tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55002822748535381882023-11-16T11:10:38.770-05:00Double PortionElishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-11082760620480215772021-02-16T20:01:00.004-05:002021-02-16T20:01:38.723-05:00Binge Watching in the Time of Corona<p>Yes I<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10101506571226079&set=pcb.10101506592029389" target="_blank"> read 78 book in 2020</a>. But that doesn't mean I didn't also watch my fair share of Netflix, Amazon, Disney etc. Here's a rough accounting month by month and then a list of movies watched.</p><p><br /></p><p>My top faves are highlighted<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Feb </b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Offspring Seasons 1-7</span></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Jan </b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Poldark seasons 1-5</span> (Amazon)<br /></p><p> </p><p><b>Dec </b></p><p>Bridgerton (all of Season 1 in 1 vacation day)</p><p>Schitt's Creek</p><p>Queens Gambit</p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">The Expanse</span> Season 5 (amazon - started, still watching)</p><p>Dash and Lily</p><p>Great British Baking Show Season 8</p><p>Yearly Departed</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Nov</b></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Virgin River</span> </span>Season 2<br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Dear White People Seasons</span> 1-3<br /></p><p>The Home Edit</p><p>#blackAF</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Oct </b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Virgin River </span>Season 1</p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Michelle Buteau; Welcome to Buteaupia</span><br /></p><p>Emily in Paris (twice<span>!)</span></p><p><span> </span><br /></p><p><b>Sept</b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">The Duchess <span style="background-color: white;">Season 1</span></span><br /></p><p> </p><p><b>Aug</b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Self Made- the Life of Madam CJ Walker</span></p><p>Indian Matchmaking</p><p><br /></p><p><b>July</b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">In the Dark <span style="background-color: white;">S</span></span>eason 2</p><p>Tidying Up with Marie Kondo</p><p>Babysitters Club</p><p> </p><p><b>June</b></p><p>Queer Eye Season 5 <br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Orphan Black</span> Seasons 1-5 (amazon, started in May)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>May</b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Sex Education</span> Season 2</p><p>Workin' Moms Season 4</p><p>Unorthodox</p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">The Expanse</span> Season 4 (amazon)</p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Upload</span> (amazon)<br /></p><p> </p><p><b>April</b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Never Have I Ever</span></p><p>Ilizi Schlessinger War Paint and Sketch Show<br /></p><p>Lynne Koplitz Hormonal Beast</p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">The Expanse Season <span style="background-color: white;">1-3</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><b>March</b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Grace and Frankie</span> Season 6</p><p>Taylor Tomlinson Quarter Life Crisis</p><p>Doctor Who Season 10 (finished up the very end) </p><p><br /></p><p></p><p><b>Movies</b></p><p><u>Netflix;</u></p><p>Enola Holmes</p><p>Snowpiercer</p><p>Holidate</p><p>Hillbilly Elligy</p><p>The Trial of Chicago Seven</p><p>Easy A</p><p>Over the Moon</p><p>Animal Crackers</p><p>Croods</p><p>Desperados</p><p>Operation Christmas Drop</p><p>Feel the Beat <br /></p><p>Ibiza </p><p> </p><p><u>Amazon;</u></p><p>Brittany Runs a Marathon </p><p>Confessions of a Shopaholic<br /></p><p>Borat Subsequent Movie Film </p><p>Radioactive</p><p>Lincoln</p><p>Just Mercy</p><p>Late Night</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Also lots of Disney (especially live action versions of the classics) and making our way chronologically through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Hayao_Miyazaki" target="_blank">Miazaki movies</a></i><br /></p><p> <br /></p><p><br /></p>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-72671504902134650842020-12-28T07:49:00.003-05:002020-12-28T13:55:04.959-05:00My Father's First Yahrtzeit <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"> <i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the 4th of Tevet, Shabbat Parshat Miketz, Michael’s first Yarzeit was observed. That Saturday night we gathered 70 family and friends over zoom to share some memories and a L’chaim. </span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Here is a <a href="https://harvard.zoom.us/rec/share/v2jLK5BRsfEFUv5F5LxNJGgMKrJ92iI-K88VnDmzhGQf13vDlCHSI72WMpacUcx2.REoPLZmcR4oE3XHK">recording of the event</a> and below are some of our remarks (at the end of the recording you can watch the slide show we put together of pictures from Michael's life).</span></i></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elisha’s Remarks</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi everyone, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">shuavua tov. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for being with us tonight to mark my Abba’s first Yahrzeit which we observed over Shabbat. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything I know about observing Yahrtzeits I learned from watching my father. He would prepare to mark his parents' yahrzeits at home and at shul by dedicating an afternoon to errands. Running to the supermarket to get a small yahrzeit candle to light at home as well as a glass jar of herring and a cardboard container of OJ that would come with him to shul in the morning. He’d also go over to the kosher bakery for a plastic clamshell of tan-colored bowtie cookies or cheese danish, and make a separate trip to the liquor store for a bottle of something worthy of a proper L'chaim. Once my father returned home from these errands, he would sit on his high, black cushioned computer chair, in front of his multiple monitors, catch the string that his glasses hung from around his neck and slide his glasses up his nose, then work his magic to create a display of pictures of his mother, or father - adorned with their Hebrew name. He would get it just right and then print it out and bring it with him to shul the next morning to give those in the minyan a sense of who he was marking yahrzeit for. At home he would light a candle for them, at shul he would recite Kaddish for them, maybe get an aliyah depending on the day. He would give tzedakah in their honor, sometimes share a short word of Torah and make a l'chayim for them. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My mother and brother and I would love to try and replicate that care and personalization tonight - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we invite everyone here to have a drink and a l’chaim and enjoy some nosh</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as we spend the next hour of this evening together, sharing about the mensch my Abba was.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On Friday night our family lit Yahrzeit Candles in Florida and in Massachusetts. This custom felt especially resonant for us on the heels of celebrating Chanukah - during which time we were lighting candles on our chanukiot and thinking about my Abba. Many of you know of his 8 ft hand crafted PVC Menorah that graces the Boynton Beach front lawn, and I’m sure you could surmise that it came from a long standing love of the holiday. Each night of chanukah growing up we lit the candles in our living room, our chanukiot up against our apartment’s largest window, then sat on the blue sateen couch that once belonged to my grandparents and sang each and every verse of Maoz Tzur out loud together. He taught us to be patient for presents and to enjoy the tale that each line offered. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tonight is no longer Chanukah but I feel a message from the holiday applies to a yahrzeit. Yahrzeits holds a duality - it is a time to notice how the qualities of the person we lost live on in us and in the world around us (a real positive force) but also to reflect on how we have been impacted and changed by our grief (often a more negative force). And Chanukah holds a similar duality - the effects of light and darkness. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rabbi Adina Allen, who is an artist and founder of the Jewish Studio Project, says we meditate on that interplay during Chanukah, and I want to read some of her words to you.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “For eight nights we kindle these lights not only for ourselves, but for the world, as we are commanded to place them at the entrance to our home or in our windows for all who pass by to see. As the sun sinks into the sky and darkness sets in, the glow of the lights we kindle can be seen all the more clearly - appearing at once small and incredibly bright; both delicate and powerfully bold… We are announcing as we light our menorahs - that light and darkness require one another to be fully seen.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the face of our darkness we have the tradition for lighting a yahrzeit candle which comes from a line in Proverbs/Mishlei “Ki <i>Ner</i></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><i><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://ritualwell.org/glossary/4/lettern#term294" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Hashem nishmat adam</span><a href="https://ritualwell.org/glossary/4/lettera#term153" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.”—“The candle of God is the soul of human beings.” (</span><a href="https://www.sefaria.org/Proverbs.20.27?lang=he-en&utm_source=ritualwell.org&utm_medium=sefaria_linker" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20:27</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When I learned this line as a teen I was very taken with it and asked my Abba if he would illustrate this pasuk on an olive wood shtender/book stand I purchased in Jerusalem when I was studying there for my gap year. I had done the lettering and wanted him to add his animal menorah from the Artscroll bencher, which he happily did when he came to visit me that year, on Chanukah. I still resonate with the idea of human sparks being tied up with the sparks of the divine and I know my Abba did too and often used that notion to guide him.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So tonight, at the end of your first </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yahrzeit,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> we continue our remembrance of you, Avi Mori - Meir Leib ben Chayim Binyamin, and your divine sparks. As we deeply feel your absence we wish your neshama an aliyah- to go up another notch in the ladder of holiness that it is already traversing. Obviously the first </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yahrzeit</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for a loved one does not mark the end of grief, but it does mark a transition in the mourning process. We’ve moved through the cycle of a year feeling my Abba’s absence at Pesach, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Thanksgiving, Chankuha, at each of our birthdays and for my mom on their anniversary. We missed my Abba in ordinary moments - going through his clothing and finding a pen in his pocket that we knew he was planning to use again but would never get to. Having encountered death, our family is different. Grief and mourning have changed us. And now we let go of the rituals from this first year, and going forward we have yahrzeit and yizkor. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yahrtzeit literally means “time of year” in Yiddish and this ancient wise ritual allows us to publicly mark the anniversary of the death of someone who we’ve been thinking about each and every day of the year</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> throughout this year we’ve leaned on our many communities to support us and we are each deeply appreciative of the ways everyone on this screen, and beyond, did so. We now invite 8 friends and family of my father to share some brief anecdotes about him, which help make his memory a blessing and gives comfort to his family and all those who miss him. I’ve posted the lineup in the chat and after every few shares we will make a L’chaim together.</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 18pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's my honor to ask Rabbi Weiss to share some words with us. Rav Avi is the founding rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale where our family spent so many formative years being inspired by and learning from him</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'd like to invite Alan Zavodnick, member of the Chabad of Boynton Beach who davened and studied with a small chevrah every weekday morning at 5:45am with my Abba, to share a few words</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now we will hear from my mother Marilyn Horen who was with my Abba for almost 44 years and so clearly knew him better than any of us</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's all raise our glasses and toast a Lchaim to the Neshama of Meir Lev Ben Binyamin </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chayim </span>- Lchaim!</span></p><ol start="3" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'd like to ask Livia Vanaver to speak now - Livia is an amazing dance performer and is the co-founder of the Vanaver Caravan - she met my father when he first moved to upstate High Falls, NY. They remained kindred Jewish spirits for all times.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now we will hear from Debbie Jonas, a remarkable woman in her own right, - mother of nine (fact check please), lawyer- and long time close cherished family friend and cheerleader from our years in Riverdale</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lchaim</span></p><ol start="6" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'd like to ask Michael Stone to share a few words now - Michael is a Boynton Beach snow bird representing the close set of friends my parents consider family in Florida. They shared lots of daytrips, exploring myraid kosher restaurants, schul events and many shabbat meals with my parents</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now I'll invite my husband Sam Gechter to speak - the first time my Abba met Sam 15 years ago he told me - one day he's going to make a great dad.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; margin-left: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, my brother Ben Horen will share some words with us - Ben it made Abba so proud to have a child to pass his father's name to and when I look at all these pictures of Abba as a young guy I 100% see you, and know you're carrying on the torch of the family</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lchaim!</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you all for sharing those words and for bringing back such beautiful memories.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Abba loved hearing stories - but as you all know he was not only a man of words - though he loved to study - he was also a man of action - loving prayer, building his sukkah and selecting lulav and etrog on the lower east side, airbrushing children's books, fashioning backdrops of shul plays, designing elaborate 3-D banners in the SAR parade, and always opening his wallet and giving what he was able to tzedaka. It is a custom on a yahrzeit to take action by making a contribution in honor of the person we are missing, and we’ve chosen to do so by sponsoring a day of learning at JCDS, the Jewish community Day School of Boston where his grandaughter Zoe learns in the 3rd grade. Just last year my Abba and Emma were guest teachers for an art lesson for Zoe’s class, and they relished all the times they got to be in that building and see the place that deeply nurtures our family. All the learning in the school on Monday will be in honor of his memory. Through this act of giving we carry on your name in this world Abba. And through these acts of storytelling we keep our memories of you vibrant and alive. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today in shul we read parshat Miketz and learn about Pharaoh's dreams animated by the fat cows standing by the banks of the river being devoured by the lean cows - foreshadowing coming years of feast and then famine. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S'fat Emet, the Hasidic Rabbi of Ger, teaches that what we need to learn from this portion is to prepare ourselves during the good days in which holiness is revealed, to set that light solidly within our hearts so it will be there during the bad days when the holiness is hidden. Abba you prepared us in so many ways during the good days to store up holiness and happiness, and it is what we draw from during these harder days, and in that way </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we will continue to learn from you</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you so much for being here with us tonight. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marilyn's Remarks</span></b></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d652de9d-7fff-4eb3-3c2f-77b0dab3fa59" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: 4pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline-block; filter: brightness(1.32) contrast(1.11); height: 302px; overflow: hidden; width: 226px;"><img height="302" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/mijI_KscVIuM10YILp0lrnH5Q4_qRLWOGFCHDPnuwZJD94rXDICV58evh2IFAeGD2zxADet1LDRBRucz8oUmKluVTYRXiZEJwVwCxmwb8FLBoHz4I90JsFoAj7PgPasS49EwqJiY" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="226" /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: 4pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline-block; height: 219px; overflow: hidden; width: 331px;"><img height="219" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/asQW1p4RRrJgiqQAPhCCmG9hy5UUJlxLM9KbY4CR1D2V4xlArQWv2W0Pk4GhJ5ExCQNsh6cmRcdRIjPUol68zgcAJf8vF6v1Xue72K0_DkhKlMEuS11USEyVJVf9wc2-nz5oe_Kd" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="331" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Michael Horen 1941-2020</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have twelve minutes
ahead of sharing with you. So sit tight and remember -</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michael loved a l’chaim,
repeated as often as possible. Tonight please join in that tradition as you
please.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My deep sorrow, this
grief of Michael being gone, is easier to bear when I know you are all
suffering from a loss as well - the loss of a treasured friend, a fond
acquaintance. I must note that if Michael were to hear what I am about to
say he would ask me to refrain because he didn’t like a spotlight. And at the
conclusion you might think him a saint. So - a disclaimer- just know he was not
always perfect every moment. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the years we had him
he was a light to all who knew him. We would want him here every moment, but I
have to keep reminding myself that he is gone. For me the </span><span style="color: #2c1d07; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">grief of his passing is still a bottomless
well. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We all mourn his leaving
but thank Hashem deeply for his presence we got to enjoy. Tonight we’ll honor
the memory of those enjoyable times. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was no indication
Michael’s time here was so limited. We weren’t at all prepared for his
departing this world. Mickey- I picture your soul is now content and only
joyous. Ours, not so much without you here. In fact we were so unprepared for
your stunning unexpected departure that delivering a eulogy back then was
impossible for me. Now I’m prepared. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was something
magical, mystical about Michael. He was a free spirit. And, he was wonderful,
magnificent, mellow, modest, plus slightly mischievous. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michael: unpredictable -
that was the fun, the richness of life with him! Never a boring moment. An
uncomplicated/complex man of 110% integrity, a Mensch in capital letters. In 44
years every time he walked through the door I was excited that he was home
again.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michael, arrived in this
world June 14, 1941, in Philadelphia - Flag day. It must have been easy to feel
important when your parents tell you that all the flags are flying because
everyone is celebrating your birthday!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Horen family saga-
his father Ben was born in the Ukraine city of Kaminetz Poldolsk, near a hotbed
of Chasidis. When his family came to the states in 1899 Kaminetz had a Jewish
population of 16,000. Family lore has it that his family, the Orenthlechts,
were compelled to leave hurriedly due to an altercation with a Russian military
person. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michael was deeply proud
of his parents. His dad, Ben, was a chemist, a pharmacist and a founding member
of a conservative synogogue in their local West Oak Lane community. His mother
Ethel, after raising two sons, became the millinery buyer for Gimbels. Actually
as one of those serendipities, a congregant at our Boynton Chabad recalled her
as a fine colleague. As Mick polished his Mom’s silver and the samovar in
preparation for our Pesachs he would happily reminisce about her cleaning
tutledge. Her motherly knack of pretending not to notice when he had
misbehaved, was her gift to her chotstkola. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">January 1959 - he
was a graduate in the 211th Class of Boys Central High in Philadelphia. After
graduating from Pratt Institute in ‘64 his gifted art abilities were recognized
when he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the Sorbonne to study
printmaking. He regaled with Parisian stories like being in the Bibliotheque
Sorbonne ungloved and handling, in awe, any genuine Leonardo DaVinci prints he
asked for. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He taught Graphic Arts
at Pratt for 8 years then moved into the illustrating division of the
publishing industry working for Doubleday, Random House, Warner Bros, Rounder
Records and more, producing book and magazine covers, record album jackets for
such musicians as Thelonius Monk, Peter Ustinov, Leon Redbone and Bill and
Livia Vanaver who will speak tonight. He illustrated children’s books. <u>The
Neon Motorcycle</u>, by the son of Norman Rockwell,my favorite, is a colorful
rollicking ride for a youngster on a runaway motorcycle. He continued with
freelance work as well. Steuben Glass commissioned him to design a piece to
illustrate Treasure Island. He did a series of promo posters for a NYC
moviehouse and a poster for the first Earth Day celebration in Central Park.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He became disenchanted
with NYC life and moved to the tiny hamlet Kerhonkson in - upstate NY near
Kingston when his movie theater connection landed him a job managing a theater
in Highland Falls. Still freelancing he biked, hiked, explored and met new
friends in the beautiful southern Catskills. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michael had a lifelong
love of vehicles- Indian Motorcycles, Porsches, BMWs and VWs of all sorts. This
all began at age 16 at his job at Jerry’s -the local gas/repair station.
Michael was the happy owner of many vehicles over the years, spending enjoyable
hours tinkering with them- and when living on West 99th street meeting the
challenge of keeping up with alternate side street parking for three vehicles.
During retirement he acquired a sporty car built on a VW chassis called a
Bradley. When it got to be too much to tow it north to south and reverse - one
became two- one north and one south. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He was also a watch dial
designer and maker of wrist and pocket watches. Cartoon characters were his
specialty. Whether it was fixing cars, making watches, creating illustrations
or gala decor, fashioning a ten foot tall menorah, hanging a picture, improving
his Bradleys, solving a problem uniquely - all his endeavors were done with his
ultimate precision and his 110% mo.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He and I met by beshert
at a flea market in Brimfield, Massachusetts. He was about to turn 35, me 30.
