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Thursday, May 23, 2024

Modified V’aHavtah

 



You shall love the world with all your thoughts, 

with all your feelings, and with all your actions. 

Feel this teaching deep in your heart so that what you say and what you do become examples of love. 

When you lie down and when you rise up remember how special you are: 

no one can take your place in this world. 


When you go out and when you come home 

remember how special everyone else is: 

no one can take the place of anyone in this world. 

Look deeply into things so you see the good 

as well as the bad, 

and the bad as well as the good. 


Put a mezuzah on your door and on your gate to remind you to be kind and good and to remind you of all you have learned.

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Passover 2024 - April 22 and April 23, 2024

I flew to Long Beach on Sunday, April 21, so I could be with my daughter Rebekah and husband Dan for Passover, but also to be with our friend Josh’s family and be with my cousins Harold and Carolyn.  It was also wonderful to spend Passover with our friend Odette and have my daughter Annabelle and her fiance Ben and son Joel video-call in and my friend Jessica voice-call in on the second night.

(Rebekah and her boyfriend Garrett will be leaving Disney On Ice after the weekend of 4/27 and 4/28/24.  Rebekah has been on the road touring for six years and now wants to be in one place for awhile.)

Below are photos of our two amazing Passover evenings.

First night:














Rebekah made a kosher for Passover birthday cake so we could celebrate her birthday 



Josh and his family: Jordan, Michael, Rocky, and Katie





Jo Ann, Rebekah, Garrett, and Dan





Second night:






Odette, Dan, Carolyn, Harold


Odette and Jo Ann




Odette, Carolyn, Harold, Jo Ann, Dan, Rebekah, and Garrett


Notice Annabelle and Joel on the iPad behind Jo Ann



We lit Yahrzeit candles in memory of Josh’s wife Gina and also for my dad, Dan’s mom, Jessica’s parents, Harold’s parents, and Odette’s mother’s dog.




This is the Haggadah we used: