I… have been a busy fella as of late… not only updating the content here (of which there are several new articles and a new interview on the Derate the hate podcast here, but also in life. I am doing everything I can to fight to regain mobility, if not in my back, in my…
Tag: Synagogue
Happy high-holy days! – Yom Kippur
G’mar Chatima Tovah! It’s the eve of Yom Kippur, we’re getting ready for Kol Nidre service tonight, followed by services all morning into the evening, when because we’ve fasted 25 hours, we break the fast with a feast. This is our first Yom Kippur, and has been amazing; the healing, the love, and forgiveness, the…
Down, but not out!
So, atop my back having issues due to my Ankylosing Spondylitis getting worse, my knees, whose cartilage is worn from decades of hard style martial arts kicks, are also bad enough to keep me fairly immobile. Luckily, I am upstairs in our house and can make it to the bathroom, our bedroom, and my office….
Illness and the high-holy days
L’Shannah Tovah! Rosh Hashannah has come and while we’d initially planned on attending our synagogues services in-person, 4 out of our 6 person family are currently sick. We’d instead opted to watch our service online and to go through the holiday at home, so we didn’t get any of our fellow congregants sick. This was…
High-holy days and other awesomeness
My wife and kids are back from North Carolina where they went to visit my in-laws, and it was a super happy reunion. My kids all missed me so much and I don’t remember a time where I and my wife hugged longer or tighter. It was truly a moving experience for us all in…
Preparing for a month alone
The kids nor my wife have seen her parents in almost 2 years now, so we all planned that they would go from Philly to North Carolina for a month in August. I’ll be staying home with the cats and keeping an eye on the house, so we will be a part for 30 whole…
Missing our first Shabbat service ever!!!
So due to FedEx screwing up delivery of my wife’s new Cochlear implant piece, it’s out for delivery today, which means we have to wait for it at home. This will be the very first Shabbat service we’ve missed in six months consecutively. We both feel horrible about missing it, but we’re going to watch…
We went to synagogue!
Yesterday we went to our synagogue Rodeph Shalom for the first time, it was finally opened since the Covid-19 pandemic began. It was also the first time our new cantor sang for us all, so it was doubly a special occasion. We (my wife and I) gathered up our four kids, hopped on two buses,…
Have you seen the articles?
…seriously, have you seen the articles? I have added a ton of new articles from my notes and some that I have to write out as they popped into my noggin. I’ve been a busy guy writing so much up and I hope it helps others converting or thinking of converting to Judaism. I’m trying…
New stuff
So, I added a Modern Jewish music section to this site, let me know if any of you have any more that I should hear and add. I also added several new articles and will be adding some new media soon as well… Always growing, always getting better 🙂