My 40th birthday was last week on Yom Kippur. It was actually probably the best Yom Kippur I have ever had. The fast was easy and I felt great the whole day. I guess attitude is everything. Plus I had the opportunity to read several passages from the prayer book that reiterated the idea of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘birthday’
Birthday Mitzvah received
Posted in Glossary of Terms, friends mitzvahs, mitzvahs, tagged Add new tag, birthday, kippah, Yom Kippur on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Happy New Year
Posted in Glossary of Terms, friends mitzvahs, mitzvahs, tagged birthday, Yom Kippur on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s October. I love October because the leaves are changing (atleast when I grew up on the East coast they did) and it’s my birthday month. This year I will be turning 40. I am excited and thrilled to have reached this milestone. Ironically, my birthday falls on an auspicious day in the Jewish calendar [...]
A one year anniversary and a seventh birthday
Posted in sources/quotes, tagged birthday, December 1st on December 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, was December 1st the one year anniversary from my father’s death and my son Solomon’s seventh birthday. I feel a bit odd in stating that it wasn’t a particularly sad day for me. When my father first died and I told a friend that it had happened on my son’s birthday she told me [...]