Cards and Letters

If not already, then shortly, every one who

(1) lives in MA and made a contribution towards consecration, this trip and the rabbi's discretionary fund; and/or

(2) made a square for my beautiful quilt; and/or

(3) is from the congregation and had a birthday/anniversary in July; and/or

(4) was enrolled in 1st through 7th grade last year in our Religious School

should receive a notecard or postcard from Israel.

If I've forgotten anyone or something got lost in the mail, I do apologize.

The clerk at the post office on the U of Haifa campus chuckled each day as I brought in another stack of notecards/postcards to mail. As I slid notecards/postcards one-by-one into the post box, one of the young students was duly impressed that I was sending so many back to the States.

The post box itself has a slot that accommodates just one notecard/postcard at a time. An obvious security measure. It certainly does take longer than the traditional American "dump a bunch into the mailbox at one time" approach. You have to be sure everything's sealed and the stamps are affixed or they might come off as the notecard/postcard slides into the post box.

If you received a card that opened rather than being flat - I'm sure you've figured out by now that it doesn't "open the wrong way" - it opens "the Hebrew way."!!

If you think reading right to left is fun - then consider calendars where the week goes from right to left. That's quite another orientation to handle. But "they" do "drive on the right side of the road!!" At least that's one thing in our favor. Either the British weren't there long enough to have an impact in this regard or they weren't there at the crucial time when the automobile took over the roads.

May all your "wrong ways" really be "right ways."

Cheers, Rabbi Heath