dinner, shopping at the supermarket, spiritual struggle
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Why Do Jewish Day Schools Cost Three Times As Much As Roman Catholic Day Schools?
You can send your child to a Roman Catholic day school for $6,000 a year. If you want to send your child to YULA or Shalhevet and you have to pay full price, that will cost you about $20,000 a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Orthodoxy, Personal
Tagged orthodox jew, orthodox jewish life, orthodox judaism, priests and nuns, shabbat dinner, traditional jewish life
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Disturbing Dream
Last night, I dreamt that I befriended Michael Vick. I had him over to Shabbat dinner with some girls and my rabbi. After dinner, I got up on the couch with a couple of girls and mounted them (one at … Continue reading
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Tagged camper van, oy vey, shabbat, shabbat dinner, shul
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My Alexander Journey
I am six weeks away from finishing my first year of Alexander Technique teacher training. It’s a three year program and then I will become a certified teacher and charge $50 an hour for lessons. Alexander Technique has changed my … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander technique teacher, destructive emotions, estate brochures, personal letters, promoting books, shabbat dinner
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Shabbat Dinner
My friend Nechama* puts out the plastic cups. She drops several on the floor. She picks them up and puts them on the table. I seize those cups, take them to the sink, wash them out, and put them back … Continue reading
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Tagged meaningless lives, nechama, orthodox jews, pride event, shabbat dinner, short skirt
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I Was In The Middle Of A Healing Tantric Circle
Obligation after obligation. Cold shower after cold shower. Stretch after stretch, chant after chant. Must rush out of yoga Friday afternoon and park my car far away and hit the bakery and get some challah before Shabbat and then home … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Yoga
Tagged glatt mart, jewish thing, joshua prager, right down the line, shabbat dinner, wall street journal, yogi tea
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‘My Wife Hates You’
I’m friends with a lot of guys whose wives hate me. I’ll be sailing along thinking everything is hunky dory between us and then suddenly I’ll say something and I’ll see her temperature has turned ice cold towards me. And … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy, Personal
Tagged blokes, body language, demeanor, shabbat, shabbat dinner
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I Offered To Bring Cocoa Krispies
I was invited to Shabbat dinner at the home of friends. "What should I bring?" I asked. I got the answer: "Hmmm one of Levi’s classics." "I’ll bring Cocoa Krispies," I replied. I still have three bowls from LimmudLA 2008 … Continue reading
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Special Yoga Class For The Current Astrological Pattern
I’ve always thought astrology a bunch of nonsense. I don’t deny its validity, I just don’t believe. It all seems very strange to me. Guru Singh was teaching a special Friday night class. I was of mixed mind. On the … Continue reading
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Tagged jewish thing, lunar eclipse, saturn uranus, shabbat dinner, soggy mess, solar eclipse, yoga center, yoga class
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