Archive for October 11th, 2007

Back to normal

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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After all the craziness of movie-making, year-starting and Yomim Tovim, things are slowly starting to get back to normal. We’re having some gals over Friday night, and hopefully eating by teh it’s been a while since we’ve actually hosted guests (besides for Mommy and Moshe for R”H), and it’ll be nice to have a nice, ordinary Shabbos.

Adiel’s been doing a lot of finalizing on the editing of the DVD –it’s annoying how all these little details become so time-consuming and cumbersome. Hopefully we’ll have some good stuff to share with you all soon. We are starting to look into marketing. It’s blah that everything is soooo expensive. Anyone want to sponsor an ad for us? :) .

Today Adiel was supposed to meet with the editor in East Meadow but it was POURING rain, and for those of you who aren’t in the 5-Towns, Far Rockaway area – the streets get flooded here! Hard to drive down. So about halfway through bumper-to-bumper traffic, he turned around and came home. Yay :) . And we had a nice chilled out night in our cozy, warm apartment with some fresh Shabbos chicken soup (and some leftover other stuff) for dinner.

Have a good Shabbos! We want to start having guests over or going away in the coming months for shabbos, so anyone that wants us or wants to come to us, let us know.

The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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This book came to me highly recommended by Ethan who was trying to motivate me in the higher ways of thinking. It’s a diary of a religious jewish woman (Gluckel is properly pronounced Glickel) from the 1600’s. When I heard about it was shocked that I’ve never heard about it before. in fact we have next to nothing from that entire period in time. But to have a DIARY from a WOMAN from the 1600’s something that greatly intruiged me.

Most people I speak to have never even heard of the book. It doesn’t have the popularity that Anne Frank’s book has since it was kept in secret by the family who finally released it in 1976. But i think more and more people should familiarize themselves with this diary.

In the course of the book, you will learn that she was from one of the wealthier familes in Hameln. Because she lived in wealth and dealt alot with business, you won’t turn one page without her mentioning money. She writes about problems with shidduchim, pogroms, life, death, and even episodes with Shabbsai Tzvi!

Read this book and get a taste of true Jewish History.

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