We had both divorced after 7 year marriages. I figure now that Hashem was there
making all the arrangements for us to meet. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I think most who knew
him would agree that Michael was a totally special person. He was a great
raconteur, dignified, humble, a snazzy dresser, a great host, a lively guest.
He was humble, undemanding, calm. His family will remember him fondly as a
devoted father, a fun grandpa with a twinkle in his eye. And for me he was the
best partner, best dinner date, best willing to be adventurous travel companion
and bird watching buddy. He hadn’t yet finished telling me all his stories. You
can hardly get better accolades than that.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A huge hallmark of Mick
was that he always reached out when he saw a way he could help anyone. It could
be putting coins into the cup of an alms seeker, picking up an elderly
gentleman so he could attend schul, or helping create memorable props for schul
and school fundraisers, restoring a friend’s old family photo, a damaged
wedding album, setting up a facetime call for grandparents to watch a
distant bris - just little acts of kindness. He was adverse to the
telling since the giving the <u>help</u> provided his joy. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michael was a gentle
being, he was even tempered, easy going, calm, an observer, acquiescing to what
came his way in life. He made practically no demands. He had a special knack
for genuinely caring and being especially attentive to individuals so they each
felt special. Nothing phoney, he cared deeply. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He loved being silly to
bring joy with his raucous childlike side. High jinx reigned whenever the
chance came - like the time he faked the necessary legal veterinary
papers to make aliyah possible for an ornery dog. License problems? Lost yours?
Need it to show you a little older, younger? He could take care of you. Need
your kid’s name in lights for his bar mitzvah - Mick was your man. You need a
protest sign? He produced one that could be folded into Rabbi Weiss’s suit
jacket and unfolded at a protest before security guards could seize it. One
even appeared in a photo of Rabbi Weiss in Time Magazine. He loved having fun
beating the system.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We all grapple with what
is it we will do with our life. Michael had a wandering soul, he was a seeker
of truth. He journeyed his restless soul until, at age 39, he walked into an
orthodox synogogue in upstate Kingston, NY to say kaddish for his father.
There, a young charismatic Rabbi helped him rediscover his true Jewish roots.
As I, and his friends, watched him embark on this path with such genuine
happiness, exuberance and dedication we all wondered/worried - is Michael going
to become a rabbi? Move to Israel? Does this have staying power? </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We could not understand
that in his life he might have felt like a prisoner akin to Joseph of today’s
parsha. Although Micahel had fashioned his own existence perhaps he understood
that Judiasm was his path to true freedom, his destiny. He trusted himself
knowing that this was what he wanted and needed. He plunged on ahead embracing
his identity as a Jew regardless of those around him. It centered him. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a prisoner Natan
Sharansky discovered what defined his freedom - it was the moment when he
claimed his own autonomy, when he knew he would be true to the image of Hashem
in which we are created - a free person. This must have been what Michael was
feeling as well. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And of course it did
have staying power because Michael had discovered Judaism offered his deep
spiritual side the satisfaction of living a coherent and meaningful life amidst
fellow Jews. This was the life he had been searching for. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So at age 40 when he
became a father to our daughter Elisha we were keeping Shabbat and kosher in a
home we had built in the middle of the woods in the small upstate town of High
Falls, New York. As Elisha was about to turn three we began seeking a school
for her. A Rabbi suggested we look into Riverdale, NY and Rabbi Weiss - already
renown as an all embracing person. We visited there on a day of a street
Festival. A group was dancing in a circle in the street and one man came out
from it towards us - Elisha immediately lept into his arms. This was Rabbi
Weiss. We moved to Riverdale where we became immersed in Jewish communal living.
We enjoyed the full Jewish life Riverdale offered. Michael became a parent
again at age 44 to Ben. We attended the Hebrew Institute, the kids went to SAR.
Chabad moved to town and once more Michael found a satisfying setting that
matched his soul. Thirty years there brought us many treasured friends and
memories.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our Riverdale move
coincided with the advent of the computer age. Michael learned how to do his
airbrush techniques on a Mac. He kept on as a freelance artist with a studio on
23rd Street. A friend there introduced him to Artscroll Publishers who hired
him to illustrate their Youth Megillah. His notably outstanding brightly
colored creative Illustrations for their Youth Megillah continue to bring
happiness to those who own them and pride to his family. While there he also
illustrated Alef to Tav by Yaffa Ganz, Chulin and his bencher for Artscroll is
seen at many shabbat tables and simchas. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What a legacy.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One fine Fall day while
he was helping a less mechanically inclined friend put his sukkah up in
Riverdale, he mentioned he was looking for work. The friend was branching out
from his brochure publishing company into a new endeavor. IDT(International
Discount Telephone) would be the name of the new company and the friend needed
Michael’s technical assistance to set up phone call routing machines for
clients. That began a lifelong close friendship between our families.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Michael stayed on in the
Publishing department and also manned IDT’s charitable kosher mobile soup
kitchen. Twice a week he, with the help of other volunteers, would deliver
bagged meals made in the IDT kosher kitchen to the underserved and needy in
Newark. He had a way of treating each person with dignity and rachmanous. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then on 9/11 he watched
from his office window as the towers fell. The very next day the IDT soup
kitchen was diverted to Ground Zero so kosher meals could be provided. Ten
thousand meals a day were needed there. Surely there would be some hungry Yids
needing kosher food. For six weeks he delivered several hundred meals daily.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He stayed with IDT for
19 years retiring in 2009. I got my boyfriend back and we enjoyed so many great
times. Boynton Beach figured into our lives at that time. We gained new friends
coming to feel like we were Florida family to one another. His day began with a
most wonderful study group at 5:45am at Chabad of Boynton Beach. It filled him
with joy. He had all he seemed to need for the day.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At a routine doctor
visit it was surprisingly discovered that Michael had a blood condition named
Chronic Lymphatic Leukemia. What? Where did this come from? He was closely
monitored since then. It took nine years to discover that it’s origin was from
his presence at Ground Zero. January 1st he succumbed to a virulent metastasis
of the CLL and is now officially designated a Victim of 9/11.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is deeply sad that
his life was taken seemingly prematurely, however we do need to be happy for
Michael, he would want that. We need to be happy because he lived a full
rounded colorful life filled with a collection of very fine friends he cared
deeply about and a family who adored him. . </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tikun olam was his
platform. Michael lived as an example of true chesed and loving kindness
according to Jewish tenets. As is our belief in Judaism, a famous poet wrote -
“the best portion of a good person’s life is the little, nameless, unremembered
acts of kindness and of love.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Going forward please
consider doing any act of kindness, then don’t do the telling in honor of his
memory. You could beam it up and say - This one’s for you, Mick!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beshert. We had a large
share of beshert which we recognized, appreciated and believed in. When
it comes to his passing I struggle with the beshert part. However I am
heartened by the wonderful legacy of illustrations and exemplary midot that he
provided for his children, and most importantly his grandchildren who, to his
credit, are being raised following Jewish religious traditions.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do you recall the story
of two sons passing away while their pious father was at schul? Upon his return
home his wife asked him what he would do if someone had loaned him their
precious jewels and now wanted them back. He replied that of course they should
be returned immediately. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And so it is that
Michael, the precious jewel that he was, had to return to his maker. The
memories of Meir Leib ben Benyomin Chaim should shine lights for our directions
and be for eternal blessings. Michael may your soul have continuing alliyahs,
your life was a blessing to us all. Thanks for the grand ride you provided.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sam Gechter's Remarks</span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So a lot of wonderful people have said a lot of wonderful things about Michael tonight. I just want to share a few things that I miss about him. <br /><br />One thing that I miss is that he was one of the most welcoming people I knew. Whenever we would drive out to their house in Pepperell, and get out of the car, he’d already be coming down the walkway to greet us. He’d give me a huge hug, crushing me against his reading glasses that were always around his neck. and then give me a scratchy kiss on the cheek. And that was better than any welcome at any hotel. We got that anytime we saw him. When we went to Pepperell, or Florida, or when he came for a chag to our house in Somerville, or when he just came for the evening to babysit. It was the same joyous
greeting. <br /><br />And that’s another thing I miss, babysitting. Yes, I do. But really, I miss how he was with our kids. He had so much love for them. He took so much joy and pride in them. He was so good at being silly with them. And he was so patient. We’ve told so many stories of how we would come back from a night out, and ask how things had gone, and it usually some version of we had a really nice time, well so and so didn’t want to go bed, or didn’t eat, and the other one threw up; ahhhh, it was great. He was able to bring so much joy to the everyday over and over again with them.<br /><br />The last thing I want to say that I miss is a concept one of my friends calls a SOAK - Source Of All Knowledge. It’s the person you always call when you want to know about a particular thing, your source of all knowledge on that topic. Anytime I have a question about trains, I call my railroader friend Olin. If I’m not sure how to solve a difficult problem on my Mac, I call Andrew. Whenever I wanted to know how to do something around the house, or anything that involved tools, I’d call or text Michael. Are drywall screws strong enough to hang a metal sign? Do you think the office door would dry OK if I leave it in the garage after staining the wood? How hard would it be to fix our driveway pavers on my own? Do I need glue on the joints between the PVC pipe pieces on my six foot tall Chanukiyah? He would just know. And I miss that.<br /><br />Elisha mentioned that when Michael and I met, and she asked him what he thought of me, he said he thought I’d make a good dad. He had that kind of faith in people. I think about that actually sometimes, at the times when I feel like I’m not being such a great dad. When the kids are yelling at each other, and I’m trying to get something done, and they had woken us up several times in the night so I’m really tired, and I’m starting to loose it with them. I think about the faith he had in me, and I take a deep breath, and I try to do a little better. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ben's Remarks </span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Abba was a steward of life and love. He was a purveyor of joy and his kindness that seemed overflowing and endless. One time we were driving on a road not far from the house in upstate new york. He started to slow down and come to a complete stop in the middle of this road and jumps down from his seat and peeks in front of the car. He then starts a march back to his van. I see him grab a towel and walk back to the front of the car and all of a sudden what was blocking our way in the road is now in his hands and he’s carrying it to the other side of the road. It was a snapping turtle and like the honorary park ranger that he was, he wasn’t going to pass it by and hope the best for it. When he got back to the car he told me he was helping the turtle get home to dinner on time. This was just his M.O., he helped where ever he found he could be of service. this virtue came easy to him, to keep things of beauty flourishing so the next person could enjoy them.<br /> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the summer of 1991 I was five years old and the movie the rocketeer was in theaters. We<br />went to see it and I didn’t really follow the plot, but I was intoxicated by the rocketeer flying with his jetpack. at our country house My abba was always working on something in his garage. I suggested that we could make a project of making a jetpack that could fit me and I could fly around in. He thought this was a great idea! I kept asking him from the get go if it would actually be able to fly me around, he kept saying things like “We’ll see if we can, we might have to go get more parts from the hardware store.” He took an metal hiking backpack frame and drilled two Air ducts into it and glued all kind of extra little switches and buttons. If this thing couldn’t fly It definitely looked like it could. When it was all done and I asked again if it could fly he told me<br />that it probably wouldn’t because the fuel would burn to hot for me to get up into the air.<br />Although I never asked him, i think that he was having me believe that it had the potential to fly because he never wanted me to box in my imagination as to what I could create. He thought that maybe if I believed that it could potentially fly, it would spark me to build something that could actually fly one day.<br /> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Besides Riverdale being a beautiful setting to grow up in, our little corner of friends that were<br />really like family were characters the likes of which only assemble every thousand years. I knew as a young kid that my Abba was a central figure in this ensemble. He had an ease and<br />relaxedness about him that made way for late nights of raucous laughter til you would cry, and<br />bring people into deep and meaningful conversations. He was always patient when listening to people, I believe now that this is because he was thinking on the words someone chose, he<br />wanted to make sure that when he responded and he spoke to where they were coming from<br />and where they were at. His advice and replies weren’t ever minced words, I remember being<br />able to sit in the glow of his affection and relaxed attention when he was speaking to someone<br />and how comforting it was to be around this kind of energy.<br /> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He also shared a very childlike humor with his close friends. It always felt like there was an<br />inside joke that was being shared amongst this group that you wanted to be a part of. If you<br />happened to have the privilege to hear this room of grown men you could’ve confused it for a<br />room full of 8 year olds on unsupervised vacation. This was the camaraderie that he brought to the table.<br /><br />Late friday afternoon, Erev shabbos he would get all ready and dressed for shul. He would have this soft gaze in his eyes that I didn’t ever witness at any other time during the week. He would also carry himself in a very soft manner as well, almost like he was floating on a cloud. “Good Shabbos Butch.” He would say while leaning in to kiss my forehead. I thought maybe it was the heat of the shower getting to him, but I realize now that He was mindfully letting go of the week prior to engage in the serenity that shabbos brought to him. The focus he had when he gave me a bracha later on that evening was also so elevating that we were both transported to a different place. After the bracha he would give me this sheepish smile, like he knew how deep this moment was for the both of us.<br /><br />There is now a vacuum where there was once a tremendous energy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Abba your eyes that had crows feet from decades of smiling, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your hands that made miles and miles of art, sketched ideas, colorful displays, dioramas that were displayed for millions to enjoy </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">your back that postured over your desk for countless days racing against deadlines<br />your legs that carried you to at least four continents<br />Abba you will be missed and I will try to uphold what you held dear every single day of your life. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-84584299620081136522020-11-22T20:12:00.001-05:002020-11-22T20:12:46.892-05:00Finishing Saying Kaddish<p><i> Thursday, Nov 19, 2020 - Elisha gathered friends and family on zoom to mark the 11th month on the Hebrew calendar wherein children stop reciting kaddish for a parent.</i><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I want to start by saying thank you to
everyone who has shown up for me in so many ways over the last 11 months – from
messages, to shiva visits and meals, walks and talks.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I need to say a special thank you to
those I see on daily zoom minyan with the Tremont st shul who’ve helped me
fulfill this obligation to honor my father by saying Kaddish. I tried to say
kaddish once a day with a minyan and I didn’t always make the mark, but I’m
glad for the times I did. Now as this practice comes to what feels like an
abrupt halt, I want to reflect on a few of the experiences with you. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Before Covid hit I had 2 months of
saying kaddish in person and I tried out a lot of prayer places. In addition to
our main stays of Minyan Tehillah and Cambridge Minyan – I went to almost all other
offerings in Camberville and even to some places beyond. I encountered multiple
denominations and their varying siddurim. I found myself among an enclave of young
guys gathered for a utilitarian mincha at Harvard Law School in a fancy wood
paneled classroom where the pace of kaddish was race-like and also in an aging
quorum in a suburban beit midrash where the kaddish pace was haltingly slow and
I envied the advanced age of the mourners. Sometimes I was the only woman in
the room, sometimes I struggled to make myself heard. Sometimes I was leading
the services, or I was listening intently to synchronize with the others in the
room who were also saying kaddish. Many times my kids were underfoot, or in my
arms, and many other times I felt totally alone – saying the words of kaddish with
no other voices joining in.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">That feeling of aloneness intensified
when covid hit and I couldn’t go in person to minyan. I was worried about where
to find online prayer that would permit mourners to recite kaddish. I again started
sampling different virtual spaces and while I found some lovely tefilot I didn’t
feel connected to people in the zoom room. I longed for familiar faces and am
forever grateful that when I turned to TBS we made daily virtual shacharit
work. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">As I would stand here in my office
alone in front of my computer and see your faces and try to tune my ear to
Lieba and Michael and Bruce and Mel and David who’ve been saying kaddish at the
same time, my mind often wandered from the words we were saying, to the person
I was saying them for. I would repeatedly picture my Abba as a young man, with
his dark, bushy, curly hair and his full mustache and beard - at the exact same
age as I am, 38, saying kaddish for his Abba, standing in a small traditional synagogue
in Kingston, NY that must have reminded him of the place he went to with his
father before becoming a bar mitzvah. Many of you know that saying kaddish was
the beginning of my dad’s journey towards engaging in Jewish life as an adult.
Thinking of my dad at that stage daily made me sad for all the things I wish I had
a chance to discuss with him, but it also made me feel incredibly rooted and
like our lives were cemented together in each of those moments. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Often the words of kaddish carry me
without my thinking much about them – these words that seemed so hard to pronounce
fluidly last January I now say without even looking at the page. But when I do think
of the words I am reciting during kaddish – the ones that I feel the most kavvanah,
the most sincere intention while saying, are “yehai shilamah rabba min shmaya” –
may<span> </span>a great peace or feeling of
completeness come down from heaven. The first time I said those words in covid
lockdown I was in our back room with the window shade open looking at Somerville
hospital and imagining all the people who might be in there fighting this virus.-
I was all in to ask God to bring us all to shleymut, complete healing, and to
call on humanity to bring each other peace. The reasons for saying this part of
the prayer have only multiplied in 2020. My father had such complete and
perfect faith as a Jew and as a person and when I say those words from kaddish
I mean them myself – I want a real fix for all the deep ways things feel broken
for people right now, that things feel broken for me right now - and I’m also
channeling my Abba’s attitude and demeanor that there is <i>of course</i> hope
that such a fix can come from above - so I feel that it is <b><i>together</i></b>
– me and him - that we’re praying for a better world.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="byline"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’ve had two opportunities recently to say kaddish together with
others, in person, outdoors and I should have known that the experience was
going to get me totally choked up and make it hard to say the words of kaddish
out loud. It had been a while since I felt really seen as a public mourner and
it felt at once comforting and also like a renewal of grief. Covid has given me
more company in my grief for the changed and limited ways that we’re all
experiencing life. Now this stage of my personal mourning is coming to a close
and in many ways the words I read by <a href="https://www.aish.com/authors/66801232.html"><span style="color: blue;">Dr.
Simon Feuerman</span></a> resonate with me – finishing kaddish is “one more
horrible separation from the person I lost. The Kaddish will no longer bind us.”
