I can hardly call this snow. It's more of a rain, with some snowflakes mixed in, which leads me to give it the name, slush. It's slushing out!
Summer is definitely over, as is fall. My front steps are strewn with fallen leaves that everyone (ya, me included) was too lazy to sweep up, then it rained and they turned into wet clumps, and they are still sitting there calling 'help, help!' but no one cares. Someone had the gall to ask me why no one cleaned our steps, and I rolled my eyes. Like, I can use my time for much better things then sweeping up leaves and stuffing them in a garbage back. And anyway, the snow will cover it soon, and then it'll all be good.
Tonight is a night to curl up with a mug of hot chocolate, with little marshmellow floating on top. Or tea, for our British folk. It is a night to stay indoors, read a good book, or watch a good movie.
The times, they are changing! And how. This week is gonna be the first light of Chanukah! It is so exciting, I love this time of year. It always brings to mind a snow globe, filled with white trees, and lots of glitter for fake snow, and a pond, and ice skating, and of course, lots of pretty lights, in all colors. I wanna drive down the street and take it all in.
Tonight is a yom tov. Mention of it here does not do it justice. It needs it's own post. It needs a farbrengin, and learning of a sicha. It needs hachlatos, and perhaps a visit to the ohel, and maybe, if you're lucky, a call to the mashpia.
Tonight is Yud Tes Kislev, the 19th day in the hebrew month of kislev. This day marks the beginning of Chabad Chassidus. It is a victory, and a triumph. I will iy''h post more about it tomorrow.
Gut yom tov! And enjoy the slush!
I'm just glad I managed to get to shul while it was still raining, before it started to slush, as you call it.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I saw your piece when I was reading the Jewish Press last night. Good job and congrats!
:) i saw it too and i was like, hey, i wrote that! they told me they were gonna put it in but they didnt say when, so it was a nice surpise. And thanks :)
ReplyDeleteHaha, that must be a good feeling! And you're welcome. :]
ReplyDeleteThey usually tell me when they plan to publish something I send in. I get the Jewish Press every week anyway though (we have a subscription), so it's all good.
I spent the Shabbos in Brooklyn. It was a nice slush. But then I came back to Boston and found it all white.
ReplyDeletepretty. you live in my birthtown. and i heard the Bostener Rebbe passed away.
ReplyDeleteWhat a nicely written, well-worded post. My respects. In Switzerland there is always someone in charge of sweeping away the leafs and snow, for swiss people think that they way the house looks says something about them... tss. what whack jobs
ReplyDeletehave a cozy week
tank u tank u.
ReplyDeleteand tyes, they do look nicer. i'd love if our leaves would get magically swept up, but alas, the job doesn't do itself.
Yeah. Boruch dayan ho’emes. I didn’t know him, but I heard a lot of good things. It seems a lot of the people I know were born in Boston.
ReplyDeletemy parents knew him.
ReplyDeleteand ya, that's cuz boston's an awesome city to be born in.
It does have good hospitals. But only four kosher restaurants (of which I can eat in one).
ReplyDelete:) Jews measure a place by resteraunts. Classic.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good measure of how successful a Jewish community is.
ReplyDeletelots of people used to live in Boston. Not so many anymore. Beacon street?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know where it is.
ReplyDeleteBoston is a cold place.
no i was asking to see if I remembered correctly. Last time I was there was about 9 years ago.
ReplyDeleteNew york is cold too. As is Toronto. and I'm sure Russia outcolds everything.
Russia is very warm. One of the warmest places there is. So is New York, at least some parts. I've met some people from Toronto too.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't talking about weather.
I'm sure Russia has winter too. And New York is not speared winter. It gets cold here.
ReplyDeleteI cant say I know much about Boston or its people. I lived in Sharon. In hicktowns, everyone is nice. And why would you live there then?
I know what cold is. I've experienced it before.
Work. I would not live here voluntarily. The shluchim are nice though (some). But people are cold...
ReplyDeletei hear you. that is never pleasant. And there's no way around except to make sure you are never like that, and be nice to them despite the kaltkeit.
ReplyDeletesometimes i cant figure out how ppl have the nerve to call themselves religious, or better yet, chabad. It's ahavas yisroel above all, and people just forget. then whats the point?
I said the same thing today to someone. Doing certain mitzvos and davening doesn't make one religious yet.
ReplyDeleteActually, the person who hurt me quite a bit told me once that being frum means keeping Shabbos, kashrus and (when applicable) taharas ha'mishpacha. Figures...
i'm writing a post abt that now, check back soon.
ReplyDeletei hate that aspect of judaism. how ppl feel they can 'judhe' what level someone else is on. how ppl point fingers at others, but do nothing good themself. how they teach their children to be good jews, and then they are simply mean people.
and i say, who needs them.
damn it is hard to be accepting.
Rabbi Paltiel spoke out against machloikes last night. He said: "It's hard to imagine, but they lynched chassidim in this town. Misnagdim literally killed them."
ReplyDeleteSomebody answered: "It's not hard to imagine, because misnagdim did the same thing 60 years ago in Shanghai." To which Rabbi Paltiel answered something like: "Don't bring up machloikes. That's history; this is machloikes. Where does the line lie? It's history when you hear the story and you don't hate them. What, you still hate them? Come on, they are Jews. They made a mistake."
I like that. I respect it. I hear it, I feel it, but still, I am not so pure that i can say, let's be nice to them, no matter what they did to us. if i was a guy, in the times of the misnagdim, i dont know what i would have done in the name of chabad. but of course, chabad is abt ahavas yisroal and loving every jew no matter what.
ReplyDeleteok let bygones be bygones, and let history rest. at least that.
man, judaism is hard.