Jewish Musings Sunday, April 21

[hollygail]

What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.

Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Frieda (hopefully)?
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy

And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!

[hollygail]

I'm still working on the haggadot supplements for Monday night and for next Saturday night. Plus a friend died Thursday afternoon and the funeral is today at 1. I knew she'd been ill, but didn't know how ill. DH will drive us to the funeral. Plus today I have a 9:00 class on Zoom (it meets every two weeks, and I only get to attend when I'm not teaching Sunday School) and I have a 10:30 Zoom call with an old friend from the 80s. And I'm making Sephardic charoset and tsimmes today for tomorrow night's seder (I'll make more of the charoset for next week's seder during the week if I don't today). A full day...

There are a couple of traditions that begin morning services with the quote from Leviticus 19:18, to love your neighbor as yourself. Friday morning, the rabbi-cantor I've mentioned before (he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and their two young kids and comes to San Diego twice a year [High Holy Days and Passover] to the local Conservative shul where I attend weekday services) started with it, and Shabbat morning my own rabbi also started with it (different citations about which tradition, and different melodies from each other's). It was such a joy! (I love my rabbi and don't get to see her often enough.) She hugged me when I told her how much it meant to me to have that as the opening for the second day in a row.

This week's Torah portion is pushed forward to next week because this week is Passover (as if no one here knew). I have a student who will become bar mitzvah the following Shabbat. I'm hoping he'll be ready by then.

I've been reading lots and lots of online offerings to add to one's seder (to supplement the haggadah) taking into account the still-unaccounted for 130+ hostages and in general about October 7 and what has happened since. I'm trying not to get overwhelmed by the amount of really important information I'm reading.

How are your Passover plans coming? Anything else to discuss today? I sincerely hope I'm the only one of us having to go to a funeral today...

[lee058]

Good afternoon everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE! Please pray for Israel.

Re today's topic(s): hollygail , I'm sorry you have to go to a funeral today.

DH and I have been talking about Israel and the war; I plan to talk more with DS this coming week. I want to impress upon DS how important it is to look to the future, while contemplating the past and present.

I had DH buy a sack of potatoes, so we'll be eating our way through that this week. I was able to find whole wheat matzo while shopping with DS the other day; we got the last boxes on the shelf. Other than starches, we'll be eating chicken (of course), gefilte fish, some vegetarian meals, and whatever else DH thinks up.

I miss my sister and my parents. I'll talk about them with DS, too.

Have a peaceful rest of the day, Lee

Edit:  Wait a second, I'm confused again.  When is my week to do the leads??  Somebody tell me, please.