</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">So thank you for being here to help me
ease this transition.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUwEJ_h7n1k6ypj__ib1iHOmYoJwR-V0L6XhGvg6gIFcSBsCeEXYLnq6yjDboxvs8FD6EoL27UnF6iLaEAA7Qg7seG8Slh6HzBb2dmPN4GC3puJ1s7ekJUJDM8gGWdonSupLgC8Lgsom6C/s2048/Abbad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1335" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUwEJ_h7n1k6ypj__ib1iHOmYoJwR-V0L6XhGvg6gIFcSBsCeEXYLnq6yjDboxvs8FD6EoL27UnF6iLaEAA7Qg7seG8Slh6HzBb2dmPN4GC3puJ1s7ekJUJDM8gGWdonSupLgC8Lgsom6C/s320/Abbad.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><p></p>
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<![endif]--></p>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-34111428445685297692020-02-03T22:25:00.001-05:002020-02-03T22:27:31.395-05:00Siyyum Teaching for Shloshim<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-6e5dc922-7fff-bd6b-762e-776a29d2c7fe" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>I had the opportunity to teach in my Abba's memory for his shloshim on two occasions last week - one via video to the siyyum Mishnaot at the Chabad of Boynton Beach, FL and one over Friday night dinner at Temple Beth Shalom in Cambridge. Below are the combined words I shared (so a bit long!) and following that the text study sheet I handed out and that we followed.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At his burial in Boston I shared that my Abba’s illustrations have impacted people’s imaginations and learning. He did this through his children’s books like the colorful Artscroll Megillat Esther which many children and adults alike are devoted to shlepping to shul each year on Purim (you may have seen the original artwork on the walls of my parents living room in Boynton Beach). He did this through his precise depictions of the inside of a cow and a chicken in Artscroll's Mishnah Chulin which helps people visualize what they were learning. And that’s just to name a few.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In thinking about how to participate in this siyyum I wanted to learn together with our friends in Cambridge and beyond the two Mishnayot that he illustrated – chulin (the parts he got from the butcher sat in a paper bag in the Artscroll fridge for a few weeks and there were some lunch-time mixups in that Brooklyn office during that time that caused a few laughs) – and Pirkei Avot for kids.</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-7fa0a46b-7fff-bb32-2cab-815f347ccf93" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want to saying thank you and Yasher Koach to everyone who participated in learning for the siyyum for my Abba Meir Leib Ben Binyamin Chayim. Together with his community in Florida all of Mishna was learned in his honor, with our friends focusing on Pirkei Avot and Mishna Chulin which my dad illustrated. People from MA, NY, MI, FL, CL and Israel participated, and many of you reached out to me to share that what you learned was so reflective of the person my Abba was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learning Pirkei Avot together was particularly meaningful to me. Pirkei Avot, part of Seder Nezikin, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-26860481-7fff-95c8-42f9-599f64409cac" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s an interesting Mishna. It's title </span>is translated as “The Chapters of our Fathers” but Avot can also mean main principles (such as an Av milacha in the 39 main methods of work prohibited on Shabbat). And it’s true that many of us learn our foundational principles and values from our parents. I appreciate that my Abba's illustrations grace the pages that contain ageless wisdom and advice that I can continue learning from. Rabbi Yitz Greenberg in his commentary on Pirkei Avot published in 2016, says that Pirkei Avot was compiled to distill rabbinic wisdom for the broader public to absorb. While we came together to study all of Mishna in less than 30 days in the merit of my father, the truth is that these texts take a lifetime to fully understand and unpack as they contain thousands of laws. Rabbi Yehudah Hanasi, the 2nd century editor of the Mishna, was fully aware that most people are not cut out to master all of those intricacies, and wanted to create this special volume that would make our tradition more accessible and one that we can live by. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I appreciate that my Abbas pictures helped make this volume even more accessible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is the practice to study the chapters of Pirkei Avot on Shabbat afternoons between mincha and maariv from Pesach to Shavuot. In fact one extra perek was added to the collection of this Mishna to perfectly match that time span. And since Pirkei Avot begins with the description of the continuous chain of the Oral and written Torah from Moshe to the rabbinic leaders, it makes sense that we follow these texts as we prepare to mark the anniversary of receiving the Torah. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thinking about that time of year, and that time in shul where I studied these texts as a young girl and a young woman, I’m reminded of all the times that my Abba and I walked hand in hand the dozen blocks from our apartment in Riverdale, NY to our shul, the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. Whether it was for Kabbalat shabbat, shacharit, or mincha/maariv, I never felt too old to hold his hand. We traversed a foot bridge that went over a parkway and I remember as I grew how my strides were able to come a bit closer to matching my Abba’s but that he never left me behind to catch up, which enabled us to have many conversations on the way to and from shul. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">שַׁמַּאי אוֹמֵר, עֲשֵׂה תוֹרָתְךָ קֶבַע. אֱמֹר מְעַט וַעֲשֵׂה הַרְבֵּה, וֶהֱוֵי מְקַבֵּל אֶת כָּל הָאָדָם בְּסֵבֶר פָּנִים יָפוֹת:</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First we have my dad's illustration of Chapter 3 Mishna one. This text is often</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-676abcc1-7fff-4c85-88eb-80df92b15f4e" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> said at funerals.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">עֲקַבְיָא בֶן מַהֲלַלְאֵל אוֹמֵר, הִסְתַּכֵּל בִּשְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים וְאִי אַתָּה בָא לִידֵי עֲבֵרָה. דַּע מֵאַיִן בָּאתָ, וּלְאָן אַתָּה הוֹלֵךְ, וְלִפְנֵי מִי אַתָּה עָתִיד לִתֵּן דִּין וְחֶשְׁבּוֹן. מֵאַיִן בָּאתָ, מִטִּפָּה סְרוּחָה, וּלְאָן אַתָּה הוֹלֵךְ, לִמְקוֹם עָפָר רִמָּה וְתוֹלֵעָה. וְלִפְנֵי מִי אַתָּה עָתִיד לִתֵּן דִּין וְחֶשְׁבּוֹן, לִפְנֵי מֶלֶךְ מַלְכֵי הַמְּלָכִים הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא:</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Akabyah ben Mahalalel said: mark well three things and you will not come into the power of sin: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Know from where you come, and where you are going, and before whom you are destined to give an account and reckoning</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. From where do you come? From a putrid drop. Where are you going? To a place of dust, of worm and of maggot. Before whom you are destined to give an account and reckoning? Before the King of the kings of kings, the Holy One, blessed be he.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In his Tanya, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi explores the spiritual and psychological makeup of three classes of people: the Tzaddik ("righteous man"), the Beinoni ("intermediate man") and the Rasha ("sinning man"). So to the Beinoni, "from where you came" is not the putrid drop of the Rasha's corporeal origins, but the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">origin of his soul in its Divine source</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. To the Beinoni, "where you are going" refers not to the dissolutionary destination of the body, but the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sublime heights attainable through his service</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the Almighty. To him, his accountability to G‑d is not the "threat" of retribution for wrongdoing that it is for the Rasha, but </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the responsibility to optimally develop his potential</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Instead of dwelling on the lowliness of the corporeal, the Beinoni meditates on his holy origins, his purpose, and the One whom he is responsible in his mission in life.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">אָמַר לָהֶם, צְאוּ וּרְאוּ אֵיזוֹהִי דֶרֶךְ יְשָׁרָה שֶׁיִּדְבַּק בָּהּ הָאָדָם. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, עַיִן טוֹבָה. רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר, חָבֵר טוֹב. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, שָׁכֵן טוֹב. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, הָרוֹאֶה אֶת הַנּוֹלָד. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר אוֹמֵר, לֵב טוֹב. אָמַר לָהֶם, רוֹאֶה אֲנִי אֶת דִּבְרֵי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲרָךְ מִדִּבְרֵיכֶם, שֶׁבִּכְלָל דְּבָרָיו דִּבְרֵיכֶם. אָמַר לָהֶם צְאוּ וּרְאוּ אֵיזוֹהִי דֶרֶךְ רָעָה שֶׁיִּתְרַחֵק מִמֶּנָּה הָאָדָם. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, עַיִן רָעָה. רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר, חָבֵר רָע. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, שָׁכֵן רָע. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, הַלֹּוֶה וְאֵינוֹ מְשַׁלֵּם. אֶחָד הַלֹּוֶה מִן הָאָדָם, כְּלֹוֶה מִן הַמָּקוֹם בָּרוּךְ הוּא, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים לז) לֹוֶה רָשָׁע וְלֹא יְשַׁלֵּם, וְצַדִּיק חוֹנֵן וְנוֹתֵן. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר אוֹמֵר, לֵב רָע. אָמַר לָהֶם, רוֹאֶה אֲנִי אֶת דִּבְרֵי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲרָךְ מִדִּבְרֵיכֶם, שֶׁבִּכְלָל דְּבָרָיו דִּבְרֵיכֶם: </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He [Rabban Yohanan] said to his students: go out and see if you can discover which is a good path that each person should follow. Rabbi Eliezer said, “Look at everything with a good eye” Rabbi Joshua said, a good companion; Rabbi Yose said, a good neighbor; Rabbi Shimon said, “before you do something, think of what it will lead to.” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rabbi Elazar said, have a good heart. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He [Rabban Yohanan] said to them: I prefer the words of Elazar ben Arach, for in his words your words are included.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chochmah</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is one of the Ten Sefirot (according to Jewish Mysticism these are ten aspects through which divinity enters our world). It is loosely translated as “wisdom”, but viewed through a Kabbalistic lense the hebrew word is much more complex. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chochmah</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> captures the innermost point of inspiration, the first spark of an idea. It is linked to the energy of the first day of creation. It is a wisdom that perceives a greater picture; a capsule that holds within it the concept of everything to come. It is connected to the nothingness before it, and also to the ultimate fruition that will spring forth from it.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">עֲקַבְיָא בֶן מַהֲלַלְאֵל אוֹמֵר, הִסְתַּכֵּל בִּשְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים וְאִי אַתָּה בָא לִידֵי עֲבֵרָה. דַּע מֵאַיִן בָּאתָ, וּלְאָן אַתָּה הוֹלֵךְ, וְלִפְנֵי מִי אַתָּה עָתִיד לִתֵּן דִּין וְחֶשְׁבּוֹן. מֵאַיִן בָּאתָ, מִטִּפָּה סְרוּחָה, וּלְאָן אַתָּה הוֹלֵךְ, לִמְקוֹם עָפָר רִמָּה וְתוֹלֵעָה. וְלִפְנֵי מִי אַתָּה עָתִיד לִתֵּן דִּין וְחֶשְׁבּוֹן, לִפְנֵי מֶלֶךְ מַלְכֵי הַמְּלָכִים הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Akavia feels that all acts of sin involve a loss of perspective. Something appears so desirable, urgent, that all other considerations violations of trust, disobeying God, hurting another - appear trivial by comparison. The person then pushes all the right considerations aside and sins. Someone who understands the ephemerality of earthly life and the awesomeness of God before whom one will be held accountable will never sin, because no goal or pleasure will stack up against the majesty of God and the eternity of judgement. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In his Tanya, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi explores the spiritual and psychological makeup of three classes of people: the Tzaddik ("righteous man"), the Beinoni ("intermediate man") and the Rasha ("sinning man"). So to the Beinoni, "from where you came" is not the putrid drop of the Rasha's corporeal origins, but the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">origin of his soul in its Divine source</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. To the Beinoni, "where you are going" refers not to the dissolutionary destination of the body, but the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sublime heights attainable through his service</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> of the Almighty. To him, his accountability to G‑d is not the "threat" of retribution for wrongdoing that it is for the Rasha, but </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the responsibility to optimally develop his potential</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">. Instead of dwelling on the lowliness of the corporeal, the Beinoni meditates on his holy origins, his purpose, and the One whom he is responsible in his mission in life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">אָמַר לָהֶם, צְאוּ וּרְאוּ אֵיזוֹהִי דֶרֶךְ יְשָׁרָה שֶׁיִּדְבַּק בָּהּ הָאָדָם. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, עַיִן טוֹבָה. רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר, חָבֵר טוֹב. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, שָׁכֵן טוֹב. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, הָרוֹאֶה אֶת הַנּוֹלָד. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר אוֹמֵר, לֵב טוֹב. אָמַר לָהֶם, רוֹאֶה אֲנִי אֶת דִּבְרֵי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲרָךְ מִדִּבְרֵיכֶם, שֶׁבִּכְלָל דְּבָרָיו דִּבְרֵיכֶם. אָמַר לָהֶם צְאוּ וּרְאוּ אֵיזוֹהִי דֶרֶךְ רָעָה שֶׁיִּתְרַחֵק מִמֶּנָּה הָאָדָם. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, עַיִן רָעָה. רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר, חָבֵר רָע. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, שָׁכֵן רָע. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, הַלֹּוֶה וְאֵינוֹ מְשַׁלֵּם. אֶחָד הַלֹּוֶה מִן הָאָדָם, כְּלֹוֶה מִן הַמָּקוֹם בָּרוּךְ הוּא, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים לז) לֹוֶה רָשָׁע וְלֹא יְשַׁלֵּם, וְצַדִּיק חוֹנֵן וְנוֹתֵן. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר אוֹמֵר, לֵב רָע. אָמַר לָהֶם, רוֹאֶה אֲנִי אֶת דִּבְרֵי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲרָךְ מִדִּבְרֵיכֶם, שֶׁבִּכְלָל דְּבָרָיו דִּבְרֵיכֶם: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">He [Rabban Yohanan] said to his students: go out and see if you can discover which is a good path that each person should follow. Rabbi Eliezer said, “Look at everything with a good eye” Rabbi Joshua said, a good companion; Rabbi Yose said, a good neighbor; Rabbi Shimon said, “before you do something, think of what it will lead to.” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rabbi Elazar said, have a good heart. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">He [Rabban Yohanan] said to them: I prefer the words of Elazar ben Arach, for in his words your words are included.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chochmah</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> is one of the Ten Sefirot (according to Jewish Mysticism these are ten aspects through which divinity enters our world). It is loosely translated as “wisdom”, but viewed through a Kabbalistic lense the hebrew word is much more complex. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Chochmah</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> captures the innermost point of inspiration, the first spark of an idea.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> It is linked to the energy of the first day of creation. It is a wisdom that perceives a greater picture; a capsule that holds within it the concept of everything to come. It is connected to the nothingness before it, and also to the ultimate fruition that will spring forth from it.</span></div>
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Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-62876195734695829162020-01-26T15:03:00.000-05:002020-01-26T15:03:08.117-05:00More Mishnayot PicturesHere are more of my dad's pictures from Pirkei Avot.<br />
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Horen’s shloshim on Jan
31st at TBS’s First Friday potluck with some words from Elisha and a
l'chayim to the memory of Meir Lev Ben Benyamin Chayim.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 2 Mishna 13</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 1 Mishna 8</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 3 Mishna 22</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 4 Mishnayot 3-5</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 4 Mishna 11</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 4 Mishna 15</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 5 Mishna 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 5 Mishna 5</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 5 Mishna 18</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 4 Mishnayot 26 and 27</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 5 Mishna 13</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 5 Mishna 22</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 5 Mishna 22</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 5 Mishna 25</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 6 Mishna 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 6 Mishna 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 6 Mishna 6</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chapter 6 Mishna 9</td></tr>
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<br />Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-54159385106462994332020-01-12T13:04:00.000-05:002020-01-12T21:24:46.718-05:00Learning for Michael Horen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Shiva is behind us - thank you for reaching out and supporting us from near and far. We truly felt taken care of, that we had a large circle with which to share our grief as well as our stories and memories. And we know that continues to be the case.<br />
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Now we are into shloshim - the first month of mourning. It is traditional to do some Jewish learning in the memory of the person who passed away. <i>Mishna</i>, the foundation of the oral Jewish law, is often selected as a source of learning since it shares the same Hebrew letters with the word for soul, <i>neshama</i>.</div>
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There were two <i>mishnayot</i> that my Abba illustrated during his time in Jewish publishing </div>
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- <i>Mishnah Chulin </i>(from the order of <i>Kodshim</i>) dealing with the laws of kosher slaughter and diet. </div>
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- <i>Mishnah Avot </i>(from the order of <i>Nezikin</i>) a compilation of ethical teaching, often referred to as “Pirkei Avot.”</div>
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I’m inviting you to join us in learning these texts before January 31, when we will mark the end of shloshim, our first full month of mourning.<br />
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I’ll be uploading his illustrations for you to follow along with and you can sign up for learning here (the idea is for more than one person to learn the same part:</div>
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If you'd prefer to learn another piece of Mishna, there is a full siyyum that my parents community in Florida is organizing and you can access the sign up for that<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11395_sHQg32oAmExYGenoo3_QWEWjfaRRFHMNSZEigc/edit#gid=0"> here</a> <br />
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<u><b>Here are the full set of Illustrations for Chulin </b></u></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 Mishna 2</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">On New
Year's Day, Jan 1, 2020, My father, Michael Lewis Horen, passed away
suddenly in a hospital in Florida. He was 78 years old and I thought we
would all have a lot more time with him. As we begin the ritual mourning
practices I am sharing the words that some my family members used to
eulogize my Abba (my husband Sam, my brother Ben, and my mother
Marilyn).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Over his life my Abba was a student,
a yogi, a hippie, an artist, a wandering Jew, an Orthodox Jew, a Chabadnick, a son,
a brother, a husband, a father, a grandfather, but most of all my Abba was a
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<span style="font-size: small;">In 1941 my father was born in
Philadelphia to Ben and Ethel Horen. His older brother Albert had already been
around for 10 years and the two of them would get into many adventures and some
trouble. My Abba loved his mothers cooking – the gefilte fish she made from
scratch, the matzah ball soup that he adapted as an adult to include ginger and
mushrooms. When he was young he had a kidney disease that relegated him to bed
for a long stretch of time, and his mother bought him a drawing set to keep him
busy. It was then that his incredible talent and love for art began to emerge.
