Shabbat short takes
Sep. 7th, 2003 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioThe morning minyan switched to the new format this week. It worked well; we just hit the start of the torah service when the rabbi had to leave, and the member who volunteered for this week did a good job with it. We need to do some tweaking of physical setup (in particular, making a fast transition between study and service), but we knew we were going to have some bumps along the way there.
Minor logistical thing: we used to have snacks during torah study; now that we've flipped things, we declared that snacks would be after the service. But the rabbi didn't get any, because he left. (I was actually walking around the back of the room with a pile of cookies for him, but he ducked out before I got there.) The later service doesn't end until something like 12:45, which is a long time for him to go without food. We need to fix this.
Friday night was a larger-than-normal crowd. There were some people I wanted to talk to but didn't get to. On the positive side, I spoke to several newcomers and helped make them feel welcome, which is important.
I've received several compliments on the committee meeting I ran on Wednesday. Apparently I give good meeting. :-) Actually, I'm just organized and perfectly willing to step into a conversation that's drifting and bring it back to the agenda. I didn't think this was all that unusual, but in thinking about other meetings I've been to, maybe it's not as common as I had thought.
The flowers my rabbi sent were a beautiful addition to the Shabbat table. Some of the blooms opened up today, and others will probably open up tomorrow. They're very pretty.
Friday's mail brought a birthday present from Dani's mother, a goregous silver havdalah set. I inaguarated it tonight. (I had previously been using a hodge-podge of tools on hand; I didn't have a set.) (Havdalah is the ceremony marking the end of Shabbat. It involves wine, a candle, and a spice-box.)
Today I worked on my upcoming torah portion (in a few weeks). It's short, and after resolving one ambiguity that required consultation with someone actually fluent in Hebrew (today's torah reader, in fact), I now have the portion from the right-hand side of the book (with vowels and trope). I should be able to move to the left-hand side within a week. Plenty of time, as it turned out. (I've been conservative in my estimates of learning speed.)
Minor logistical thing: we used to have snacks during torah study; now that we've flipped things, we declared that snacks would be after the service. But the rabbi didn't get any, because he left. (I was actually walking around the back of the room with a pile of cookies for him, but he ducked out before I got there.) The later service doesn't end until something like 12:45, which is a long time for him to go without food. We need to fix this.
Friday night was a larger-than-normal crowd. There were some people I wanted to talk to but didn't get to. On the positive side, I spoke to several newcomers and helped make them feel welcome, which is important.
I've received several compliments on the committee meeting I ran on Wednesday. Apparently I give good meeting. :-) Actually, I'm just organized and perfectly willing to step into a conversation that's drifting and bring it back to the agenda. I didn't think this was all that unusual, but in thinking about other meetings I've been to, maybe it's not as common as I had thought.
The flowers my rabbi sent were a beautiful addition to the Shabbat table. Some of the blooms opened up today, and others will probably open up tomorrow. They're very pretty.
Friday's mail brought a birthday present from Dani's mother, a goregous silver havdalah set. I inaguarated it tonight. (I had previously been using a hodge-podge of tools on hand; I didn't have a set.) (Havdalah is the ceremony marking the end of Shabbat. It involves wine, a candle, and a spice-box.)
Today I worked on my upcoming torah portion (in a few weeks). It's short, and after resolving one ambiguity that required consultation with someone actually fluent in Hebrew (today's torah reader, in fact), I now have the portion from the right-hand side of the book (with vowels and trope). I should be able to move to the left-hand side within a week. Plenty of time, as it turned out. (I've been conservative in my estimates of learning speed.)
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Date: 2003-09-11 02:59 pm (UTC)People who are subject to drug-testing should be cautious about eating those cookies--ordinary culinary amounts of poppy seeds can cause a positive result for opiates.
http://www.snopes.com/toxins/poppy.htm
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Date: 2003-09-11 07:57 pm (UTC)Yes, I've heard of the poppyseed-cookie phenomenon on drug tests. Fortunately, I am currently free to eat poppyseeds to my heart's content. Not that I've ever actually cooked with them before, but I enjoy eating them so it's about time to learn. :-)