Ki Teitze (translation)

I chanted torah yesterday; the passage was short and didn't have too much difficult vocabulary, so I translated from the scroll instead of reading from the book. (My rabbi was there; I can't remember if I've done that in front of him before. I think so.)

My translation of the sixth aliya of Ki Teitze (Deut 24:5-13):

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Ki Teitze: d'var torah

This is (approximately) the d'var torah I gave on yesterday's portion:

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games day

We had some people over for gaming yesterday. (Alas, there was something I wanted to go to at my synagogue in the evening, but I didn't know the schedule until after we had committed to hosting.) Four other people played Descent, and I played a four-player game of Iron Dragon and two three-player games of Puerto Rico. After all that, some folks played Estimated Time to Invasion, which was new to either everyone or everyone but Dani. (He brought it home from Origins.)

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