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August 29, 2006
Ellul 5: Hin’ni muchana u-m’zumenet
Teshuva contemplations every day until Yom Kippur here. You can also find the link on the sidebar under "Yamim Noraim." Rabbi Amy Scheinerman's guide to teshuvah focuses this week on Responsibility.
Alain Chekroun sings Psalm 121.
Appropriate for this season, at Ritual Well you can find a kavannah and brocha for taking on new mitzvot.
Last year I gave up shellfish on the 17th of Tammuz. (I find myself missing my faves - oysters and calimari, and eel for sushi - less than I thought I would. I have a rather abstract memory of how good they taste, but no cravings. If I had to give up chocolate, well, that would be another story.)
This year I decided to pay attention to separating meat and milk in my cooking and eating, preparatory to eventually kashering my kitchen.
A friend is bugging me to just do it - the Chabad people will even come in and kasher my kitchen for me. But that is too much of a shock to the system, until I am mentally prepared.
Adjusting recipes is not the problem. As Naomi says, as far as kashrut goes, this is the best time in history to be Jewish. And like her, I don't know when I have ever exactly followed a recipe. (I have been using tofu for some time to cream soups, it makes them lighter and more refreshing, especially cold soups.)
But I am afraid I would mess up my kitchen by forgetting something, and have to kasher it all over again. I would rather first get in the habit of not eating dairy and meat together. While I use up all the non-kosher meat in the freezer. . . .
Judith | 08/29/06 at 09:41 PM | Categories: - Yamim Noraim
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