Tfillah Thought

I learned, several years ago, from yemeknight's father, that thesecond blessing of the Amidah uses agricultural/plant imagery throughout as one of its ways of demonstrating the possibilities of ressurections, which would speak particularly well to people living an agricultural lifestyle, and living in areas that are desert/near-desert. So I was thinking about that during my davenen today, and it sprouted, you should forgive the pun, into an observation that while we are so much "above" plants in terms of our intellectual and emotional capacities, so G-d is above us, except an uncountable number of times more so. Just a good image for it, and appropriate to the topic of the blessing.

HUmorously, when I first wrote out that subject line, I misspelled it and wrote tiflah (different root, think tiflut. THe same root spawns the words for child and for parasite in Arabic), which I truly hope this isn't.

Tfillah Thought

I learned, several years ago, from yemeknight's father, that thesecond blessing of the Amidah uses agricultural/plant imagery throughout as one of its ways of demonstrating the possibilities of ressurections, which would speak particularly well to people living an agricultural lifestyle, and living in areas that are desert/near-desert. So I was thinking about that during my davenen today, and it sprouted, you should forgive the pun, into an observation that while we are so much "above" plants in terms of our intellectual and emotional capacities, so G-d is above us, except an uncountable number of times more so. Just a good image for it, and appropriate to the topic of the blessing.

HUmorously, when I first wrote out that subject line, I misspelled it and wrote tiflah (different root, think tiflut. THe same root spawns the words for child and for parasite in Arabic), which I truly hope this isn't.

Adorable and Incomprehensible

I had a brief and adorable interaction with the little girl who lives in the apartment downstairs- besides 'Hello' she seems to speak no English- she speaks Arabic, but I 'm not sure which dialect. So she said Hello, I said hello, she said something I couldn't understand, I said "'arabiyah?" She nodded. Ana laa atakalam al-'arabiyah. She just kept talking. I shook my head. She called for her mother. There was an exchange, and she went back to her apartment. I wish my 2 years of Arabic had done me more good.

Adorable and Incomprehensible

I had a brief and adorable interaction with the little girl who lives in the apartment downstairs- besides 'Hello' she seems to speak no English- she speaks Arabic, but I 'm not sure which dialect. So she said Hello, I said hello, she said something I couldn't understand, I said "'arabiyah?" She nodded. Ana laa atakalam al-'arabiyah. She just kept talking. I shook my head. She called for her mother. There was an exchange, and she went back to her apartment. I wish my 2 years of Arabic had done me more good.

Weird in a Very Mundane Way

Can you believe that I just bought wine for Shabbos dinner because I went to the supermarket where they have kosher grape juice and I couldn't find a single parking space? Eventually I got sick of circling, and just went to the liquor store instead. More expensive, but at least I wasn't wasting even more gas for ages. Now to make sure someone can lend a corkscrew- I sure as heck don't own one.

Weird in a Very Mundane Way

Can you believe that I just bought wine for Shabbos dinner because I went to the supermarket where they have kosher grape juice and I couldn't find a single parking space? Eventually I got sick of circling, and just went to the liquor store instead. More expensive, but at least I wasn't wasting even more gas for ages. Now to make sure someone can lend a corkscrew- I sure as heck don't own one.