A few years later he submitted a drawing to a radio station contest of the
flying purple people eater and won his mother a sunbeam mixer, which made him
very proud. My dad was a contributing artist to Central High’s yearbooks and
started at Museum College for art in Philadelphia but after a month he had
outgrown the place. He got a scholarship to Pratt and was a Fulbright scholar
at the Sorbonne in France. He told me that when he was there he used to have
access to the archives of the museums and would go into the Louvre and handle
Da Vinci drawings himself. He boarded with a family outside of Paris and sent
his mother a note on the toilet paper there since it was so rough. She
immediately sent him a case of soft American toilet paper. And I can see that
he learned from his mother since he used to Fedex me <i>challo</i>t from our favorite Washington Heights bakery when I was away
at summer camp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As a freelance artist my dad designed
album covers, illustrated books, even knockoff Disney watches, and would
sometimes accompany my uncle Albert on his antique sales. It was at an antique
show that my Abba spotted my Emma for the first time and asked if he could join
her for a cup of coffee. Those two have been having fabulous adventures ever
since. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My dad was 38 when he lost
his father, and he knew he wanted to say daily kaddish for him so he found
himself on a Jewish journey that lead to a new way of living for both him and
my mom. He became a dad at the age of 40 and again at 45. My Abba would get
down on all fours and give us rides on his back around the backyard of the
country house in Upstate NY, or dress as a clown with a curly gold wig and full
face makeup for our birthday parties in our Riverdale apartment. He was an
integral member of our shul the HIR and so many people there, and at the Chabad
of Riverdale, and here in Boynton Beach Chabad which has been his home for the
last 10 years, will miss him and his beautiful spirit, his beautiful suits with
matching Stetson hats, and his beautiful way of connecting with people on an
individual level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He and my mom worked very
hard to put me and my brother through Jewish day school at SAR. He was an
illustrator/Graphic Designer for JJ Gross, then Artscroll, then IDT. My dad was
often offering his artistic services to help out the school. I would always
find him when he was in my building working on some project, and he would often
sign my name on his creations. Not that we fooled anyone that I had made the
art, but my dad knew how proud I was of him and how I wanted everyone to know
who he was and what he was capable of, and it was a two way street. My dad used
to carry me home when we walked back from Shabbat dinner at friends, and
comfort me when I bruised my knees or my ego. He never stopped worrying about
me on the physical and emotional level – last week I feel on the ice in Boston
and hurt my elbow – I told my mom, who told my dad, who called me and left the
most concerned voicemail. My pain was him pain. And that was also true in the
aftermath of a miscarriage I had between Zoe and Erez – he wanted to make sure
I was getting the care I needed in body and mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When my father met Sam 16
years ago he made him feel so welcome in our family, and he has continued to do
so ever since. Every time we showed up for Shabbat in Pepperell, MA or he
picked us up curbside at the PBI airport for our Pesach visits, his face just
shown and he gave each of us a deep embrace and told us how glad he was that we
were here. It meant so much to me that the first man I loved, my dad, loved my
partner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My father became a
grandfather at the age of 71. Sorry we made you wait so long Abba. You were
incredible every minute you were with your grandkids and they love you so much.
When Zoe was born you and Emma came to our house – you did all the snuggling
but also all the cleaning. When Zoe took her first bite of solid food at 6
month it was on the highchair you built for her. When you painted challah with
egg with her, guiding her hand with he pastry brush, I could see all the love
we shared when we did the exact same thing when I was little on kinneret boxed
challot, pouring right into the next generation. My confidence and happiness in
life you taught me and you taught to her and Erez too. Three years ago you
served as the sandek at Erez’s bris and just a few weeks ago you cut a lock of
his hair at his upsherin. You made them so happy and showed them joyful Judaism.
You babysat for them all the time, giving me and Sam a break and time together.
When we would come back sometimes, even if you had cleaned up vomit or had to
read a story over and over or tell my kids how to change a carborator, you
always said to us – why didn’t you stay out longer?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Abba I’m feeling so sad that
I didn’t have the chance to say goodbye to you, to ask you to pass on final
words of wisdom to me. But I realize that you’ve been doing that with me my
whole life. Every time we ended a conversation it was with “I love you.” I have
learned so much from you – even about how to mourn a parent. Though your
parents died before I was born, you visited their graves every year at Rosh
Hashana – driving hours to Philadelphia, sometimes having to hop a fence to get
in. When I travel to Israel the only thing you wanted me to bring back were
small, holy, rocks for you to place on their headstones. I asked you what you
did when you went to the cemetery and you told me that you just talk to them.
You talk to them about your life, about your kids, your grandkids, anything on
your mind. You told me that there isn’t a day that goes by that you don’t think
about your parents. I know that will be true for me for the rest of my days on
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thank you for teaching me
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<span style="font-size: small;">I’m not going to mince words.
This sucks. It’s not fair. I remember when Michael was diagnosed with CLL, and
either you Marilyn or Michael told me that the doctor said “You’ll probably die
of something else first.” Even as things were getting more serious at the
hospital this last week, Marilyn asked the hospital if it was time to gather
the family, and they said oh, not yet. Six hours later everything was crumbling
down around us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I hope no one will take offense
when I say this, but I think for all of us who knew Michael well, Michael was
one of our favorite people. He was one of the best people we knew, and it
always seems like the best people get taken too soon. Seventy eight doesn’t
feel like a long life anymore, but a life cut short. Especially from the
perspective of his children and grandchildren.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It’s not uncommon for people to
have struggles with their parents. There is an investment there that parents
have that is hard to be zen about. There are a lot of hopes and dreams and
expectations that can get in the way of just being with each other. But for me,
being a child-in-law and not an actual child, we didn’t have that baggage.
Michael was, for me, the person I felt like I didn’t need to worry about myself
around. He just accepted me as I was, from the first time we met. He was a big
overflowing fountain of love and joy. He welcomed me with open arms. Not just
at the beginning, something that Marilyn and I still joke about sometimes, but
every time he saw us. He would welcome us literally with open arms, a big hug,
the smile of seeing the people he loved bursting on his face. Michael was the
one who brought joy, who made everyone feel welcome, and happy, and loved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We often talk about people as
glass half empty or glass half full type of people. For sure Michael had his
cranky and cantankerous times, like the times when he was feeling like he was
asked to do to many things and referred to himself as a dunky (that’s d-u-n-k-y
in his Philly accent). But Michael
wasn’t a glass half empty, glass half full type of person. He would be like:
“Wow what a big glass, and what a beautiful glass! I’ve never seen a glass like
that. Such craftsmanship. And there’s so much in it!!! One of the best I’ve
ever seen.” That’s the type of person Michael was. Elisha related a story last
night at the funeral of how when we’d come home from a date he was babysitting
for, he’d tell us all the things that would go wrong, and then ask why we
didn’t stay out longer. it wasn’t just
that. Most nights, we’d ask how it went, and he’d say oh it was great, they
were wonderful. Erez threw up, Zoe wouldn’t go to bed, but they are so
delightful. (Marilyn would said this too, I’ll give you credit). Michael was
just so able to see the good in what was so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some of you know that Michael was
an artist. But he was also a craftsman, in the sense of Betzalel, who led the
design and construction of the ark and tabernacle. Michael could do or learn
just about any skill. When I met him he already knew all the visual arts. And
he knew how to fix cars. He knew carpentry, and watchmaking. When Michael and
Marilyn moved to their house in Pepperell they brought with them some stained
glass windows to have installed in the new house. But they builder sized the
opening wrong. So Michael learned how to work with stained glass, and resized
two windows into one. When he bought a Bradly GT kit car, and it needed metal
work, he learned welding. When he didn’t like the taillights, he learned how to
rework fiberglass. I had always imagined
him teaching me and our kids how to do these types of things. I’m thinking
about all the ways of fixing or making things he won’t be able to show us or
teach our kids. I’m thinking about all the drawing and painting he won’t be
able to do with them, and all the skill and creativity lost. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I’m thinking too of all the silly
things he won’t get to do with our kids any more, all the jokes he won’t be
teaching them… “Did you take a shower Zoe?” “Why, is there one missing?” All
the kiddushes and sukkahs we’ll have to do on our own.</span></div>
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leaves a hole in our world, an enormous hole.
The trick is not to let it be a black hole, that consumes and devours
us. The trick is to have the hole be a reminder for us to fill it: with his
light, with his joy, with his love, with his happiness, with his humility, and
with his creativity.</span></div>
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you took me to my first funeral. I was in elementary school and close family
friends lost their teenage child to a genetic disease. I stood by your side in
that large NY synagogue and watched you openly weep. You taught me it’s ok for
an adult to cry in public. <br />
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You taught me creativity. You designed posters for protests to free Soviet
Jewry that we marched with as a family and as a community, you illustrated
children’s books like the Artscroll Megillah, and technical pieces like the
Mishnah to help people visualize what they were learning about. People have
sent me messages over the last 24 hours to tell me how devoted they are to your
Megillah and wouldn’t dream of using anything else on Purim.<br />
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You taught me about adventure - you traveled the world with us and with Emma -
Costa Rica, Israel, Ireland, Prague, Morocco, Panama, Scotland, Budapest. At
each place you sought out cool art, delicious food and connected with people,
often bringing home a catch phrase that would become a family joke - like “Aren’t
you right Mrs.” from a charming old inn keeper in Ireland.<br />
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You taught me about care. You drove me to elementary school in Riverdale, to
high school in New Jersey- even to college in mid town Manhattan at the end of
many a weekend, to my first day of grad school in Boston, and to my first day
back at work after maternity leave. You knew the name, and the story of every
Holocaust survivor in our synagogue. You left an impression of gentleness and
encouragement on all of my childhood friends. All of us who came into contact
with you felt your care. <br />
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You taught me how to be joyful. You’re 100% comfortable being goofy with our
kids. You taught Zoe Victoria her first joke ever and Erez said to me yesterday
he is sad that he won’t be able to tell Zayde his funny words any more. You
showed me that Judaism is joyful and full of spirit - from singing Kabbalah
Shabbat together in the living room and dancing in a circle for <i>lecha dodi</i>, to carefully selecting lulav
and etrog for sukkot, to singing every single verse of Maoz tzur each night of
Chanukah. <br />
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You taught me how to learn. Abba you were very sure of your values in this
world but that didn’t stop you from learning from different places. When I
returned from Encounter in the West Bank you asked me questions to genuinely
understand what I had seen and heard. When you would come to us for Rosh
Hashana you would spend the first day at Minyan Tehillah, where I was leading
services, and the next day at Harvard Chabad. Each year you would come up to me
and say “sweetheart that was your best davening yet.” You are such a
traditionalist and yet you would try any Haggadah that I was excited about and
you came to Zoe’s birthday party at Mayyim Hayyim’s mikvah even if that’s never
something you imagined yourself doing before. <br />
Because family and learning were so important to you. They are to me too. <br />
I love you Abba.</span></div>
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Abba was a tinkerer, a seeker of beauty and truth, an artist, a mad
scientist
and entertainer. When he turned bar mitzvah age, he was given a mid tier
watch.
The kind of watch appropriate for a teenager in the mid 1950s. His eyes
would
glaze over as he watched the hands move and listen to the gears
shifting. He
had to know what made this watch tick. So he got out his watch repair
kit and
started to go to work. He popped the backing off, took out a few screws.
Within
a few hours all of the gears and moving parts were spread all over the
floor.
He had taken apart the tv remote and put it back together before, but
this was
completely different. Alas the excitement of seeing the working parts of
the
watch was tantamount to the actual function of it. He fit this gear into
that
one, as best he could remember and closed the backing. I don't remember
how his mother Etel reacted, but she adored him; her "Mickele". He
was the light of her life. Around the same age he got a job at the gas
station
slash car repair garage down the block. He would go there after hours to
build
an English style bike from parts at the scrap yard. Any task he set
about he
brought this same DIY enthusiasm. Tinkering and solving on the fly and
doing it
with naivety that only someone who had his patience could do. Soon after
completing his bike he had an accident that had him on crutches for his
first
week at Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts Program. His mother made him
promise
he wouldn't get on a motorcycle again. But when one of the kids on his
block
had been gifted a shiny new bike, he couldn't resist the opportunity to
take
tear up the street. Revving it back and forth, he didn’t see his mother
watching from the front porch. When he came home later she'd ask him
"Was
that you I saw riding on that motorcycle?" NO no definitely not. </span></div>
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I was in high school he could see that I had a deep passion for playing music,
and so he encouraged me to take bass guitar lessons that were more serious than
I had taken before. And of course the best music teachers were in Brooklyn. He
would pick me up after school in Paramus and would already have two corned beef
sandwiches with coleslaw and Russian dressing on a Kaiser roll that he had just
picked up. We would pull into a gas station on route 4 and eat our sandwiches
then head to Brooklyn where he would wait an hour and change while I plucked
away at the bass. He always made sure I had every tool available to me for the
task I was setting out to do. If my guitar needed a repair, we took it to the
factory that made it. If there was a presentation at school he made sure only
the best oak tag or paper was used.</span></div>
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fascination and engagement with people was bar-none. As part of his work, he was
to coordinate a staff to drive a truck into Newark and distribute bagged
lunches to anyone that wanted or needed them. He did this almost every day of
the week so he became a fixture to the people the truck served. The
interactions he had just couldn't be scripted. He had an openness and calm that
disarmed people with the toughest exterior. He approached them as equals
and they reciprocated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Michael’s
journey is over but oh what a wonderful journey it was. He lived a full life:
brother, husband, father plus the privilege of being a grandparent. We’re not
granted the knowledge of when our journey will end but Michael would have been
totally accepting of his fate because he also lived the life of an authentic
Jew joyously.</span></div>
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was privileged to be the partner to a magnificent man. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Together our far flung traveling adventures were
paramount until we discovered life with children and Jewish community life, both
which brought us satisfaction and valued lifetime friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">While many of our contemporaries were planning
weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs for their kids we were going to Kindergarten
parents night. We were late bloomers, he as a genuinely enthusiastic Baltshuva
at age 40 and me joining the tribe. We joked that that was when life really
began. Our lives became filled with purpose beyond ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yesterday morning I walked out the door as a wife.
Today while I struggle through the unanticipated burying of my beloved I know
from his total acceptance of beshert that he is exactly where he needs to be.
