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December 23, 2006
Shabbat music Saturday: Shabbat menucha
Laura Wetzler sings about the day of rest.
An old Sephardic melody - you can hear the flamenco influence.
I didn't go to the kotel for Shabbat after all. It was raining. I hate rain anyway and standing outside for several hours in cold rain, even with an umbrella, even singing hallel on the last day of Hanukkah . . . . nah. I slept instead.
I had been to a nice Shabbat dinner the previous evening, beginning with a long walk through alleys and parks and narrow winding roads and overhanging trees and stoneblock apartment buildings with ironwork balconies and arched doorways and planters spilling over with flowers, occasional cars speeding by, more frequently other groups heading to Shabbat meals, passing with "good Shabbes!" and nods, finally to a spacious apartment with a table set for 20 and kids, parents, relatives, invited strangers.
And I kept falling asleep at the table. Jet lag? Running on empty throughout the conference? Emotional drain from too many people in too short a time? Worry about planning the rest of my trip? The insidious Jerusalem madness? After dinner I settled in an easy chair and fell asleep again while the others conversed. My friends woke me and we walked all the way back, raining now, me with umbrella, pleasantly tired, getting back to my little borrowed apartment at the back of an alley off Agron, across from the park. Where I slept, and woke, and slept, and finally got up about 6 PM Saturday evening. Sacking out for 18 hours is pretty shabbasdik, I think.
Judith | 12/23/06 at 11:44 PM | Categories: Eretz Yisrael
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Also, an umbrella on Shabbat at the Kotel, wouldn't make you too popular with the natives.
But yay for the rain!
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| December 25, 2006 05:07 PM
Yes ysy for the rain, in the sense that the travelers' prayers be not answered. :-)
And I don't have a hood so it would have to be an umbrella. does it count as carrying if I store it in my parka pocket? I mean, people do carry their housekeys.
Judith | December 26, 2006 07:08 AM
Carrying is not a problem in most of Jerusalem, because of the eruv. Which makes it all right to carry it in your pocket, unless you disagree with the idea of finessing that problem in the first place. I once had a rav who did.
The problem is using it - because it falls under erecting a shelter/building a house - for which, as far as I know, there is no halachic fix, besides choosing to ignore the problem. Though there might be a conservative method around it that I'm unaware of.
In any case, that's why everyone wears rain hats!
Alcibiades | December 26, 2006 06:44 PM
If I had a parka with a hood.....
Anyway, it's snowing now. It would be fun to go over there tomorrow (it's already dark now) and it wouldn't be Shabbat. It might even be sunny....
Judith Weiss | December 27, 2006 10:02 AM
