Posted on 09/13/2012 12:03:13 PM PDT by jerusalemjudy
1. Turn on the radio any time in the weeks between the date school starts and Yom Kippur, and it’s a sure bet that on any station you’ll hear a version of Adon Haselichot (Master of forgiveness), a traditional prayer of repentance with a particularly catchy Sephardi melody, You can even download it as a ringtone…
2. Nightly selichot tours take place in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, the Bukharan Quarter, Nachlat Shiva and Nachlaot. Swarms of Israelis who generally spend as little time as possible in any synagogue, suddenly get nostalgic about the sights and sounds of other faithful Jews who crowd into the quaint synagogues of these old Jerusalem neighborhoods to butter up God before the High Holydays in late-night prayers.
3. Pomegranates are everywhere—real ones weighing down branches on trees all over town and on sale in the Machane Yehuda shuk; symbolic ones for sale as honey dishes and embossed on cards.
4. Those notes that pile up in the cracks in the Kotel—they’re cleaned out twice a year: before Passover and before Rosh Hashanah. They’re not thrown away but buried in the geniza along with remnants of holy books.
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A sure sign of the approaching holidays are the little sukkuhs on all the balconies of the high rise apartment buildings. (At least that is how it was back in the 80’s!) L’shanah Tovah!
Back in the 50’s it used to be when the new Cadillac’s came out.
I thought you could tell because my wife and my mother are having a passive-aggresive fight over something.
LOL!
You know it because you cannot get an appointment to meet ANYONE in the next two weeks!
Gee ... then every week must be Rosh Hassanah in my house. And we're Catholics!
L'shana Tovah!
A friend once mentioned the practice of gathering the aunts and grandmothers together for the “Recitation of Successful Sons”.
“Did you know he was a doctor?”
“Mine is a doctor AND a dentist”
“Mine is doctor and a lawyer. If you don’t pay, he sues”.
I’m serious.
They are having a fight over what are effectively apple pie recipes.
I wasted two hours of my life over this.
Winner!
Send the end products to me...I’ll be glad to be a neutral apple pie judge! LOL
During the times like you’ve described, I find basements particularly attractive and handy—especially when the women folk go at it. LOL
11. The Palestinians are trying to blow [stuff] up. Even more so than usual.
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