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Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2007-01-11 08:33 pm
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This morning at the end of services the rabbi said he had a message for the congregation, and proceeded to translate from a certain postcard. Err, when I said "say hi to the morning minyan", I sort of assumed the postcard would beat me there. :-) (Two weeks.) He praised my Hebrew, I suspect more than it deserved. (I hadn't taken a dictionary with me.) But I figured it was fair to make him and Dani work a little for their postcards. :-)

Before sending it I took a picture:

handwritten Hebrew message
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[identity profile] baron-steffan.livejournal.com 2007-01-12 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
That's impressive, and probably better than I would have done
even 45 years ago when I was in Hebrew school studying 5 days a week.

[identity profile] dagonell.livejournal.com 2007-01-12 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
The only foreign country where the mail can beat you home is probably Canada. We got your postcard this past Sat. :D Thank you.
-- Dagonell

[identity profile] patsmor.livejournal.com 2007-01-12 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
OH, shoot, that reminds me. I heard a great interview with the first woman to be ordained as a reform rabbi on NPR the other day. She's retiring after, what, 25 years? I've been trying to figure out what show it was on, so I could point you at it. Among other things she talked about her experiences at HUC, the attitudes of her professors, and the fact that she deliberately never married or had children because of the vibes from her congregants that a "real" rabbi couldn't split attention between home and congregation, and that a woman would always have an emotional conflict between home and duty. She didn't believe it, but didn't want to have to fight that, too.

Anyway, I'll work harder to find it unless you heard it.

And your Hebrew is very pretty. ;-)
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