We will mourn our loss but remember his outstanding qualities of giving,
bringing joy to many, always doing for others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">From experience I know that the tribe will continue to
provide Elisha, Ben, me and Sam opportunities of strength, friendship
ahead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">May his memory be a blessing for us all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some have a belief that their loved one is watching
over them. Michael has already proven that. As Ben left the hospital he saw
some one had dropped a shirt on the sidewalk. The shirt had a large yellow
crown printed on it with a large script ‘M’ underneath it. Thursday we had a
short layover lay over in Philly- Michael’s birthplace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Michael loved being spontaneous and unpredictable. He
had a special way to help Erez get to sleep with a particular song. Only Zadie
could do it right. I think it’s fitting to sing it to Michael now. <b>Please join in with us as we sing Go to
Sleep You Weary Hobo by Woody Guthrie. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Go to sleep you weary hobo<br />
Let the towns drift slowly by<br />
Can't you hear the steel rails hummin'<br />
That's the hobo's lullaby<br />
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I know your clothes are torn and ragged<br />
And your hair is turning gray<br />
Lift your head and smile at trouble<br />
You'll find peace and rest someday<br />
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Now don't you worry 'bout tomorrow<br />
Let tomorrow come and go<br />
Tonight you're in a nice warm boxcar<br />
Safe from all that wind and snow<br />
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Let the towns drift slowly by<br />
Listen to the steel rails hummin'<br />
That's a hobo's lullaby</span></div>
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Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-61668686930821187892017-10-01T23:57:00.002-04:002017-10-01T23:57:34.535-04:00Yom Kippur 2017<b><i><br /></i></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<b><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I delivered these remarks on Yom Kippur before the Neilah service at Minyan Tehillah in Cambridge.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A few weeks ago, walking the uneven pavement of Holyoke St in Harvard Square, I passed a group on a tour. Towards the back of the group was a gentleman in a wheelchair and as I got closer to him I noticed he was wearing a bright blue cotton T shirt that said “I’m in it for the free parking.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I like your shirt” I got out just before he wheeled past me </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- he looked up at me, right in my eye, and said “thanks.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It was a simple exchange, but also real. I’m often too rushed to take time for that connection. And before this summer I may not have spoken up, because I hadn’t thought of T shirts as ice breakers. I’d treated them like fashion statements, or nostalgic relics people held onto instead of “Kon-Marri-ng” them, or in the age of “but she persisted” - political forms of self expression. But I hadn’t thought of T shirts as a catalyst for connection.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This perception changed</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> for me when my family traveled to Tennessee to witness the total eclipse last month. Thousands of people flocked to the Smokey Mountains, and a horde of us ended up in Cades Cove where hay fields flanking historic wooden cabins made for easy solar viewing. As we all parked, hauled our gear, and passed the hours until the afternoon spectacle, we busied ourselves with connecting a bit to those around us. The easiest way to start was noticing one another’s shirts. From young kids in NASA onesies, to grandparents in eclipse 2017 branded tops, this international motley crew complemented each other one at a time with our fashion finds, and our creativity. Erez and I had on matching literary Goodnight Moon tops - we got and gave out many accolades. But obviously the most profound take away from the day was not a new outlook on T shirts. It was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a new way to look at the celestial beings.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In response, Sam’s cousin</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> David Stolarsky </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">wrote his thoughts on why he too had such a spiritual experience in Kentucky during totality. His words “Maybe it's because having lived on the earth for as long as one has, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">one knows about the sun and experiences it every day, yet one has never actually looked at it, never actually seen it.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> This is the one chance to look at it with your own eyes, and wow is it the brightest white you've ever seen even while "totally" obscured. You just get a sense of it you've never gotten before, the sense you get when you look at anything. A sense of how big it is. A sense of how hot or cold it is. A sense of what might happen if you touch it. A sense of how hard it would be to move.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m captivated by the way David described how looking at the sun switched his perception of it. And I wonder - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">what would life be like</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> if more of our perceptions didn’t just shift, but radically changed. What would be available to us this year if we started to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">look, perceive, and experience the things that we know... differently</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. What would it mean if we started to look more people in the eye as we complemented their shirts, or as we passed them on the street. What would it look like if we </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">experienced ourselves</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> differently, actually looked away from our phones and turned inward for reflection. What if we experienced our parents or our siblings in a innovative ways. What if we took a novel approach to interacting with our colleagues and our political counterparts. Who doesn’t want a bit of change in our daily communication with a partner, with our kids?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Slonimer Rebbe</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, the influential Chasidic Rabbi Shalom Noach Berezovsky born in Belarus in 1911 and died in Jerusalem in 2000, writes about an approach we can all take to help ourselves see other people differently. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> purpose</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of human beings is that they see with a clear lens the Divine light which shines within all Creation.” The concept he is touching on is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Btzelem Elohim -</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">all </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">people are made in the divine image. He explains that the line in Genesis “God saw that the light was good” isn’t referring to the physical light created, but rather Divine light. And therefore, he writes, “[With this vision] a person does not perceive a separated world in which all things are disunited. Rather, [</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a person sees that] everything is One and that a singular elevated power sustains everything.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While his words may move us to want to look at the world differently, and could go on a fridge magnet or on a piece of paper taped to your computer monitor to inspire, it might be </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hard to generate this world view on a daily basis.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> What often gets us looking at something differently is an intense experience, like an eclipse, or a crisis, when changed circumstances push us to a place from where we can take on a new view.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“These may be perfunctory rituals to achieve a “look” of repentance rather than an authentic art of change. But human beings who lack compassion for each other may still have compassion for their animals, especially when they witness them in a state of suffering.” Where people couldn’t see a way to be compassionate with each other, if they saw their animals fasting and suffering it would stir their compassion and that in turn could extend to seeing their fellows as worthy of compassion too.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So we can use this kind of trick, but it can also be a trap. When have we been nicer to a cat than to a colleague, to a passing acquaintance than to our own family member? It’s important to be nice to all these beings </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">but when we are not really seeing the others in our lives</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">we are missing what they need. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And the same goes for missing ourselves, and what we need. When are we giving ourselves too much credit or not enough credit, pushing ourselves too much or not enough? This happens when we aren’t in touch with the movements of our own heart. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Last year I shared an alternative form of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">viduy</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> where we use positive words to acknowledge the good things we’ve done this year, to foster more positive and compassionate thoughts about ourselves and our deeds. Instead of just - ashamnu (אשמנו), bagadnu (בגדנו), gazalnu (גזלנו), dibarnu dofi (דברנו דפי) – we have trespassed, we have dealt treacherously, we have robbed, we have spoken slander - I also said the affirmitive words penned by Rabbi Avi Weiss - ahavnu (אָהַבְנוּ), beyrachnu (בֵּרַכְנוּ), gadalnu (גָּדַלְנוּ), dibarnu yofi (דִִִּבַּרְנוּ יֹפִי) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> we have loved, we have blessed, we have grown, we have spoken positively.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I want to finish by sharing with you once more about how </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">experienced myself </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">at the eclipse. As I saw a crown of light from the sun, circling the darkness of the shadow of the moon I lent my voice to the collective whooping. We needed to give sound to the tingling in our bodies the sight produced. My eyes filled with tears and I held my kids close as I looked at the sky, marveling at the mystical thing I was witnessing. The spectacle lasted less than two minutes, and I cried the whole time. Like in these final moments of Neila on Yom Kippur that we are about to enter into - I tried to soak up the moment. I tried to connect with myself, my family, the crowd, the universe, with God. When the light came back our glasses went back on and immediately I wondered when I'd be able to see a total solar eclipse again, and brush with the divine in a way I never imagined possible. I do not plan to wait until 2024 to see my next eclipse - but I also know </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t need to travel far to be able to see things differently, from a new perspective, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Below are my Rosh Hashana 2013 menus - 60 people will surround our dining room table over the course of six meals. There will be a lot less meat than there has been in years past - my parents are on a predominantly vegetarian diet for health reasons, my father-in-law doesn't eat chicken and half our guests don't eat meat so we're focusing on fish and produce. I'm mightily impressed by my old self looking back at our <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/09/nitzavim-vayelech.html">2011 menu plan</a> (ditto for <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/09/last-licks-haazinu-vzot-habracha.html">2010</a>. 2012 was undocumented here but bless my mother and friend <a href="http://www.sweetamandine.com/">Jess</a> for all their help in making amazing food while I was occupied by a six week old Zoe).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This year's menus encompass both summer <i>and</i> fall food vibes, given this limbo time we find ourselves in, between the two seasons. Last week started out with me enjoying a blueberry beer in an outdoor cafe, and over the weekend I sipped my inaugural pumpkin ale of the almost-fall. On the first night of Rosh Hashana we're going to enjoy some final summer favorites - corn on the cob (which Zoe devours with exuberant typewriter-like motions) and stuffed squash blossoms. But below you'll find instructions for my base recipe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I recently made a facebook promise to share my recipe for stuffed squash blossoms here. The problem is I don't follow a recipe. So I've tried my best to sum up what happens when I get home from the farmers market with big beautiful fragrant blossoms. How I stuff them with goat cheese, or cream cheese, or even shredded mozzarella with chopped anchovies, and dredge them in water and flour, or buttermilk and flour, or even beer and flower. For Rosh Hashana I'll be trying a description heard on the <a href="http://www.splendidtable.org/">Splendid Table</a> podcast by Lynne Rossetto Kasper using a garlic and herb spiked ricotta stuffing and panko-egg coating. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Fried Stuffed Squash Blossoms</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I buy squash blossoms as often as I see them at the farmers markets over the summer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">12 squash blossoms</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1/4 cup flour</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1/4 cup water (or buttermilk or beer)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1/4 tsp salt and pepper </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">olive or vegetable oil</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Start by cleaning the squash blossoms - either by dusting them off and carefully inspecting them for dirt/bugs or by gently rinsing them with cool water and patting them dry. Leaving them wet can damage the blossoms and you want them in-tact for stuffing and frying.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Next use a small spoon or you fingers to stuff about 2 tsbp of cheese into the center of each squash blossom and set on a plate. You don't want them to be over stuffed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Heat a large frying pan over medium-high heat and add 1/2 and inch - 1 inch of oil.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Meanwhile, mix the liquid and flour in a shallow bowl with a fork and season with salt and pepper. Dredge each blossom in the mixture and place in the hot frying pan. Flip each blossom after they turn golden brown - about 2 minutes. I like to use a pair of kitchen tongs for this. Wait till the other side is golden brown and serve.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I find the green part of the blossom (the stem) too bitter to eat - plus leaving them on our plates lets us keep count of who has eaten their fair share.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rosh Hashana Menus 2013</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While I'm simplifying things this year, I'm still trying to uphold our tradition of incorporating <a href="http://food52.com/blog/8002-the-rosh-hashanah-seder-plate">foods that symbolize our wishes for the new year</a> (and whose Hebrew words play up on a related pun). Dessert is sort of neglected in this accounting but we won't be skipping it. It will star sorbet, fruit and my grandmother's recipe for A Bit More - you can find an updated recipe below.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>A Bit More</b><br />
A dessert attributed to my maternal grandmother, Noelle Cadle Swart, and updated this year by my mom Marilyn Horen. Serves 4-6.</span></span><br />
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1 egg beaten slightly<br />
5 tablespoons of almond flour </span></span></div>
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1/3 cup walnuts </span></span></div>
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1 1/2 tsp vanilla </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">3 baking apples<br />
1/2 cup of honey</span></span>
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Sift dry ingredients, mix them in to the slightly beaten egg. Mixture will be thick and ribbon-like when poured. </span></span></div>
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and slice apples thinly and then arrange them in a greased 10” square
pan. Mix in chopped walnuts. Apples should be no more than two layers
deep. Pour the wet mixture from above in a ribbon over the surface of
the apples. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-61061255594666006612013-03-21T23:32:00.000-04:002013-03-21T23:32:03.989-04:00Passover 2013<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">We've long since polished off our Purim treats (including the spanakopita </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">hamantashen </span>I made this year to go along with our Popeye, Olive Oyl and SweePea costumes) and we're almost ready for Passover. This year preparations entail throwing out expired jars of food from the fridge, packing our bathing suits and quinoa for Florida and preparing to lead two Seders.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">No matter how many engaging texts and questions I share at the Seder table, I know that if I don't keep the adults snacking, our discussion will be derailed by complaints of "when are we going to eat?" So I've adopted the custom of serving an array of dipping fare - strawberries and chocolate spread, pickles and olives etc. This year I'm thinking about making the traditional potatoes dipped in salt water more substantial by roasting them with lemon, olives, paprika and dill. And maybe Zoe will even stay up long enough to try some.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia;">R<span style="background: white;">oasted Potatoes with Lemon, Olives and Dill</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">2 lb bag of red bliss potatoes</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">1 Tbsp. of paprika</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;">1/4 cup of chopped fresh dill</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: navy; font-family: Georgia;">2 Tbsp. olive oil</span></div>
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the potatoes in half and scatter on a metal baking sheet. Finely slice
the lemons and olives and lay on top of the potatoes. Sprinkle with the
paprika and dill and the salt and pepper. Drizzle with olive oil and
then bake for 35 minutes until potatoes are golden and crispy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.796875px;">Passover Recipe Roundup</span></div>
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/inauguration-parshat-tzav.html" style="background-color: white; color: #000fcc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;">Smoked Salmon and Swiss Chard Quiche</a><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/passover-time-is-here.html" style="background-color: white; color: #000fcc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;">Banana Nut Cookies</a><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/inauguration-parshat-tzav.html" style="background-color: white; color: #000fcc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;">Walnut Cookies</a><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/somethin-salty-parshat-vayikra.html" style="background-color: white; color: #000fcc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;">Flourless Chocolate Cake</a><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/passover-time-is-here.html" style="background-color: white; color: #000fcc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;">Matza Brittle</a><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/somethin-salty-parshat-vayikra.html" style="background-color: white; color: #000fcc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;">My 2009 Passover Cooking Plan</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;">Check out the full </span><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/p/recipe-index.html" style="background-color: white; color: #000fcc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;">Recipe Index</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;"> for plenty of Passover friendly salads, sides and main dishes!</span><br />
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<b>Passover Online Resource Roundup</b></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px;"><b></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.7969px;"><b></b></span><span style="font-size: small;">A special thanks to my <a href="http://www.hebrewcollege.edu/eser">Eser</a> group for sharing many of these with me</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.jofa.org/uploadedFiles/site/Education/Holidays/Pesah%20Seder%20Handbook.pdf" target="_blank">JOFA
Seder Enhancement Materials</a></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.utzedek.org/files/hcasep.pdf">Uri L'Tzedek Haggadah</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt;">The <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23825268/Passover%202013/JWA%20Haggadah.pdf%27" target="_blank">Jewish
Women’s Archives</a> Haggadah</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt;">The <a href="http://www.jewishboston.com/279-jewishboston-com/blogs/1771-haggadah-blues-jewishboston-com-presents-your-free-downloadable-passover-haggadah" target="_blank">JewishBoston.com</a>
Haggadah</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.jdate.com/haggadah/">JDate Haggadah</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <a href="http://keshet.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Four-Allies-Four-Questions-Insert.pdf" target="_blank">The
Four Questions by Keshet</a> for LGBT allies </span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://ajws.org/what_we_do/education/publications/holiday_resources/passover_reading_2013.pdf" target="_blank">The
Four Children</a> by American Jewish World Service</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8.0pt;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://rac.org/_kd/CustomFields/actions.cfm?action=DownloadFile&file=item.pdf.22070.1076.pdf&name=032411%20Passover%20modern%20plagues%20Final.pdf" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://rac.org/pubs/holidayguides/passover/">Modern
Plagues of Conflict by the Religious Action Center</a></span></span><span></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/131224359/OrHaLevHaggadahSupplement-8-pdf">Jewish Meditation and Spirituality</a> Haggadah insert</span></span><u><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></span></u><br />Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-2428715106751620792013-01-17T21:48:00.001-05:002013-01-19T18:23:12.199-05:00I'm Back for Parshat BoIt's been almost 6 months since my last post here. I've been enjoying my little girl Zoe (born 3 days after my last post - exactly on her due date!). My experience in the kitchen has changed a bit since becoming a mom and I've been mulling over what to do with this blog. I made several unsuccessful attempts to come back and while I don't have it all figured out - I miss it here. I won't be trying to post every week - after 3 years at this and a new little person to look after that doesn't seem likely. But I'll aim to post when something good is brewing in the portion and the kitchen.<br />
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So here I am, back with a throw-back. This week's portion, <i>Parshat Bo</i>, has only been covered once on this blog. It was a post back in 2010 and it was a good one, therefor I'm re-posting it now. Here's a little <i>forshpies</i> (Yiddish for taste/appetizer) of some dishes that recently popped out of my kitchen that I'll share the details of when the tie-in is right: a caramelly date and red onion wild rice, a spicy pomegranate marinated salmon and vinegary barley kale goat cheese salad.<br />
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Parshat Bo circa 2010: [<i>with a 2013 comment in italics</i>] <br />
There are dishes we all like to throw together in a hurry. Some of
mine include scrambled eggs and cream cheese when running late for work [<i>I made that when I was running late??</i>],
sardines and goat cheese over lettuce with <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/01/zucchinis-and-new-mommies.html">my lemon garlic dressing</a> upon returning from work famished and tired, chicken with quartered lemons, rosemary sprigs and peeled garlic cloves when there is a one-hour countdown before Shabbat and a table
full of people to feed. In this week’s
portion, Parshat Bo, the whole nation does some hurried and harried
cooking when they produce flat breads as they’re rushing out of Egypt.<br />
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Picture
this. You’re a Hebrew slave in Egypt and you know your buddy Moses has
been working on Pharoh to let you and your fellow Hebrews go. You find
out that in the middle of the night Moses gets a
call from a distressed Pharoh who says “Get out of
from among my nation and go and worship your God as you have been asking
for.” All of a sudden your Egyptian neighbors are goading you to leave
Egypt hoping it will save them from the final plague. You and your
Israelite friends can’t Fred Flintstone your legs fast enough to get out
of there before anyone changes their mind.<br />
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But you
have the thought- what if I get hungry along the way? So you grab that
bowl of dough you just kneaded which hasn’t yet had time to rise, and
you wrap the bowl in your cloak and carry it over your shoulders on the
way out of Egypt. You had no time for any significant <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2009/12/snack-pack-parshat-vayigash.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">tzedah laderech</span></a>, and it looks like most of your friends had the same idea.<br />
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You
all make it to the outskirts of Egypt. While waiting for the next leg
of the Exodus you bake these unleavened (i.e. un-risen) cakes of
dough, aka <span style="font-style: italic;">Matzah</span>. Nowadays your great, great, great, great (etc) grand kids eat that same stuff at their Passover Seders.<br />
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The
commandment to celebrate Passover - eating Matzah and avoiding risen bread for seven days to memorialize our freedom
- appears in this portion right after the whole Matzah making story. Some
of you may not be so thrilled with the story’s bread banning
conclusion, others may be closet Matzah pizza lovers, or may engage in
debates over Matzah shmeared in cream cheese versus Matzah and butter.
Personally I can’t get enough Matzah brei (rhymes with eye) over
Passover, and I enjoy the first few crunches of <a href="http://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/1851/jewish/Shmurah-Matzah.htm">shmurah Matzah</a>
at the Seder. But I'm always jealous of those who have the custom to
bake their Matzah in a way that is soft and doughy, probably closer to
how the Israelites did it in this weeks Parsha.<br />
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If
you are ever in Israel for Passover you can find these types of doughy
pita breads, or lavash, being sold in the outdoor markets for those who
use them at their Seders. While I wish my family did, alas we hail from
Eastern Europe and stick only to the crackly stuff. But I can enjoy
this type of fluffy home made treat during the rest of the year and am especially
looking forward to doing so this Shabbat. Note that the recipe I use
involves considerable rising time to get those pitas as puffy as
possible, which is not how those who eat lavash on Passover make them,
nor is it very much in the spirit of the weekly portion. So if you're
pinched for time, or feeling like being truer to the text, go
ahead and skip the rising process, the pitas will still be delish.<br />
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I
have made pita/lavash a number of times at home and love the smell that pours out of the kitchen when
I do. I feel a sense of accomplishment as the warm stack of white discs marked by spots of char grows higher as I
cook. Sam and I enjoy the pitas with home made shwarma (chopp leftover turkey, fry it in a pan of oil and
middle eastern spices) or spiced ground beef and chumus when we're
missing Israeli fast food. You can also incorporate aromatics
and herbs into the pitas themselves. I’m going to try adding crushed
garlic and rosemary to some of mine this time around and use them in place of challah at my Shabbat meal. Try the recipe below and if
you can reheat them a bit before serving on Shabbat I think they will
taste like when you first made them- steaming with the smell of carbs
and haste. <br />
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The recipe I use came from a tall cookbook by Marlena Spieler titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Cooking-Marlena-Spieler/dp/0681323213">Jewish Cooking</a>
that my Aunt gave me 5 years ago. It’s the kind of cookbook you can
find at Borders - with the wonderfully large and colorful food
photographs that really entice you to make a dish, and that often
illustrate part of the cooking process. This is a plus for me as I mainly
choose recipes to attempt based on pictures. It's also got a nice introduction that covers Jewish history and food.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pita or Lavash</span><br />
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Adapted from Jewish Cooking by Marlena Spieler<br />
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Lavash
is simply a longer, pocketless pita and this recipe generally yields pocketless pitas. They are best cooked in a cast iron or a grill pan
(or over the grill if you happen to have access to one in the winter).
Feel free to cut out the rising time.<br />
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4.5 cups of flour<br />
1 packet (2 1/4 tsp) of yeast (rapid rise)<br />
1 tbsp salt<br />
1 tbsp olive oil<br />
1 cup of water<br />
Optional spices such as fresh garlic and rosemary<br />
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Combine
the flour, yeast and salt in one bowl. In another large bowl, mix
together the oil and water, then stir in half the flour mixture. If you
want to add spices, such as the garlic and rosemary I suggested, now is
the time. Knead in the rest of the flour and shape into a ball. Cover
the bowl with a damp dishtowel and leave in a warm place for 30 minutes
to 2 hours (depending on your time frame).<br />
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After it has
risen, knead the dough for ten minutes. If you have time, cover and let
it rise again. If not, divide the dough into 12 pieces for nice round
pitas, or fewer for larger longer lavash. Dip your hands into some
flour to keep them from sticking to the dough and flatten each piece
with a rolling pin or your hands. Try to keep the pita ½ an inch thick.
Keep the dough that you aren’t working with covered.<br />
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Heat
a cast iron skillet over medium high heat. Wait for it to get smoking
hot and then add one of the pitas and cook for 20 seconds. Turn it over with tongs a cook for 1 minute
on the other side.<br />
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When
large bubbles form on the bread turn it over again and watch as it puffs
up. Press down gently with a dishtowel, and then cook for 2-3 more
minutes. Remove from the pan and wrap the pita in a dry dishtowel.
