It’s about two weeks before Pesach and Rabbis across the country are emailing their shul members with the chometz sales forms. I’m not going to poke fun at the whole business of “selling” chometz, since we’ve pretty much accepted this…
Tag: minyan
Going to shul in the morning sucks
I’m sitting in shul slumped in my chair. I look like a drunk with a bad hangover. By this juncture, I’m wondering what on earth possessed me to get out of bed this morning. Sure, my guilty conscience, ahem the yetzer tov…
Are you just a Jew on shabbos?
For most people, morning minyan is a way of life. Either they find the virtue of starting their day with connection to God, their families force them to go or they feel driven to complete a fledgling minyan. I myself…
Tenth Man Union calls for a strike
The Tenth Man Union is calling is going on strike after multiple successful minyanim have been ongoing just as one of the union members arrived. The Tenth Man Union is a large group of folks from around world who are…
I went to my first Egalitarian minyan and it was interesting
I think the last time I put on something that I would have called shabbos shorts was in the mid 1980’s, you know, those dark shorts that covered your knees that you wore to shabbos parties that gave out pekalechs…