and rifuah shlemah. and al nitilat yadayyim. and asher yatzar. and hamotzie.

 

not the same kind tho.

Meshuggenner! *throws crabapples*

says boreh pri ha'etz before tasting them.

 

better make jelly, kinda sour.

I used the one year of Hebrew school my mother bothered sending me to as a child to catch up on my sleep.

not a gentile then?

 

couldn't tell.

 

i had 10 years. and insomnia.

My family was never particularly observant, except around the high holidays, and I stopped considering myself Jewish about nine years ago.

i grew up with a christmas tree in the house but an unfortuante series of events sent me to orthodox yeshivah. ouch.

Mostly it was learning what was expected of me on Yom Kippur that finally did it.

 

Did they make you grow a beard? Or is that just the Hassidics?

i grew up in a hassidic neighborhood in an antireligious family and went to "modern" orthodox yeshivah.

 

just too long to explain. not a happy bunch of memories.

The beard was too long to explain, gotcha. I grew up in a black suburb - wasn't another Jewish household for miles - so I can't really relate.

the hassidim treated us like worse than anyone, necause wewere jews not like them. they threw rocks at us, slashed out tires, tried to poison our dogs.

 

really not fellow travellers.

 

i'll explain it sober soem day.

Ahh, tribal territorialism, how I don't miss knowing anything about you.

okies. no matter to me.

*was speaking to the concept, not you*

was representing the concept not me

Yeah glad I didn't grow up in that kind of neighbourhood

we get what we get. i have a good neighborhood now.

You deserve it, I think if you go through crappy times in some ways makes the good better

everyone goes through crappy times. it's teaching something. not sure what yet.

As long as you have someone there for you

i have good friends.

I know and I will try to be there if you need help

would you drive the bronco?

I would be able to, though you drive on the wrong side of the road

you only have to do about 40 mph, from what i recall. i'll try to avoid needing that kind of help. if i can help it.