All This And Haiku Too
I am teaching in twenty minutes and am allowing myself ten to breathe out and blog.
On Monday night a student texted me to ask if we could learn on Tuesday in memory of his grandfather, Rabbi Phillip S. Krohn. We learned two consecutive, related miishnayot: one tells us that this world is a preparation place for the next world, the following mishnah tells us that in different ways each world is better than the other.
A few minutes ago a stressed student told me that following our talk on Monday her teacher agreed to make an accommodation for her as long as I email the teacher that I feel it's the right move. Good news. Another student proudly told me that following our talk yesterday he has started to wear tzitzit. The bad news is that he finds them itchy.
Someone came in a moment or two ago to vent about not being able to find her wallet. I know first hand the pain of having lost something. She's looked in all the obvious places and is understandably upset.
One of the maintenance men, a lovely fellow named Jocelyn, just peeked into my new office and we had a nice chat. His soldier son is presently in Colorado and he seems a bit less worried about his son than at other points of these past years when he was on the front lines in dangerous war zones.
Don't tell the others
I'm happy to go to work
Keep it between us
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 10:30 AM
2 Comments:
With re. to the itchy tzitzis: I assume he's wearing cotton not wool; if not, he should switch to cotton. If that's itchy, he might want to try Neatzit, which is tzitzis in the form of an undershirt. It's comfortable, but pricey, especially since he'll need a few pairs.
it's mesh, and he does not want to wear a t-shirt in any form. i've suggested cotton tzitit. hopefully he'll get used to it.
i recall a friend of mine's wife saying when she was first married that her hair covering was so uncomfortable that she felt like there were mice crawling around her head. she doesn't feel that way anymore.
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