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[cellio]

This probably isn't of interest to anyone else; it's just a reminder for myself, because it's taken me a few years to figure this out.

The following worked well for pre-Yom-Kippur meals:

Lunch: large meal, protein -- big piece of fish, veggies, bread, some rice (Mallorca).

Dinner: normal-sized meal, protein -- spinach quiche, herring, carrots, soy milk.

Gradually reduced the caffeine over the week; Friday I had tea with lunch and one can of Diet Coke mid-afternoon. Headache started around 5pm Yom Kippur; don't know if it was caffeine, eyestrain (lighting sub-optimal in parts of synagogue), or something else.

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[cellio]

Hmm. I wonder which that first class was too -- if I had interpreted one of the titles as that I would have gone. :-)

Rabbi Freedman gave a short class at S'lichot on the Rambam material. You probably got farther than we did because you had more time.

I went to the class on youth issues, which I thought was going to be about how congregations can work with kids better, but ended up being about what "kids these days" are bothered by in the world at large. Kind of interesting but not a lot of Jewish content.

Rabbi Gibson's class was neat, and I'll eventually write this up in a top-level entry. As sort of an exercise in Jewish cultural anthropology, he had a collection of "Dear Abby"-style letters from the Jewish press over the last century. It made for some interesting discussion on assimilation, intermarriage, kids becoming more religious than their parents, etc. Some issues are forever. :-)

[geekosaur]

Hm. If you have the classroom list, IIRC it was room 205.