Repeat with the remaining dough, adding the finished pitas to the stack
in the dry dishtowel.<br />
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Serve hot!Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-33443152797084379602012-07-27T00:23:00.001-04:002013-01-16T22:19:32.064-05:00Parshat Devarim - Zucchini Territory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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back for the beginning of the last book of the Torah,
Devarim/Deuteronomy. As I'm into the last week before my due date this
seems fitting. Equally fitting because the book opens with Moses
addressing the nation in the 40th year, on the first day of the month
(Next week, right before August 1st, I'll hit the 40 week mark).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In this week’s portion, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parshat Devarim</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, Moses lecture opens with a history lesson (similar to the amazing</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojhdz2Blfw8"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Shlock Rock</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
song); Having emerged a large nation from the land of Egypt, Moses
needed assistance in the leadership department and God appointed judges
to aid him, but that combination didn't seem to keep the nation in
check. The 12 spies sent to scout out the promised land delivered a less
than favorable report, which threw everyone into a panic and their
disloyalty is punished by having a generation wait it out to die in the
desert. Trying to reverse the punishment, some scramble into the land of
Israel to prove their loyalty, but it's against God's wishes and
they're smote by the inhabitants. So the nation traveled and wandered
for quite some time. And during that time Moses was punished and can't
go to the promised land. Joshua will be his successor and is present as
the nation travels on the final leg of their journey.</span><br />
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terminal jaunt takes them though some territory that they must tread
lightly on. Starting with the land of Esav's descendants, then the land
of the Moabites and Amonites, God explicitly instructs them not to walk
around like they own the place. Because in fact they will never own it
and must act like gracious visitors, paying for any food or water
consumed and passing through peacefully. When they try this out in the
land of Heshbon they're met with resistance from the king who refuses to
let them pass, despite their promise to pay for food and drink. God
commands the nation of Israel to take possession of his land, and they
do so successfully and continue on a conquering streak. Some tribes
start to settle in these border areas while others are commanded to do
so in towns of Israel proper. But they must all keep up the fight until
everyone has a place to call home. I'm sure this was a struggle as after
their hard journeys they were probably dreaming of a home cooked meal,
not more battle.</span><br />
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have a recent home cooked meal to share with you. It doesn't have a
very strong tie in with this week's portion, but it was certainly
inspired by bounty from someones territory that I gladly paid for. This
someone was set up at one of the local farmers markets I am enjoying
frequenting. It's a whole different experience to shop this type of
market when pregnant (OK to shop anywhere is different - people are so
friendly and interested in you!). Every farmer wants to know when I'm
due, if I know the gender of the baby, how I'm holding up in this heat.
As my due date gets closer it gives me a little rush to say - I'm due in
a week - don't know if it's a boy or a girl and I'm being sure to stay
hydrated. Hand extend free peaches to me, home remedies for pregnancy
ailments are doled out and gender predictions abound. It's a lot of fun.
Plus I come home with great produce - like the giant zucchini I bought
last week that served us for multiple meals. One of the winning dishes
was a new polenta concoction. After cooking the polenta in a saucepan I
transferred it to a baking dish, topped it with shredded, sauteed
zucchini and cheese and baked it. The polenta stayed soft and pillowy
and the seasoned zucchini and sharp cheese made for a flavorful topping
on every bite. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Polenta with Shredded Zucchini and Cheddar</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 tbsp olive oil</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 large zucchini, shredded or grated</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3 cups water</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 cup polenta</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Salt and pepper to taste</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1/2 block cheddar cheese, shredded or grated</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Heat
olive oil in a medium-sized skillet over medium heat. Add in shredded
zucchini - season with salt and pepper, and saute for 10 minutes,
stirring.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Meanwhile,
bring the water to a boil in a medium-sized saucepan over high heat.
Slowly stir in the polenta and continue to stir until it reaches a
smooth consistency. Add in salt and pepper to taste. After 5-10 minutes
of stirring transfer the thick corn mixture into a small baking pan.
Smooth it out with a spatula and cover with sauteed zucchini, then the
cheese. Bake in a 300 degree oven for 10 minutes and serve hot - the
polenta should stay creamy. Yum.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Past Recipes for Parshat Devarim</span><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/07/cant-believe-i-ate-whole-thing-parshat.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Last time I posted about this Parsha was in 2010</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/sweet-tangy-wings-butter-lettuce-salad-10000001815633/index.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Sweet and Tangy Chicken Wings </span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Asian Short Ribs (had been linked to Golden West, here is a reprint)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Asian Short Ribs</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Adapted from</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jeff-Nathans-Family-Suppers-Recipes/dp/1400081610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277067391&sr=8-1"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeff Nathan's Family Suppers: Bringing the Ones You Love to the Table</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jeff-Nathans-Family-Suppers-Recipes/dp/1400081610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277067391&sr=8-1"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3/4 cup of soy sauce</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3/4 cup of water</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1/2 cup of rice wine vinegar (I buy the Trader Joe's one)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 tbsp of sesame oil</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6 garlic cloves, crushed with a good quality garlic crusher</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pinch of ground black pepper</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6 scallions, thinly sliced</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6 lbs of short ribs</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mix
all of the above, minus the ribs, in a measuring cup or small bowl.
Place the short ribs in a glass or Pyrex baking dish and cover with the
marinade. Let it sit overnight. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flip
the ribs and let marinate another 4-7 hours. separate the ribs into
batches of like-sizes - group the big ones with the big ones, medium
with medium and small with small. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Turn
on the broiler. Start with the batch that has the smaller size ribs and
cook for 4 minutes on each side. Next, cook the medium batch for 6
minutes on each side and then the large batch gets 7 minutes per side.
Keep these in an oven at 150 degrees until you serve them.</span><br />
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The complaining Israelites can be found once again in this week's portion - lamenting the lack of water in the desert, as well as some of the very items that the spies <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/06/secret-agent-men-parshat-shelach.html">recently reported</a> could be found in the land they are headed to. "Why did you make us leave Egypt to bring us to this wretched place, a
place with no <i><b>grain or figs or vines or pomegranates</b></i>? There isn't even
water to drink!" Clearly, they are not the best bunch when it comes to delayed gratification. Soon after their whining, Moses hits a rock for water instead of speaking to it as God instructed and receives the crushing punishment of not being able to complete the 40 year journey with his nation.<br />
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This year I've got another grain recipe - one that actually pairs well with tabouli. It's based on a rather processed form of grain - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_crumbs">Japanese Panko bread crumbs</a> - that adds a great crunch to foods in frying or baking. The plain Panko readily takes on the flavors of herbs and spices and I often use olive oil to bind such a mixture together - mixing the dry Panko with the viscous oil reminds me of playing in the sand at the beach. Which is exactly where I'd like to spend the last few weeks of this wonderful pregnancy - under a beach umbrella, with my toes dug into some wet sand and my hands gripping a bottomless cup of <a href="http://martinellis.com/products/lemonades/lemspclassic25.shtml">chilled sparkling lemonade</a>. <span id="internal-source-marker_0.31180178845215256" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
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<i> </i><br />1/2 tsp salt<br />2 tsp of olive oil, plus 1tbsp<br />3/4 cup of couscous<b><br /></b>1 cup of water<b><br /></b>1 pint cherry tomatoes, diced<br />1 cucumber, diced<br />2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped<br />1 lemon</div>
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Salt and pepper to taste<br /><br />In
a medium saucepan, add the water, salt and 2 tsp oil and bring to a boil
over high heat. Once it reaches a boil, stir in the couscous and remove
from the heat. Let the couscous sit in the pot with a cover on for 5
minutes. Then fluff with a fork and refrigerate to cool completely.<br /><br />Add the juice of the lemon, 1 tbsp of olive oil, salt and pepper to the the cooled couscous. Mix well, then add chopped tomatoes, cucumbers and parsley. Serve cold as a side dish or with tortilla chips
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<b>Parsley and Pepper Panko Turkey</b></div>
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<i>Adapted from two epicurious recipes (<a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Oven-Fried-Panko-Chicken-355470">this one</a> and <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Panko-Crusted-Chicken-with-Mustard-Maple-Pan-Sauce-355192">this one</a>). Serves 4</i></div>
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1 cup Panko (I can easily find <a href="http://www.abigaels.com/products.html">Jeff Nathan's</a> in my supermarket) </div>
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Bake for 25 minutes, uncovered, and enjoy.</div>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-40044493777602674052012-06-20T22:06:00.002-04:002012-06-20T22:06:43.177-04:00Chosen Frozen - Parshat KorachOn the hottest first day of summer I can remember, all I can think of is ice cream. But since I haven't written here in a month I think I should start with some portion talk first - ice cream second.<br />
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This week we read <i>Parshat Korach</i>, chronicling the challenge to Moses' leadership by Korach and 250 leaders in the Israelite camp. They want to know what really qualifies Moses to lead the nation - if they have all been told they are holy people. Moses isn't sure how to handle this confrontation and asks God to sort it out for them. Things don't end well for Korach and his buddies since at that point Moses is clearly the most chosen of the chosen people.<br />
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Moses wonders why Korach and his cronies- themselves leaders (being of the tribe of Levi he is among the group that serves in the <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/02/color-splash-parshat-terumah.html">Tabernacle</a>) - are hungry for even more power. He tries to talk to some of the group one-on-one but they refuse to even come to a meeting with Moses. "Is it not enough that you brought us from a land flowing with milk and honey to have us die in the wilderness, that you would also hold it over us? We won't come." Talk about a mud-slinging campaign.<br />
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Actually, let's talk about milk and honey. I am a huge fan or milk in general, and specifically when it comes in a frozen form. My little babe in utero has certainly been demanding a lot of ice cream lately, and it got to be time to break out the ice cream maker. I had some leftover <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_de_leche">dulce de leche</a> in a jar and went in search of an egg-free ice cream recipe to use it up. I wasn't sure if I should go for a vanilla ice cream swirled with the dulce de leche or incorporate the gooey sweet stuff right into the base of a batch. I was thrilled to stumble on a recipe that suggested the latter, had no eggs, used vanilla extract instead of beans and wouldn't keep me on my bare feet in the kitchen for too long : ) After enjoying the finished product with Sam and our friend Jason we all agreed it was the <i>best</i> dulce de leche ice cream we'd ever had. Take that Haagen-Dazs - I challenge your leadership! And because of the abundance of milk and the honey-like dulce de leche, this dish ties in with the milk and honey zinger from this week's portion. <br />
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<b>Milk and Honey Ice Cream </b><br />
<i>This is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_de_leche">dulce de leche</a> ice cream recipe adapted from <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Dulce-de-Leche-Ice-Cream-238431">epicurious.com<span id="goog_1774420158"></span><span id="goog_1774420159"></span></a> - it is egg free<br />and incredibly decadent but not overly sweet</i>. <i>The recipes calls for pre-made dulce de leche, making your summer that much more relaxed.</i><br />
<br />2 cups of heavy cream (I love a Boston local brand <a href="http://highlawnfarm.com/">High Lawn</a>)<br />1 cup milk<br />1.5 cups of prepared dulce de leche (I used <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Milk-Caramel-Kosher-Salamandra-Argentina/dp/B001KEFNP2">La Salamnadra</a>)<br />1/8 tsp vanilla extract<br />
<br />Boil heavy cream and milk in a sauce-pan over a medium flame.<br />
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Remove from heat and stir in vanilla, then whisk in the dulce de leche until it has dissolved.<br /><br />
Chill this mixture in a bowl in the fridge, freezer or in the counter over another bowl of<br />ice - chill <b>completely</b> before pouring into an ice cream maker or it will not freeze!!<br />
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Freeze in the ice cream maker according to its directions.<br />
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Transfer ice cream to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden for an hour - if you can wait that long! Or just start enjoying right away.<br />
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<b>Past Recipes for Parshat Korach</b> <br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/06/rumble-parshat-korach.html">Chocolate Almond Biscotti</a><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/06/rumble-parshat-korach.html">Rosemary and Chili Spiced Almonds</a>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-22150503077086132302012-05-25T12:05:00.000-04:002012-05-25T12:05:12.663-04:00Happy Shavuot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year I didn't have the energy to whip up my own cheesecake (such as this <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/05/camping-we-will-go-parshat-bamidbar.html">key lime</a> version I've loved in the past) but am excited to devour this four-flavored cheesecake by David's Cookie's that we picked up at Costco. Each slice features some form of decadent chocolate - truffle, peanut butter, chocolate chip, and I'm contemplating how good of a sharer I am going to be this weekend.<div>
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Here is a round up of some great dairy dishes for you to prepare for the pilgrimage holiday of <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/05/camping-we-will-go-parshat-bamidbar.html">Shavuot</a>, commemorating the end of the barley harvest, the beginning of the wheat harvest and the receiving of the Torah at Sinai.</div>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/04/got-your-goat-parshat-acharei-mot.html" style="background-color: white; color: #000fcc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Fried Goat Cheese and Roasted Beet Salad</a> </div>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/06/secret-agent-men-parshat-shelach.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Crostini with Fig Spread and Chevre</a></div>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/07/pastures-of-plenty-parshat-eikev.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Date Stuffed with Goat Cheese and Pistachios</a></div>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/07/pastures-of-plenty-parshat-eikev.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Summer Vegetable Medly with Herbs and Goat Cheese</a>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/06/we-can-do-it-parshat-pinchas.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">French Omelet with Lox, Cream Cheese and Chives</a><br /><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/09/shmini-atzeretsimcat-torah.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Cream Cheese and Lox Roll Ups</a>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/inauguration-parshat-tzav.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Smoked Salmon and Swiss Chard Quiche</a>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/02/color-splash-parshat-terumah.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Tomato Bisque</a>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/02/color-splash-parshat-terumah.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Eggplant Roulade </a><br /><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/09/sukkot.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Garden Vegetable Lasagna</a>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/01/tisket-tasket.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Squash Lattice Tart</a>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/02/color-splash-parshat-terumah.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Blueberry Cobbler</a></div>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/05/camping-we-will-go-parshat-bamidbar.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Key Lime Cheesecake</a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Buttermilk and<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/01/in-bind-parshat-beshalach.html" style="text-decoration: none;"> Jelly </a>Muffins</span></div>
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/08/fruit-fall-ki-taytzeh.html" style="color: #000fcc; text-decoration: none;">Stone Fruit Bake</a></div>
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<br /></div>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-52515318692466537442012-03-29T08:26:00.000-04:002012-03-29T08:26:09.722-04:00A Feast for a Priest - Parshat Tzav<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We're onto the second portion, Parshat Tzav, in the second book of the Torah - Leviticus (or Vayikra). The portion starts off with a listing of several different "korbanot" Hebrew for offerings/sacrifices. Each is brought by a member of the nation of Israel, upon a different life occasion to the Temple, where the priest offers it on their behalf. The occasions include: a sin offering, a guilt offering, an offering of thanksgiving, and a just because offering. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's certainly hard for us modern readers to relate to Temple offerings, but seeing this list of times in one's life when you might be driven to bring an offering could resemble a list of times in your life when you might bring someone a bouquet of flowers (I heard this idea from my teacher <a href="http://thinkingtorah.blogspot.com/">Alex Israel</a>) - you send roses to tell someone you love them, bring a colorful bouquet to someone in the hospital to wish them well, or patch up a relationship misstep. These gifts are all symbolic gestures that express emotions you are feeling, and in Temple times, sacrificial offerings served the same purpose.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They also serve a more practical purpose - the leftovers feed the Priests who work in the Temple.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> A system is set up for Aron and his sons, and all priests who come after them, whereby they eat the leftovers that don't get burnt during the process of offering to God. Three of the offerings have a special system set up - the <i>Cohen</i> (priest) that helps an individual bring a guilt offering, a burnt offering or a baked meal offering gets to eat the leftovers from that one all to himself (in the case of the burnt offering he just gets to keep the skin). With all the other offerings - including the bread, oil and wine that accompany many of the sacrifices - they get divided up among all of the priests serving in the Temple at any given time. It's a sound system.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The way that the meat of all the offerings was cooked was by fire on the altar, which is kept burning continuously. Every morning the </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Cohen</i> dresses in his linen garments and gathers the ashes that the burnt offerings have been reduced to and places them beside the altar, he then changes his clothes to a clean outfit in order to carry the ashes outside of the camp to a clean place.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">While you may not want to keep your stove on all the time or change into clean clothes just for cooking - you too can enjoy amazing meat. I want to share some of the meat I have been cooking lately for <a href="http://www.growandbehold.com/">Grow and Behold</a> and invite you to pop over there for some great recipes like <a href="http://growandbeholdblog.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/savory-london-broil-with-avocado-relish/">London Broil with Avocado Relish</a> or <a href="http://growandbeholdblog.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/porter-pomegranate-braised-kalakel/">Porter Pomegranate Roast</a> or <a href="http://growandbeholdblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/root-beer-spruces-up-the-crock-pot/">Root Beer Flanken</a> (if these make your mouth water, think about using the Double Portion reader discount on their site for a Passover order - "DBLP5" for 5% off an order over $50 and "DBLP10" for 10% off over $100).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Happy meat cooking and eating and almost happy Passover! </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<span id="goog_297283712"></span><span id="goog_297283713"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Passover </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/somethin-salty-parshat-vayikra.html">Passover 2009 menu</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/05/jubilant-parshat-behar.html">Passover 2011 table setting </a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/passover-time-is-here.html">Passover in Prague </a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/03/hi-there-miss-me-sorry-for-hiatus.html">Passover in the Supermarkets</a> <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/03/soft-side-parshat-vayikrah.html">and more</a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/somethin-salty-parshat-vayikra.html"><span style="font-size: small;">Flourless Chocolate Cake</span></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/inauguration-parshat-tzav.html">Walnut Cookies </a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/passover-time-is-here.html">Banana Nut Cookies</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/passover-time-is-here.html">Matza Brittle</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/03/inauguration-parshat-tzav.html">Smoked Salmon and Swiss Chard Quiche</a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/03/hi-there-miss-me-sorry-for-hiatus.html">Chicken Soup with Ginger </a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Perhaps you can find a way to adapt this Baby Moses woven <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/01/tisket-tasket.html">squash basket tart</a> for Passover - I just might try.<br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Also check out the full <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/p/recipe-index.html">Recipe Index</a> for plenty of Passover friendly salads, sides and main dishes! </div>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-38861578064552036202012-03-04T20:56:00.000-05:002012-03-04T20:56:39.877-05:00Empanadas and Pictures from Israel - Parshat Tezaveh Part IIThese <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2012/03/hello-again-parshat-tezaveh.html">Empanadas</a> are delicious when served with some <a href="http://www.cholula.com/">cholula hot sauce</a> and a squeeze of fresh lime juice. Pictures as promised.<br />
