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The Schach Windfall and the Box Truck

First a little background: The Sukkah has to be covered by cut vegetation – called “Schach” – (that isn’t made yet into something specific). Most of our Sukkah is covered by...

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“Mendel’s Messages”: A Rosh Hashanah Collection

We’ve posted a lot of Rosh Hashanah posts over the years, here’s a collection of links to many of them.

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The Fantasy Draft Frenzy and Rosh Hashanah

On the Sat Night before Rosh Hashanah, a student burst in to our Havdalah and Pizza, laptop in hand, got right to work, immersed and invested, focused like I’ve hardly ever seen him! It took a lull in ...

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The More is Less Nutritionist

I was driving around doing some errands before Shabbat a week or two ago and WAMC had a nutritionist named Nicole Rodriguez on their VoxPop call-in show program. OK, I know I could lose weight and all that, ...

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TPMS: An Indicator or a Cause? A thought about Symbolism.

For a while now, we’ve been having a slow leak in our minivan tires and the TPMS (Tire Pressure) indicator light would go on. We’d fill the tires, it would last for a time, but after a while, the...