out wit the flat bread, in with the beer
so sat and sun were passover, highly optimal, nice lil break, but i now realize how much work im really slammed down with, and moreover the fact that its almost two and minyans at 8 in the morn. i like screwing myself over.
food ranged from subpar to excellent. the first hillel shepards pie was a disappointment only compensated by tirtsa's potato kugel (a simple dish no less). of course, now further inspired to live next to the quinns and assorted jam rabeim. learning was shvack (weak) although i picked a gesmacke sefer (great book) from rabbi dave. if ur not miriam, just skip to the next paragraph. aryeh kaplan's "reaching out", published by ncsy no less. its fantastic, he brings in every support for kiruv conceivably contained within the gamut of torah/rabbinic literature, and approaches to kiruv offered by the sifrei kodesh. and then hes an even bigger baller for quoting large blocks of text from any work he feels is relevant to the chapter at hand. i loooove master lion.
game playage was great, i worked the risk table and i did so in a dramatic and vinidictive fashion. me and zach finished as co-winners, but he knew i coulda swept him that turn. oh, tres funny, for sunday the village shul moved into the hillel bc the christians were using the university religious conference, obviously. so it was nice, we had a big kehilla. the guy behind me until i moved was one of these mock-ashkenazi chazons, u know, distastefully loud, booming sonorous type of voice. tres annoying. anyway, shachris chazan was our own chaim, leining by moishe, haftarah by one of their guys, yizkor by chaim, musaf by moishe, and a brief dvar by a guy who officially belongs to their kehilla but davens by us every day. plus it was in our building at out pleasure. after this, their gabbai or whatnot gets up to say a couple thank yous and nice words, then comments on how nice the hillel boys were and thanked us for joinging their minyan. *blank stare.....wait....left eyebrow crawls up brow...yeah its there, eyebrow arches* whatever
i have become the victim of hillel politics. a position i wanted to continue for the sake of the express purpose of the position was snatched by me for the express purpose of using the title to come to board meetings with some degree of authority and scream at people. some ppl are just asking to get hit by lightning.
wouldnt it be cool if i could hit ppl with lightning?
apartment hunt starts manana, must straighten out roomies tho. i hate being the middle guy. followed by showdown btwn denis preger and david meyers. miriam ur missing a doosey. or however its spelled.
now i realize as hard as i try, ya'll prob dont understand 3% of the jewish references scattered above. thus i will go through something jewish that i find amusing with full explanations.
at the end of a holy day (ie sabbath or festivals) u perform a ceremony called havdallah (lit. differentiation) to mark the passing from a holy day back to a secular day. generally, this involves a cup of wine as part of the ritual, as do a good many jewish rituals. the gr"a, aka the vilna gaon, a european rabinical giant, had an interesting opinion on the procedure for havdallah after passover. he said, since we are marking the difference between passover and the regular days of the year, we should perform havdallah not over wine, but rather over liquid chametz (leavened food prohibited on passover), ie beer. so we even beat the frats out, cuz none of them are ridiculous enough to have a party sunday night =]
night kids
food ranged from subpar to excellent. the first hillel shepards pie was a disappointment only compensated by tirtsa's potato kugel (a simple dish no less). of course, now further inspired to live next to the quinns and assorted jam rabeim. learning was shvack (weak) although i picked a gesmacke sefer (great book) from rabbi dave. if ur not miriam, just skip to the next paragraph. aryeh kaplan's "reaching out", published by ncsy no less. its fantastic, he brings in every support for kiruv conceivably contained within the gamut of torah/rabbinic literature, and approaches to kiruv offered by the sifrei kodesh. and then hes an even bigger baller for quoting large blocks of text from any work he feels is relevant to the chapter at hand. i loooove master lion.
game playage was great, i worked the risk table and i did so in a dramatic and vinidictive fashion. me and zach finished as co-winners, but he knew i coulda swept him that turn. oh, tres funny, for sunday the village shul moved into the hillel bc the christians were using the university religious conference, obviously. so it was nice, we had a big kehilla. the guy behind me until i moved was one of these mock-ashkenazi chazons, u know, distastefully loud, booming sonorous type of voice. tres annoying. anyway, shachris chazan was our own chaim, leining by moishe, haftarah by one of their guys, yizkor by chaim, musaf by moishe, and a brief dvar by a guy who officially belongs to their kehilla but davens by us every day. plus it was in our building at out pleasure. after this, their gabbai or whatnot gets up to say a couple thank yous and nice words, then comments on how nice the hillel boys were and thanked us for joinging their minyan. *blank stare.....wait....left eyebrow crawls up brow...yeah its there, eyebrow arches* whatever
i have become the victim of hillel politics. a position i wanted to continue for the sake of the express purpose of the position was snatched by me for the express purpose of using the title to come to board meetings with some degree of authority and scream at people. some ppl are just asking to get hit by lightning.
wouldnt it be cool if i could hit ppl with lightning?
apartment hunt starts manana, must straighten out roomies tho. i hate being the middle guy. followed by showdown btwn denis preger and david meyers. miriam ur missing a doosey. or however its spelled.
now i realize as hard as i try, ya'll prob dont understand 3% of the jewish references scattered above. thus i will go through something jewish that i find amusing with full explanations.
at the end of a holy day (ie sabbath or festivals) u perform a ceremony called havdallah (lit. differentiation) to mark the passing from a holy day back to a secular day. generally, this involves a cup of wine as part of the ritual, as do a good many jewish rituals. the gr"a, aka the vilna gaon, a european rabinical giant, had an interesting opinion on the procedure for havdallah after passover. he said, since we are marking the difference between passover and the regular days of the year, we should perform havdallah not over wine, but rather over liquid chametz (leavened food prohibited on passover), ie beer. so we even beat the frats out, cuz none of them are ridiculous enough to have a party sunday night =]
night kids