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Counting…
I’ve been counting the Omer. Maybe you are, also. I have had mixed success, over the years, at getting through all 49 days. Many years, I have managed to count the first day (which is written into the Seder for the second night of Passover), and that was it. Counted one night, and then failed…
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Tot Shabbat
Our Friday nights and Saturdays follow a rhythm that varies rarely. Most Friday nights we try to be home before sunset (an almost impossible challenge for us in winter, but achievable in the summer months). We have a nice meal together, in our dining room rather than our kitchen table. The meal is structured with…
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A shabbat-free shabbat
I noted on FaceBook today our dear friends who made every effort to get home from their Disney vacation in time for Shabbat. They, of course, planned ahead, and have everything ready to go (apparently), with some help from worthy accomplices. We are never so foresighted in our Shabbat planning. Not at home, and never…
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Kid-centered shabbat
This week has been a little crazy, as I’ve been covering for a colleague, and taking care of an inpatient team at the hospital. Usually, this would be a two-week or a four-week rotation for me, but because I’m just covering until the next attending physician takes over, it’s only 9 days – last sunday…
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Missing Shabbat
It’s Saturday, which means its Shabbat (the Hebrew word meaning “sabbath”), and I’m using a computer. My husband and I started becoming more “Shabbat observant” a few years ago. It had been a slow evolution from originally just lighting candles on Friday night, reciting “Baruch ata HaShem, Elokeinu melech haolam, borei p’ri hagafen” (Blessed are…