Today I wasn't feeling all that great so even though it was Purim I didn't go anywhere. I basically just stayed put and tidied my room which really really need it. Its not perfect but its so much better than it was before I started.
I also worked on a sermon for Passover, its not perfect yet but I think that its going to be a good one. I also did a few odd jobs that need doing.
By the afternoon I was feeling rather better so I headed out to buy a wig and some groceries. Its funny when the non-Jewish person in the shop wishes you Happy Purim when you buy a wig.
I then went and got the groceries before going and working in a coffee shop. Sadly I doubled up on some groceries which Emily got.
I then had a skype chat with Mum and Dad.
Sunday, 24 February 2013
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Back Home but busy
I am briefly home in Newcastle-under-Lyme although this does not mean I am not working, I have brought a bunch of work to do with me. I have been working very hard in order to try and clear some space but I am still very busy working on sermons, translations, keeping up to date with reading for class, trying to organise the rota for student services. So much the same as normal really. I am enjoying many of my courses.
Especially liturgy and Piyyutim classes. But I am looking forward to the brake in classes we will get soon when there is a gap in classes for JCM I am not going this year so I will have a real break and a let up in pressure that will allow me to really get ahead with work.
As has been the case up until now academically things are going smoothly. More than smoothly really. I am also getting to grips with the more practical aspects of the course as well.
I should probably go and get on with readings, sermons and all the other things I have brought with me.
Especially liturgy and Piyyutim classes. But I am looking forward to the brake in classes we will get soon when there is a gap in classes for JCM I am not going this year so I will have a real break and a let up in pressure that will allow me to really get ahead with work.
As has been the case up until now academically things are going smoothly. More than smoothly really. I am also getting to grips with the more practical aspects of the course as well.
I should probably go and get on with readings, sermons and all the other things I have brought with me.
Monday, 11 February 2013
General stuff of life
The General stuff of life seems to have been taking up a lot of time lately. The boiler in our flat broke, so no hot water and no heating. It then of course decided to get really cold so that was fun. Then part of our fence fell down. And finally the washing machine broke.
Washing machine man came and mended it, and then boiler man came. The person who is going to mend the fence is going to come on Wednesday...but then boiler was working on overdrive, so had to be toned down a little and washing machine broke again!!!
But I now know how to get it restarted so thats okay.
It snowed yesterday so the walk to school was slippy it also meant that there were less people there than normal. I am busy and a little stressed, well thats normally really and I am already looking forward to gaps in the schedule when things will be a little easier.
However, academically things are still going smoothly so all in all things are okay.
Washing machine man came and mended it, and then boiler man came. The person who is going to mend the fence is going to come on Wednesday...but then boiler was working on overdrive, so had to be toned down a little and washing machine broke again!!!
But I now know how to get it restarted so thats okay.
It snowed yesterday so the walk to school was slippy it also meant that there were less people there than normal. I am busy and a little stressed, well thats normally really and I am already looking forward to gaps in the schedule when things will be a little easier.
However, academically things are still going smoothly so all in all things are okay.
Friday, 1 February 2013
Change in favorite subjects
When I started at my course at Rabbinical school I think that my favourite subjects within Jewish studies were, more or less in order: 1) Bible, 2) Talmud, 3) Chassidute and Kabbalah I know that there are many aspects of Chassidute that are not kabbalistic and aspects of Kabbalah and mysticism which are not connected with Chassidute but they are closely enough related that I feel happy grouping them together. 4) Halakhah, 5) Musar and finally 6) Mussar (a practice of ethical living.
Academically I was also interested in philosophy (although mainly focused on ethics and Jurisprudence). But I was almost totally uninterested in either liturgy and homiletics. But now just over halfway point I am probably most interested in Liturgy and Homiletics. I am still interested in those other topics. But Liturgy and Homiletics are fast becoming passions for me. I guess there are two obvious reasons why this might be the case. Firstly they were starting from a low base of knowledge and secondly these are practical areas of concern for the trainee rabbi (and indeed the rabbi). But also I have simply found that there is more too both these subjects than I at first thought.
Shabbat Shalom
Academically I was also interested in philosophy (although mainly focused on ethics and Jurisprudence). But I was almost totally uninterested in either liturgy and homiletics. But now just over halfway point I am probably most interested in Liturgy and Homiletics. I am still interested in those other topics. But Liturgy and Homiletics are fast becoming passions for me. I guess there are two obvious reasons why this might be the case. Firstly they were starting from a low base of knowledge and secondly these are practical areas of concern for the trainee rabbi (and indeed the rabbi). But also I have simply found that there is more too both these subjects than I at first thought.
Shabbat Shalom
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