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And while we're on eye candy - here are some culinary shots from my Israel trip (if you're not hungry yet, you will be shortly).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The assembly line at Burgers Bar - note the ketchup smiley face</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wine tasting in the North - I didn't actually taste much</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wild flower lemon Herbal Tea in Jerusalem</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First Shwarma of the trip</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Towering meringues in Tel Aviv's outdoor market</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trays of steaming "Marzipan" ruggalach (I brought home 2 boxes for Sam)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I took all of these pictures on my iphone!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dried kiwi! Tel Aviv market</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sam would have loved this shop - fishy fish and olives</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quite the assortment of Baklava</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixed grill</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixed grill appears with onions and hummus in my pita!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nana, or fresh mint leaf, tea</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Halva at the outdoor market in Jerusalem</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Delicious fruit in Jerusalem's outdoor market</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-75231160856060475452012-03-02T13:42:00.001-05:002012-03-03T23:41:51.559-05:00Hello Again - Parshat TezavehIt's been a while since I wrote here. Wow, as in two-months-while.<br />
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There were several times I attempted to return (I have the unpublished draft posts to prove it), but then lost steam. It started out with some morning sickness, which lead to all day sickness and a general revulsion for food preparation, finding myself completely exhausted at 8 pm, expending my energy on keeping a certain secret, then on sharing that secret with some people before they found out online.<br />
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If you're a sharp reader, and I know you are, you may have surmised that Sam and I are expecting! It's a nice piece of news to be able to share here.<br />
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I'm feeling good now in my fourth month but for the first few months I wanted nothing to do with my kitchen. Sam valiantly took over our lunch preparations (I mostly wanted cheddar cheese on whole wheat bread with mustard) as well as dinner (mac and cheese!) and breakfast (hold the coffee, way to pungent). Then I was whisked away to Israel for 2 weeks in January (just as my queasiness was subsiding) to lead a birthright trip for young adults from Boston. But now, finally, I'm here to tell you that there will hopefully be another little portion in our lives come the end of July. <br />
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Well it's good to be back. So let's get to the weekly portion and the recipe! The last several portions in the Torah have included the instructions for setting up the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernacle">Tabernacle</a> - how to build it and decorate it. In this week's portion, Parshat Tezaveh, we get the step by step process on how to inaugurate it - and one important piece of the inauguration is initiating those who will be working there. <br />
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Aaron and his sons will be presiding as priests in this holy, portable building. They are given special garments for the job which are described in rich detail (tunics, pants, smocks, sashes, and jewelry in purple, gold, crimson, teal - hello project runway challenge!). But then, to a clothing designer's horror, they get their apparel all mussed up during the rather messy ritualistic inauguration.<br />
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First a young bull and two rams are placed in a basket along with freshly baked olive-oil-bread. Aron and his sons are led to the Tabernacle's entrance - or as it is called here "the tent of meeting" - for a good washing. Then they are dressed up in their fine outfits, only to be doused in anointing oil. But that makes them ready to begin the steps of offering their first sacrifices.<br />
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They begin by ritually slaughtering the bull from the basket - whose blood they sprinkle on the corners of the alter and the bull gets burned as a sin offering. Next, they slaughter the rams and offer them to God along with the bread from the basket (they get to eat some of this combination too). There is even more use of the ram's blood than the bull's blood. They fling the ram's blood on the alter, smear it on their ears and toes (weird!) and sprinkle some on their clothes. This act isn't seen as defiling or soiling the clothes, rather it is the process that makes the clothes holy. And these holy vestments will be passed down from father to son as each generation takes over the service in the temple/tabernacle. Likely to lead to a hefty dry cleaning bill. <br />
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That beef and bread must have made a great combo and it got me thinking of a way to enjoy both at once as a finger food, with minimal mess. While it would have been prohibited for non-priests to eat the slaughtered meat and specially baked bread during the times of the priests, it's perfectly okay for us to make our own beef empanadas in our home kitchens.<br />
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<b>Beef Empanadas</b><br />
Adapted from a Real Simple Recipe (Pictures will be added later today!)<br />
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1 tbsp olive oil<br />
1/2 red onion, chopped<br />
2 cloves garlic, chopped<br />
1/2 lb ground beef<br />
2 tbsp tomato paste<br />
1/2 tsp cinnamon<br />
1/2 tsp allspice<br />
1/2 tsp salt<br />
1/4 tsp pepper<br />
1/3 cup of dried cranberries<br />
2 store bought pareve pie crusts<br />
1 egg, beaten<br />
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Heat oven to 375 degrees.<br />
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Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion and garlic and saute for 5 minutes. Add the beef and break it up into small chunks with a spoon while stirring. Add the tomato paste and spices and saute for another two minutes, stirring until the beef is no longer pink. Stir in the dried cranberries.<br />
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Cut the pie dough into 2 inch circles using a cup or a cookie cutter. Divide the beef mixture amongst the circles. Brush the edges of the dough with water and fold each circle in half, crimping the edges down with a fork.<br />
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Place the formed empanadas on a baking sheet and brush with the egg. Bake for 20-25 minutes until light brown.<br />
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<b>Purim</b><br />
I'm wishing everyone a very festive Purim next Wednesday night - click here for my <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/02/bloody-right-parshat-titzaveh.html">hamantashen recipe</a> (the secret ingredient is orange juice!)- a great way to enhance your celebrations.Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-60240896513859552412011-12-21T10:32:00.003-05:002011-12-22T00:05:16.398-05:00Surprise - Parshat MiketzI love surprise parties, <i>but never have I ever</i> been to one as prolonged as the one in this week's portion, <i>Parshat Miketz</i>. Joseph’s brothers come to Egypt seeking relief from the famine, and Joseph, who is in charge of food rationing, recognizes them immediately. But they don’t recognize him. It will be quite a while before he reveals his identity to them - hey it’s me brother Joe.<br />
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Joseph first wants to see if they have changed since they threw him in the pit and devises an elaborate plan to test their loyalty to one another. He accuses them of being spies and says that the only way they can prove otherwise is to leave their brother Shimon behind as collateral and bring their brother Benjamin back to Egypt. <br />
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With a heavy heart the brothers return to their father with bags of grain. Jacob is livid when he learns that they want to bring his youngest and beloved son Benjamin back to Egypt - and they are all upset when they discover that the money they paid for the grain was returned to their sacks. Not that they don't like free things, but they don't want to get accused of stealing on top of the spying accusation. <br />
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While their father tries to stall their return to Egypt, the provisions eventually run out and they have no choice but to return. Judah promises to be personally responsible for Benjamin’s welfare and Jacob consent to send Benjamin with them. Jacob also sends them with double the money they first went with as well as some gifts to win Joseph’s favor, including honey, pistachio nuts and almonds.<br />
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Once back in Egypt the brothers get invited to Joseph’s home for a meal. This makes them a little uneasy - wondering if they are walking into a trap that is meant to be retribution for not paying for their goods. But Joseph’s butler assures them that all has been paid for and is well. Joseph is so overwhelmed to be united with his little brother Benjamin and to hear good news of his father’s health that he almost spills the surprise then and there. But he has yet to be convinced of any change in the brothers so he holds off for a bit longer. <br />
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In the final phase of his plan Joseph has his butler slip an expensive goblet into Benjamin’s bag and when the brothers leave Egypt the next morning his servants chase after them and accuse them of stealing their master’s cup. Of course the brothers deny any wrong doing, but when the cup is discovered in the bag of Benjamin they're all dragged back to Joseph’s home where he confronts them again.<br />
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Judah takes responsibility for the crime and pleads with Joseph not to hold one of them responsible but to detain them as an entire group. Joseph pushes back and says he is not that tyrannical, he will only exact punishment on Benjamin since he stole the cup. The portion ends with a cliff hanger - Judah's response doesn't come until next week’s portion. So you'll have to wait a week to find out how Joseph finally does reveal his identity : ) <br />
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The gifts that the brothers bring are the essential ingredients for nougat - a sweet, creamy, fluffy, chewy white confection that can easily be made into airy ice cream. <br />
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<b>Nougat Ice Cream with Honey, Pistachios and Almonds</b><br />
This dish, adapted from this <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Nougat-Ice-Cream-106499">Epicurious</a> recipe, is more like a fluffy frozen confection than a solid ice cream. Picture less dense, less sticky marshmallow fluff studded with toasted nuts. It is made in four easy steps and doesn't even require an ice cream maker (only 4 hours of patience while it hardens in your freezer).<br />
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2 egg whites<br />
Pinch of salt<br />
1/2 cup of sliced almonds<br />
1/2 cup of unsalted, shelled pistachios<br />
3 tbsp honey<br />
1/4 cup sugar<br />
1/4 cup of water<br />
1 cup heavy whipping cream<br />
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Beat egg whites with a pinch of salt in a stand mixer until soft peaks form.<br />
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Meanwhile, in a small saucepan simmer the honey, sugar and water. Stir until the sugar dissolves and then boil the liquid for 1 minute.<br />
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Add to the egg whites slowly while beating. Continue to beat for 4 minutes until stiff peaks form (it should look like light weight marshmallow fluff).<br />
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Toast the nuts over a medium flame for about a minute, or until fragrant. Allow to cool and chop them up.<br />
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Put the beaten egg whites and honey into a large rectangular baking dish. In the stand mixer, beat the whipping cream into soft peaks - pay attention to it's progress and try not to over beat it or your ice cream will be crumbly.<br />
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Fold the beaten cream into the beaten egg whites and gently incorporate the chopped nuts.<br />
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Evenly spread the confection out in the baking dish. Cover and put in the freezer for 4 hours before enjoying.<br />
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Chanukah</b><br />
Happy First day of Chanukah! I hope you all have occasion to celebrate Jewish Pride, religious freedom, fighting for what you believe in, and gratitude. <br />
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I’m also very excited about eating a lot of latkas - including these:<br />
<a href="http://wegottaeat.com/xyzena/recipes/low-calorie-latke">Butternut Squash Latkas</a><br />
<a href="http://yasmeen-healthnut.blogspot.com/2009/12/low-fat-vegetable-latkes-with-cinnamon.html">Healthy Vegetable Filled Latkas </a><br />
<a href="http://www.sweetamandine.com/2009/12/elbow-to-elbow.html">Sweet Potato Curry Latkas</a><br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/dining/01appe.html">Potato Latkas topped with Pomegranate seeds and Greek Yogurt</a> (Ironic?)And...<br />
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<b>Beet Latkas with Horseradish Creme Fraiche</b><br />
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1 potato, peeled<br />
2 beets, peeled<br />
1 small onion, peeled<br />
1/3 cup of flour<br />
1 egg<br />
Salt and pepper to taste<br />
1/4 cup of olive oil<br />
1/2 cup of creme fraiche<br />
1/8 cup of beet horseradish<br />
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Slice the potato in two and feed into a food processor with a shredder disc attachment. Do the same with the beets and onion. Drain the grated vegetables in a large swath of cheese cloth and squeeze out as much moisture as you can. <br />
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Put the drained vegetables in a bowl and add the egg, flour, salt and pepper. Form the latkas by heaping tablespoons and flatten them out using the palm of your hand.<br />
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Heat the olive oil in a small nonstick pan over high heat. Place 2-4 latkas at a time in the pan and fry them for 2-3 minutes on each side- the oil should be hot enough that it turns the latkas a nice brown, but the oil never smokes. Drain the latkas on paper towels.<br />
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Mix the horseradish and creme fraiche and serve over the latkas.<br />
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<i><b>What are your favorite latka and topping combinations?</b></i><br />
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<b>Past Recipes for Parshat Miketz</b><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/11/parshat-miketz-and-chanukah-roundup.html">Corn Bread</a><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2009/12/not-wheat-free-parshat-miketz.html">Wheat Berry Salad with Onions and Citrus</a><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2009/12/not-wheat-free-parshat-miketz.html">Lean Mean Spicy Meatloaf </a><br />
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<b>Chanukah Recipes</b><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2009/12/not-wheat-free-parshat-miketz.html">Potato Latkas with Red and Green Onions and Apple </a><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/11/parshat-miketz-and-chanukah-roundup.html">Suggested Dairy Chanukah Menus</a><b></b><br />
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This post is linked to <a href="http://realfooddigest.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6469d06ed81125b985f152856&id=9d6de65c96&e=c45f5c9f98" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Real Food Digest Hanukkah 2011 Blog Carnival</a>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-58605928845229161122011-12-07T23:51:00.001-05:002011-12-08T12:59:44.597-05:00Fear and Loathing - Parshat Vayishlach<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/12/enough-is-enough-parshat-vayeitzei.html">Last week</a>'s food on a stick - very enjoyable.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Last year, for this week's portion, Parshat Vayishlach, we talked about the fraught reunion of brothers Jacob and Esav. The year before that<b> </b>covered Jacob's struggle with the angel. This year I want to string the two together, as the stories are in fact intertwined.<br />
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While Jacob must be feeling pretty free to be on his own with his family after 20 years under his father-in-law Lavan's roof, he is also feeling fearful of being out in the open. What if they encounter the reason Jacob ran to Lavan's community in the first place? The reason was of course that his brother Esav wanted to kill him, his mother Rebecca overhead this and sent Jacob away to protect him. She promised to fetch him from her brother Lavan's home when things cooled down. Well it's been 2 decades since then and Jacob takes the fact that his mother never came to get him as a bad sign.<br />
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But Jacob is done being passive, and decides to face his fear of his brother head on by sending his messengers to find Esav and offer him nice words. Jacob is certainly shivering in his boots when they bring back news that Esav is coming their way - with 400 men. But again he springs into action, sending presents on ahead to his brother and dividing his family into two groups in case of attack.<br />
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While Jacob waits for his brother to appear he has some time alone, in which he wrestles with someone - the text actually calls him a man but commentators deduce his actions to be that of an angel. After injuring Jacob in the sciatic nerve, he gives Jacob a new name - Israel. This will become the nation's name in the future, and in the interim serves to bolster Jacob in his moment of great trepidation, to better understand the dimensions of his own identity. <br />
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Right after this struggle and renaming, Jacob sees Esav approaching. After much kowtowing on Jacob's part Esav embraces him and weeps. All seems to be forgiven. Except that Jacob wont agree to Esav's offer to travel together, blaming it on the slow pace that his large family must travel at. But it seems like Jacob still doesn't trust his brother completely and wants to keep his eye on him as he travels.<br />
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This week's dish combines elements from both stories. Among the gifts that Jacob presented to Esav were 220 goats. This past Sunday I taught at Limmud Boston and was pleased to see the <a href="http://isabellafreedman.org/adamah/products">Adamah Fellowship</a> selling their food products there. I bought some of their goat's milk feta cheese and think it would pair well with some winter greens lightly sauteed in olive oil and garlic, over thin angel hair pasta. And of course angel hair pasta is a very corny, though delicious, way to pick up on the second story. Enjoy.<br />
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<b>Feta and Sauteed Greens with Angel Hair Pasta</b><br />
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1 box angel hair pasta, cooked according to package directions<br />
1 cup of liquid reserved from cooking the pasta<br />
2 cups of winter greens such as kale or chard<br />
1.5 tbsp olive oil<br />
2 cloves of garlic, crushed<br />
salt and pepper to taste<br />
1 cup feta cheese - for a real parsha tie in use feta made from goat's milk<br />
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Warm olive oil in a large sautee pan over medium heat. Add garlic and winter greens. Season with salt and pepper and stir frequently until wilted - about 5 minutes.<br />
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Toss with angel hair past and feta cheese - add the liquid reserved from cooking the pasta and additional olive oil if desired.<br />
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<b>Past Recipes for Parshat Vayishlach</b><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-sciatica.html">Mustard Encrusted Lamb Roast</a><br />
<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/11/soups-on-parshat-vayishlach.html">Roasted Butternut Squash and Garlic Soup</a>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-84288147028260509912011-12-01T14:17:00.001-05:002011-12-02T09:13:14.181-05:00Enough is Enough - Parshat VayeitzeiAfter 14 years of being bullied by his father-in-law Lavan, Jacob<b> </b>finally stands up for himself. Sure, he was a sucker for spending seven years working for the privilege of marrying Rachel only to be handed her sister Leah and a sap to keep working another seven years to stay with Rachel. But now he is a father to a dozen children and he draws the line - he requests to leave his father-in-law's house with his entire family.<br />
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But Lavan isn't so keen on letting a good deal go. He knows that God has blessed him on Jacob's account and doesn't want to loose that blessing. He figures if he starts paying Jacob it will entice the family to stay longer. Jacob is none too pleased with this approach - finding it impossible to calculate the amount Lavan is actually already indebted to him. "You know well how I have served you and how your livestock has fared with me - the little you had before has turned into a lot." Instead he asks Lavan to pay him with a flock of his own. He proposes to remove the few dark colored sheep and the streaked, speckled and spotted goats from Lavan's flock in order to start building his own.<br />
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Lavan finds this minor donation reasonable but before he knows it Jacob's flock has exploded in size. Jacob devised the following strange plan. He cut branches of poplar and almond trees and carved white stripes into them. He sets these sticks by the animals water troughs, which is, in case you didn't know, the hot spot for flocks mating. By proximity, and some divination, the animals mating near those shoots produced only dark, speckled and spotted lambs. Before long Lavan's sons start bad mouthing Jacob, claiming that Jacob's assets were all due to their father, and Lavan started acting strangely towards Jacob.<br />
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At this point God tells Jacob it's time to hightail it out of there. No more asking permission, just go. Before they can get too far Lavan catches wind of their Exodus and is none too pleased with Jacob slinking off with his daughters and grandchildren and the new flock. He catches up with Jacob and demands to know where they are off to without so much as a goodbye kiss. That really sends Jacob off the handle - "for 20 years I worked for you - 14 for your daughters and 6 for your flock - and time and again you went back on your word to me." It's time to back down. They agree to a pact - of trying to stay as far away from each other as possible - and head on their separate ways. A family feud held at bay. <br />
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This week we're making food on a stick - to mimic the sticks Jacob creatively employed to increase his flock. I first thought food on a stick when I saw <a href="http://blog.kosher.com/">Joy of Kosher</a>'s parsha menu featuring kabobs to remind you of Jacob's ladder. Then, my friend Amy, a devotee to food on a stick, recommended a desert item I wouldn't have considered - pie pops. I am a big fan of <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/02/picture-perfect-parshat-pikudei.html">kabobs</a> but haven't experimented with too many other foods on a stick. Though I did love it when my dad would bring home teriyaki beef strips on a stick from Kosher Express Chinese food in NJ, there was always something a little dangerous about eating food on a stick - you might poke yourself in the mouth or end up with falling food. But I'm willing to take a chance this week after finding so many intriguing savory and sweet options for food on a stick that one could actually make in your own home. Thanks to Shifra for pie pop recipe resources.<br />
