122.01/ Week one-hundred and twenty two, November 12-18, 2022, thread begins here.
Week 121 below.
Hey, Twitter is still here. Nice to know.
123.02/ All right, I hear TFG may come back. So I succumbed and jointed the Tooting Place in the first silo at random.
@JoshuaCypess@mstdn.party
Worth having a backup.
Once you're done, you'll probably want to find some people to follow.
Good news! Several of the people you follow here are probably there already. A good tool to auto-follow your friends over there that you already follow here is this
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/…
123.08/ My son, working in Israel this year, came with these gifts, demonstrating how well he's absorbed the lessons & instruction of my parenting. Getting kosher soda is hard, especially in goofy #Fanta flavors
123.09/ Went to the Israel Museum today & saw some amazing things, possibly the most mind-blowing was this king's seal of Hezekiah himself! It gives me chills. The Bible validated as history by archeology!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezekiah
123.10/ We also saw some funny Avoda-Zara statues. Many Roman gods, but also stuff from 4000+ years ago. Including this cartoonish lady.
123.11/ Chodesh Tov from "The Eye of the Universe!" One small thing I treasure about being here is the birkat cohanim in every morning davening. It's a palpable sign of the advanced holiness.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2770218…
123.12/ There's also a fun halachic shuffle where we don't say "Ten tal u'matar" in America yet, but *do* say in Israel, yet when I return to America I stop saying it for a week or so and then start up again.
https://outorah.org/p/22451/
123.13/ Able to daven Rosh Chodesh mincha at the kotel at virtually the earliest time possible. It's a bracha to be able to do so, but still tinged with sadness at the Churban (can't help it!)
123.14/ It's heavy rain in Jerusalem (a bracha) and heavy traffic (not so much) and we just passed through the walls of the Old City (the ramparts) through the Sha'ar ha-Ashpah (the ram parts).
123.15/ Making Shabbas lunch and going for one of my favorite Israeli food customs: challah with a trillion "salads" (pictured below). Alas, I didn't fully trust this caterer's Yerushalmi kugel (with pickle, of course).
123.16/ My daughter asked why do people think that it's a good thing to leave notes in the Western Wall (something I'm pretty much against). I explained that it must come from the concept of "leave-note Yerushalayim" as seen below
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livnot_U%27Lehibanot…
123.17/ Candle lighting in Jerusalem is 36 minutes before sunset, so that's very soon. Please stay safe everyone and #ShabbatShalom@Thread Reader App please unroll