now we start preparing for sukkot-one of my very favorite holidays and we don't have to actually build one in this house as the deck has three wals and an uncovered section for pine boughs. In denver we had a similar situtation, we just retracted the cable shade system my husband built and lay boughs over the cables for the week. and the table and chaiirs are out there already so all I have to do is string the chili lights and decorate it with fruit. we have begun inviting people over to celebrate.
and monday the master bath renovation begins: adding a bidet new flor tiles and a heated floor. abi will LIKE that indeed, as will we. But back to havurah:
services at the havurah were very different from what we experienced in the south. inthe south things were formal and started righton time and the cantor sang kol nidre. and the al chet was in english for us and in hebrew by a choir of methodists paid to sing. and break the fast was a feast with silver platters and huge flowers arrangements.
but here in portland we did all the work ourselves and the congregation sang kol nidre all three times in a very warm room while standing. and we did the A-to-Z in hebrew (very nice) and the break the fast was a strictly vegetarian affair. no lox. waaaaaaa. BUT we knew someone: Iris ( my first friend in portland) a ten year old girl and her parents, who live up the street from us, were there so we even could actually talk to someone we knew out of the hundreds of people there.
Next year I may be a member and can help set out break the fast and maybe do the flowers. Aha !!