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<b>Savory Food on a Stick: Thai Chicken Thai Skewers </b><br />
This recipe comes from <a href="http://www.rachaelraymag.com/recipes/rachael-ray-magazine-recipe-search/appetizer-starter-recipes/Thai-Thighs">Rachel Ray</a> (for a veggie options check out<a href="http://www.hungry-girl.com/weighin/show/2005"><b> Spiced Squash on a Stick)</b></a><br />
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1 lb skinless, boneless chicken thighs<br />
1/4 cup of coconut milk<br />
1/4 curry curry powder or paste<br />
8 scallions<b></b><br />
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In a medium bowl combined the coconut milk and curry. Cube the chicken and marinate in the curry mixture for several hours.<br />
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Discard the white portions of the scallions and cut the green parts into 20 equal pieces. Alternate marinated chicken with scallions on kebob skewers. Broil for 5 minutes on one side and flip, then broil for 5 minutes longer.<br />
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<b>Sweet </b><b>Food on a Stick: Pie Pops </b>(if you're more of a cake person than a pie person try <a href="http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/tips-techniques/how-to-make-cake-pops-078637">cake pops</a>, or for a low fat dessert try <a href="http://www.hungry-girl.com/weighin/show/2005">Grilled Fruit Kebobs)</a><br />
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6 skewers or paper lollipop sticks or wooden Popsicle sticks<br />
2-3 inch round cookie cutter(though you can use a more playful shape)<br />
Prepared pie dough - equal to 18 inches in diameter<br />
6 tbsp of pie filling (you could go with <a href="http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/apple-pie-pops/cb164cb1-bd66-476e-b96f-a6f515b5fa5b">apple</a> pie, or take a short cut with store bought apple butter or canned cherry pie. If you aren't pumpkin-ed out try <a href="http://www.spanglishbaby.com/2011/11/fun-and-easy-pumpkin-pie-pops-recipe/">these</a>)<br />
1 egg, beaten<br />
1 tbsp cinnamon<br />
1/4 tsp cinnamon<br />
1/8 tsp nutmeg<br />
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Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.<br />
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Roll out dough and cut 12 circles in the the dough - remove extra dough so you are only left with the circles.<br />
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Lay 6 circles of pie on a <a href="http://silpat.com/">silpat</a> lined baking sheet. Press the sticks into the dough. Spoon a small amount of pie filling into the center of each circle. Cover each filled circle with another circle of dough - line them up evenly and press down all around the edges with the tines of a fork. Poke a few holes in the dough with the fork so that air can escape while cooking.<br />
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Coat each pie pop with the beaten egg. Sprinkle with cinnamon, sugar and nutmeg. <br />
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Bake in the oven for 15 minutes until golden brown. Cool and enjoy.<br />
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/11/mandrakes-parshat-vayeitzei.html">Salad with Mandarin Oranges and Edible Flowers<br />
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-than-stones-throw-vayeitzei.html">Stone Ground Molten Chocolate Cakes</a><br />
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<b>Thanksgiving Shots</b> - we had a grand time with our mostly vegetarian Thanksgiving. Those turkey legs were so large that it took us several meals to polish them off - the blackened spice rub, lemon and herbs were the perfect balance on the poultry.<br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If ever a child was destined to follow in a parent's footsteps it's Isaac in this week's portion, <i>Parshat Toldot</i>. Like Abraham, Isaac and his family are faced with famine and Isaac formulates a plan to seek food in another area and protect himself and his wife by claiming that she is actually <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/11/journey-lech-lecha-ii.html">his sister</a>. Like Abraham and Sarah their scheme is revealed, but the discovery doesn't have such negative consequences at first. Instead of being banished, they receive protection from the local Philistine king Avimelech.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isaac and Rebecca decided that it would behoove them to continue living under the reign of this king and they do quite well for themselves in his region - sowing crops and reaping abundantly. They continue to grow richer by the day, amassing cattle and building a large home. But soon the Philistines start to get jealous and take to sabotage. They stop up all the family wells, ones that we learn were actually dug by Abraham's servants when Abraham was still alive. King Avimelech sees the unrest in his people and quells the situation by asking Isaac to move away because he has become "far too big for us."</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Isaac relocates his family and takes to digging new wells - but they actually seem to not be new at all. They too had previously been dug by his father's servants, and then were buried by the Philistines after Abraham's death. During the re-digging of these wells Isaacs' servants discover an underground spring of water. And it's back to conflict time - the local herders in the area insist ownership over the water. Isaac has his men keep digging and he gets a visit from King Avimelech, who explains that though his people were hostile to him in the past they now understand that God is with Isaac and they want to make a treaty with him. They agree to not harm one another and Isaac prepares a feast to enjoy together. Isaac's servants dug a total of seven wells that connected to water and therefore they called the area <i>Be'er Sheva</i> - which means seven wells and is a contemporary city in Israel.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">If I had been tasked with preparing that reconciliatory feast I would have chosen something that looked like a well to remind them just who those wells belonged to. And that's what I'll do for our dish this week. You could make anything in a ramekin like <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chocolate-Souffle-106173">a soufflé</a>, <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Cod-Potpies-with-Dill-Biscuit-Crusts-230756">a fish pot pie</a>, or a <a href="http://rock-ur-party.tablespoon.com/2011/11/19/rustic-ramekin-pecan-pies/">Thanksgiving pie</a>, the deep ceramic container invoking the image of a well. The parsha inspired me to buy mini graham pie crusts to prepare my pareve pumpkin cheesecakes in for Thanksgiving. I hope you give it a whirl and that you have some left overs for Shabbat. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 package of diary-free cream cheese</span> (such as tofuti)<br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 egg</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1.5 tbsp molasses</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">½ tsp vanilla</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">½ cup sugar</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">½ tsp cinnamon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">¼ tsp ground ginger</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">⅛ nutmeg and clovers</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 12 mini non-dairy graham cracker crusts</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Candied pecans (optional)</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Heat oven to 350 degrees. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using a hand mixer or a stand mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add the rest of the ingredients and pour into the small crusts. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bake for 30-50 minutes until set and golden brown on top. Let it cool and then place in the refrigerator for two hours before enjoying. Top with candied pecans if desired.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Past Recipes for Parshat Toldot:</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/11/lamb-alive-parshat-toldot.html">Lamb Chulent </a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-beginning-parshat-toldot.html">Lentil Soup with a Twang</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-76224112128189155202011-11-17T16:35:00.000-05:002011-11-17T16:35:36.739-05:00What's a Few Shekels Between Friends? Parshat Chayay SarahWhile the name for this week's portion, Parshat Chayay Sarah, is translated as "the life of Sarah," it actually opens with the death of our matriarch. Though Sarah lived a long life, dying at age 127, Abraham is still beside himself with the loss. He mourns for Sarah and then sets about finding a proper place to bury his beloved.<br />
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Ever since God promised Abraham the land of Israel as an inheritance for himself and his future nation, Abraham has been on the move in and out of the area. They are back in the land when Sarah passes and he must now put roots down in purchasing a burial plot for her in Hevron. He feels like an outsider in the country right now and approaches his Hitite neighbors admitting "I am a resident alien among you, sell me a burial site among you." While the Hitites respect Abraham, they too see him as an outsider and are hesitant to sell him a plot of land for burying his wife, which they know will remain in his family for generations.<br />
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Abraham asks them to help him negotiate with a man named Ephron who owns a cave that Abraham has eyed as a perfect place to bury Sarah. But Ephron overhears the conversation and simply offers the cave - and the field too - for Abraham to use (but not buy!) to bury his wife. Abraham insists that he wants to pay for the plot and Ephron slyly replies "listen, a piece of land worth 400 silver shekels - what is that between you and me - take it and bury your dead." But Abraham insists on owning the place to indeed pass on to future generations so that more of his family can be buried there, visited and respected. Abraham pays him the money and buries Sarah in the cave of Machpelah and comes to own the cave and all the trees in the adjacent field.<br />
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The coins that so reluctantly passed hands to purchase a place that remains holy to so many people today can be represented in many different food dishes. Below I have recipe for a Middle Eastern inspired salad crowned with golden roasted eggplant slices. <br />
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<b>Sabich Salad</b><br />
I read about this Iraqi egg and eggplant sandwich on <a href="http://kveller.com/activities/food/Sabich.shtml">kveller</a> this week and made it for lunch to take to work. It was beyond delicious (with the addition of a veggie burger and farmers cheese) and I realized it would make a great Shabbat salad.<br />
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1lb of thin eggplant <br />
1 tbsp olive oil<br />
Salt and pepper 2 eggs<br />
2 veggie burgers, defrosted (you could use meat if you want to omit the farmers cheese)<br />
2 tbsp tehina<br />
2 tbsp lemon juice (fresh)<br />
1/4 cup parsley, finely chopped<br />
2 tomatoes, chopped<br />
1 cucumber, chopped<br />
2 tbsp farmers cheese (optional)<br />
1 head of lettuce, rinsed and torn into bite sized pieces<br />
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Slice the eggplant into 1/4 inch rounds and salt on both sides. Let them sit for 30 minutes and then rinse.<br />
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Meanwhile Boil the eggs in their shell a small saucepan as you would for making egg salad. Once cooked and cooled, peel the eggs and chop them up.<br />
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Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Lay the rinsed eggplant out on a baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper. Roast for 30 minutes to one hour until dark brown and tender.<br />
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Brown the veggie burgers in a pan and then crumble with a fork or spoon. Set aside.<br />
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To make the dressing mix the tehina, lemon juice and parsley with 1/4 cup of water and a touch of olive oil. Add salt and pepper to taste.<br />
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To assemble the salad throw the lettuce into a bowl and add in the egg, eggplant slices, crumbled veggie burger, chopped tomato and cucumber and c=farmers cheese if using. Toss with the dressing.<br />
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<b>Thanksgiving Menu</b><br />
This year we're having a vegetarian centered meal - but there will still be a bit of turkey for me and Sam - legs to make up for the ones we <a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2010/11/post-thanksgiving.html">missed out on last year<b> </b></a><br />
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<a href="http://elishasdoubleportion.blogspot.com/2011/11/journey-lech-lecha-ii.html"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cinnamon apple sauce </span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Butternut squash fries</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brussels sprouts</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2011/10/roasted-cauliflower-with-date-soup">Roasted cauliflower with date sauce</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cornbread and vegetarian sausage stuffing</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cranberry sauce with maple apples and ginger</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Turkey legs </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pecan/pumpkin pie</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Non dairy vanilla ice cream</span><br />
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</a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P.S While it's annoying that stores already have Christmas merchandise out before we've even cooked the Thanksgiving Turkey - Target gets a shout out for having a whole aisle devoted to Chanukah items!</span>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-77834532041998949542011-11-10T12:07:00.002-05:002011-12-18T22:18:51.196-05:00Hospitable - Parshat Vayeyra<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Avraham and Sarah sure know how to show guests a good time in this week's portion, <i>Parshat Vayeyra</i>. They tell a trio of traveling men who happen upon their tent to make themselves comfy, offer them a little shade, a little water and then parade out an entire feast - freshly baked bread, tender meat and fresh cheese. Not the most kosher meal, but there is much we can learn from the way that this famously hospitable couple took care of their guests. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm related to a woman who also knew how to make someone feel welcomed and special in her home - this week was my paternal grandmother's<i> yartzeit</i> (anniversary of passing). In her honor I brought the following text and some delicious desserts to work and learned with my friends Sara and Rosa in her memory. Here is what we we studied and the lessons we peeled away:</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2) Looking up [Avraham] saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them and bowing to the ground 3) he said My Lords, if it please you, don’t go past your servant 4) Let a little water be brought, bathe your feet and recline under the tree. 5) And let me fetch a morsel of bread that you may refresh yourselves then go on, seeing that you have come your servant’s way. They replied, “do as you have said.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">6) Avraham hurried to the tent to Sarah and says “quick, prepare three servings of our best flour – knead it and make cakes. 7) And Avraham ran to the cattle and took a young good calf and gave him to a servant boy who hastened to prepare it. 8) And Avraham took curds (butter or cheese) and milk and the prepared calf and set it in front of the men and he waited on them under the tree while they ate.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here's what we ladies took as lessons from the text:</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">- Under-promise and over deliver</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">- Give the best of what you've got</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">- Be at ease with spur of the moment hospitality </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">- Enlist the help of others in your kitchen - know how to ask for it and be sure to accept help</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the spirit of help in the kitchen and visitors, we have a guest chef this week - my husband Sam! Though I tend to spend more time in our kitchen than he does, there are a few things that he cooks much better than I can cook. Case in point - his mother's enchiladas, which he makes each year for his Shabbat birthday meal. I asked him to make a batch this week in honor of the weekly portion since it is the only way we can enjoy the "meat," cheese and great bread found in the text in one sitting (thank you <a href="http://www.morningstarfarms.com/morningstar-farms-meal-starters-grillers-recipe-crumbles.html">recipe crumbles</a>). </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Enchiladas</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Sam insists that fake meat does a much better job at getting at the texture of real meat than fake cheese can ever do for real cheese. When it comes to his enchiladas I most certainly agree - the cheese melts perfectly and we use <a href="http://www.morningstarfarms.com/morningstar-farms-meal-starters-grillers-recipe-crumbles.html">recipe crumbles</a>, a morning star farm product, to achieve that meaty texture.</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b> </b></i><br />
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6 flour tortillas<br />
1 can Enchilada sauce (green or red - comes in cans or you can buy a packet of seasoning to add to a can of tomato sauce)<br />
3 tbsp onion flakes<br />
Sliced canned black olives<br />
6 ounces Cheddar cheese, shredded<br />
1 cup of recipe crumbles<br />
1 mini can of green chilies<br />
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.<br />
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Lay out all ingredients in bowls or dishes and set out a Pyrex baking dish.<br />
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To make the tortillas easier to work with heat them up for a few seconds in a microwave or over a low flame in a skillet. <br />
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Take each tortilla and put some recipe crumbles, cheese, chilies, onion and olives down the center of the tortilla in a thin strip and then roll the tortilla up. Place it seam side down in tray. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Repeat until you have filled 6 tortillas. Ladle the enchilada sauce over the full pan and top with cheese and olives.<br />
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Cook for 30 minutes until bubbly and brown.<br />
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</span></div>Elishaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393456845314563122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500282274853538188.post-3365783339112072242011-11-02T19:40:00.000-04:002011-11-02T19:40:04.886-04:00Journey - Lech Lecha II<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>We first get to know Abraham in this week's portion, Parshat Lech Lecha, as he begins his journey of self discovery. We learn that he is son to Terach, husband to fellow God-devotee Sara, and uncle/fellow sheepherder to the sketchy character Lot. He looses his father, is unable to have children with Sara (both at the tail end of last week's portion) and is commanded by God to leave his homeland for a new land which God will give. Ever since that command, Abraham has been trying to figure out who he is.<br />
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Over the course of the journey we see he cares about others and also cares about himself. When a famine strikes the land Abraham takes Sara and Lot to Egypt for relief. Right before they enter the country Abraham acknowledges Sara's beauty and requests that she tell others that she is his sister so that men who are attracted to her will not harm Abraham. Sara complies, but the plan backfires when Pharoh takes a liking to Sarah and his household is struck by a plague. Pharoh is none too pleased when he figures out that Abraham is her husband and they get booted out of Egypt. After this incident Lot's herdsmen and Abraham's herdsmen quarrel so badly that Abraham suggests they part ways. He gives Lot first choice of land to settle and shepherd in and later when Lot is involved in a conflict with foreign kings Abraham steps in to negotiate for his safety. We see Abraham is devoted to family and has a yen for self preservation.<br />
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Throughout the portion God repeats the mantra that <i>He plans to make Abraham into a great nation and give the nation the land of Israel</i>. Whenever things seem to go off track from that vision - they travel to another country, get involved in a contentious situation or struggle - God steps back into the picture and utters that promise again. "You will be as uncountable as the sands of the earth"... "As numerous as the stars in the sky." "Look westward, eastward, northward and southward ... all of this land I give to you."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As numerous as the grains of quinoa</td></tr>
</tbody></table>But to a guy in his nineties, married to Sarah who faces infertility, it's a hard thing to fathom. He asks God if this promised nation will come from his servant Eliezer. God tells him no, it will start with one of his own children. When he asks if it will come from the child he has with his Egyptian handmade Hagar, God says, no that's not it either. It's going to be a son born to his wife Sarah - and with that one little seed, a great nation will grow. God promises that they will have a child in one year's time - they just have to have faith, and before they know it they won't even be able to count their descendants.<br />
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That image of a nation starting so small and eventually overflowing translates well into food. Imagine a pot of water flecked with little slivers of hard grain quinoa transformed in less than 30 minutes to a fluffy mound of soft grains that overtake the liquid and nearly fill the pot. I love quinoa for it's nutty flavor, it's punch of protein, and it's ease in pairing with other flavors. I find its soft grains mimic large grains of sand and evoke the repeated promise to have a nation as numerous as the sands of the earth. My friend Batya recently let me know that a box of the stuff can be procured at both Trader Joe's and Whole Foods for just $4 - another reason to love it. This week I was in search of a quionoa recipe to pair with cider braised chicken this Shabbat (look out for that recipe soon over at <a href="http://growandbeholdblog.wordpress.com/">Grow and Behold</a>) and recalled a fall dish of ricotta, butternut and sage on toasted baguette bread that I came across in a magazine. My how some of those flavors translate well to a pot of quinoa (minus the ricotta this time of course, but I would certainly give it a go under different circumstances). <br />
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<b>Roasted Butternut and Sage Quinoa </b><br />
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1 large Butternut squash<b> </b><br />
2 sprigs of thyme<br />
5 fresh sage leaves <br />
1 cup quinoa<br />
2 cups water<br />
3 tbsp olive oil<br />
1 tsp salt, divided<br />
1/2 tsp pepper, divided<br />
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.<br />
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Peel the butternut squash and wash hands well. Cut and remove the seeds and then cube the flesh. Spread cubes over a baking tray lined with a silpat mat. Drizzle with 2 tbsp olive oil and sprinkle with 1/2 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp pepper. Roast for 20-40 minutes, until tender - turning once.<br />
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Meanwhile, add quinoa and 2 cups of water to a pot and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 20 minutes or until the water has been absorbed. Fluff with a fork and season with remaining olive oil, salt and pepper.<br />
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Chop the sage and remove the thyme leaves from the stem. Stir into the quinoa along with the roasted butternut squash and additional olive oil.<br />
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Serve warm.<br />
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P.S. This week I made apple sauce - a great warm snack for chilly fall days. Simply place firm apples in a pot, add a few inches of water and simmer for 20 minutes. Process the apples and some liquid in a food mill. Add cinnamon and serve warm.<br />
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