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April 20, 2006
Shavuot countdown: Day 8 of counting the Omer
Pesach is over, but the omer counting continues for another 6 weeks. We have left the week of Chesed and now enter the week of Gevurah. (More on counting the omer here.) Rabbi Simon Jacobson's meditation for this day of the Omer:
Chesed of Gevurah: Lovingkindness in Discipline. The underlying intention and motive in discipline is love. Why do we measure our behavior, why do we establish standards and expect people to live up to them - only because of love. Chesed of gevurah is the love in discipline; it is the recognition that your personal discipline and the discipline you expect of others is only an expression of love. It is the understanding that we have no right to judge others; we have a right only to love them and that includes wanting them to be their best. Ask yourself: when I judge and criticize another is it in any way tinged with any of my own contempt and irritation? Is there any hidden satisfaction in his failure? Or is it only out of love for the other?Exercise for the day: Before you criticize someone today, think twice: Is it out of concern and love?
My kashrut is almost non-existant, so I ate rice for lunch today, forgetting the holiday wasn't over quite yet. (Well, that would be allowable under Sephardic minhag.) I'm not a big bread or pasta eater anyway, so no hardship forswearing it. But all week I did indulge in my favorite Pesach comfort food, which is matzah spread with Gold's horseradish. The first taste of that at the first seder is the start of the hag as far as my body is concerned. But for the entire week I ate only half of one box. Will the other box keep till next year?
Judith | 04/20/06 at 10:40 PM | Categories: - Chagim
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Well, assuming you won't eat anymore matzah this year, if it were me I'd show some chesed to the pigeons in the closest city park. It's at most $3 a box, I'd refresh the stocks next year if I were you.
Me? I have 3 more pounds to get through, and I'm just starting to like it with whipped cream cheese on it.
On the other hand, what I'll miss the least is cake made from potato flour. *That stuff* is the real bread of affliction. IMHO.
Jack | April 21, 2006 01:24 AM
Matzah and horseradish? Going to have to try that seeing as how this region is the horseradish capitol of the world and all. :-)
Christopher Johnson | April 22, 2006 02:59 PM
