Pre Winter Break In The Afternoon

2:30 PM - I haven't been a super big fan of the studio albums of Jethro Tull since Heavy Horses (1978) and I'm told that's more than a few years ago. And yet. They were something different that I liked long before I started purposely liking things that were different.

The song linked below is one I think I just heard for the first time. It reminds me a lot of Another Harry's Bar. The last concert I saw, shortly before my mom passed away, was Ian Anderson (Tull's lead singer). Long may he run.

In five I have a vaad, a meeting with a class that I do (for two different classes every other week). I've taught five classes so far. And after the vaad I have one more Chumash class. And then - winter break.

4:05 PM - The vaad went really nicely. This is a group of kids who really enjoy learning. I mentioned a chiastic structure I did in my class and one girl wanted to write it down just like that. I told them how the first half of Lech Lechah is about past and the second half about building on that to the future. And that reminded me of the explanation I learned for why vayehi is sad and vehayah is happy (the vav hamehapechet in each case, respectively, changed future tense to past and past to future. When we build on our past it's happy, when we cut off our future it's sad).

It's funny (not ha-ha) that soon, probably the next time I write here, my reality/realm will have shifted due to two words - winter break.