I’ve adapted this idea from an earlier meme called “Eight things about me.” (A meme is a cross between a chain letter and a themed blog post.) I changed the number to seven, in honor of the seven days of Sukkot (Tabernacles festival).
Here are some posts I’ve been planning for after the holidays:
For the posts I planned to write, and the series I didn’t finish.
For not updating the blogroll regularly.
For comments and emails ignored, and worthy causes unpromoted.
For failing to visit and comment on others’ blogs.
For failing to publicize Jblog carnivals regularly.
For failing to link to other bloggers who helped me.
For all these, blogworld, forgive me.
And to all my readers, if I have offended or insulted you in any way in my posts, comments, or comments on other blogs, please forgive me.
Thank you for being a part of my world during the past year.
Gmar chatimah tovah–may God forgive all of us for our sins of the past year and seal us in the Book of Life.
Mother in Israel
Me: When are you going to get your teudat zehut (ID card)?
Teenager: I’m not sixteen yet, thanks to you.
Our rabbi made an amazing statement this past Shabbat: Pregnant women and nursing mothers whose babies are solely dependent on their mothers’ milk (including babies who take a small amount of solids, generally until 8 or 9 months) must not fast on Yom Kippur. Nursing mothers (and presumably pregnant women; I didn’t hear that part of the speech), , should eat and drink in shiurim starting Yom Kippur morning, and not wait until they have symptoms or see signs of distress in the baby. He said that he based his opinion on a ruling by the Hazon Ish.
Read more on A Radical Ruling: Breastfeeding and Fasting on Yom Kippur…
Which of the following situations is disturbing, distracting, or inappropriate in shul?
When I received an email from a distressed mother, criticized for nursing in shul, I assumed she lived in the US. Israelis tend to respect nursing mothers. But when I asked for permission to post, the mother said I should call her “Nursing in the Negev.”
Read more on Nursing in the Negev, or Nursing in the toilet?…
Those of us in Israel aren’t used to a three-day Yom Tov (two days of Rosh Hashanah followed by Shabbat). Wherever you are, here are some tips to keep you sane if you are panicking about now.
Please welcome my 13yo daughter’s first ever guest post. She took the pictures too.
My little brother’s tooth finally fell out today. I made him a box to put it in, which was supposed to be an envelope, except I forgot how to make them. I still remember some of my teeth that fell out. I was told, as all children, that if I put the tooth under my pillow, I would get a present from the Tooth Fairy. It worked the first time. The second time, however, something went wrong. I wouldn’t go to bed without an envelope for my tooth, insisting the Tooth Fairy wouldn’t come if the tooth had no envelope. In the end, my mother convinced me it didn’t care and I went to sleep very worried. In the morning it turned out I was right: the tooth was still there, and there was no present! I wasn’t very happy.
A couple of years later, I tested my parents. I lost a tooth and hid it under my pillow, without telling anyone. I had outgrown the envelope by then. The Tooth Fairy didn’t come. After a week, I told my parents. My mother told me that there was no Tooth Fairy, but my father insisted that it still existed. The next morning, of course, the Tooth Fairy came. But it was too late. I didn’t believe in them anymore.
Now you know who are the cynical ones in the family.
I just spent ten minutes explaining to my son that we are not interested in a children’s magazine despite all the stories, puzzles and games it contains. He was shown a copy in class, and brought home an envelope.
Direct marketing to first graders is assur (prohibited) in my book. I don’t care how good the magazine is (at only NIS 395/year). What chutzpah to distract my child from school with this kind of stuff.
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