Shabbat is Coming!!

How do I know? Because there's this sense of a rush starting. Will I get things done before shops and banks close at noon or 2 PM on Friday? Do I have something to wear to Shabbat dinner? To synagogue? Out for fun on Saturday evening after Shabbat?

Even though many Israeli's are secular and not involved in organized Jewish life - - well, Israel IS organized Jewish life - and all are involved.

We are so used to being in a minority status and having to explain who we are and what we do and why etc. etc. Ba'aretz - in The Land - in Israel - we're the norm and it's an exciting feeling that you have to learn to pick up on rather than push against when the calendar and clock intrude on your normal patterns of running a week.

If you think reading a page from the siddur from right to left is "interesting" - well, how about a calendar? What if the scroll bar were on the left side of your screen?

There's so much.

Classes are over for the week. Yes, there is shi-urei bayit - home work- plus I have a presentation to write (Hebrew, of course) and then deliver on Sunday - yom rishon - in class. Only 5 to 10 minutes. At this point, I'm writing by hand - no time to figure out local Hebrew word processing options. Lots of students brought laptops, but I'm glad that I'm not keeping up with that level of technology at this point.

And - hmm. If I want to have copies of things made to pass out during my presentation, I have to have that figured out before noon tomorrow, because the copy shop etc. won't be open between Friday mid-day and when my class begins on Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m.

So - things perking along here. Feeling better. Looking forward to new (again) digs at the hotel. The bus is air-conditioned etc. It also will be nice to be outside the University again.

Thanks for your comments. I have read them, just not commented back on them in the regular patern.

Kol B'seder. All is good.

Shabbat shalom, Rabbi Heath