Entries Tagged as ‘Tanakh’

October 12, 2008

In the Shade of the Sukkah

Today I performed a most joyous task.  I decorated my sukkah.  With blue skies, temperatures in the mid 70’s and the trees in my back yard providing a splendid backdrop of yellow and red, I spent several hours arranging the cornstalks on the s’chach (roof), placing Indian corn, pumpkins and mums in various arrangements, and [...]

November 26, 2006

When God Hates

To this day I have trouble saying “I hate” someone.  This stems from my upbringing.  I was raised in a house in which there was absolutely no swearing, and never were we allowed to say that we “hated” a person.  I remember clearly the expression on my mother’s face when the “h” word was used [...]