All of us Lejbovitzes and Prices want to wish a HUMONGOUS Mazel Tov to our wonderful brother/uncle
Aharon Price
who became a chassan early this morning!!!
The girls name is Chani Rosengarten, from Toronto and she sounds like a sweetie. Bubby Price and Uncle Yehuda flew in for the vort and we are going to have a NY vort in the coming weeks. Stay tuned and let’s keep sharing in Simchas!!!!
Alright, we really should have updated earlier but we are both ridiculously busy. There are also pictures that we will add next time, but for now this rather short summary will have to do.
So the Kiddush was awesome, really great. Mom came in from Atlanta on Thursday, it was wonderful to see her. She treated us to Chineze in Chosen Island and was very impressed with the quality, variety and taste of food. She also went to Costco and Gourmet Glatt with Adiel, who doens’t love great shopping centers. Then Adiel cooked chicken soup (mike style ) and fish.
Friday the house was buzzing all day. Loads of neighbors and relatives were bringing over all sorts of homemade goodies. Mommy and I and Adiel and Mom were cooking up a storm. Batya and Sorah Leah came and slept nearby and so did Moshe. It was all a lot of fun, very hectic and a good thing they changed the clock!! Friday night the meal was very nice. The 7 of us ate together and shared divrei torah, songs and good conversation.
The rain came down overnight but Boruch Hashem when we woke up in the morning, the sky was crystal clear. Remember last Shabbos there was storms? Despite the weatherman’s prediction of rain, it was a gorgeous day and people walked from as far as Lawrence (Schloss and Czermack), Bayswater (Shabsy and Rochie), and the walking winner of the day — Tina walked all the way from North Woodmere - the walk is like an hour and a half. Don’t worry she stayed for lunch.
Anyway, the kiddush was loads of fun. We had a lot of family and friends come in and out, take some food, make a lchaim and wish us mazel tov. There were all the goodies plus cholent and kugel from Oldak Caterers, formely of the LES. Other East Siders who came were the Sebrows and Solomons and the Selevens came by too. The whole party lasted close to two hours and at about 1ish I went downstairs to feed the party girl who behaved very nicely. Everyone else followed soon after. There was some arranging and setting up and by the time I came out, 2 tables full of 14 people were ready to eat. The meal was fun and enjoyable. Adiel said a beautiful dvar Torah about what Shaina means to us. The Koster girls spent most of the time fighting over, and throwing to the sky, the pink balloons that Adiel had bought on Friday.
We all got a chance to nap and that was that.
Thanks to all who participated in this special event — the first of hopefully many simchas that Adiel and I are making together as a family. To those who came, who sent food, who called, or who just said Mazel Tov: It means a lot to all of us. Special shout out to Mom who flew in and stayed till Sunday and Mommy who literally toook charge. Let’s keep sharing simchas, and IYH pictures will be posted soon.
Have an awesome Purim everyone!!! 
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Last night we attended the vort of our good friend from the LES, Toby Adams and her chosson Leiby Ungar. I can’t believe she’s engaged and am so excited for her! All the best you too! We had loads of fun going to her vort, it was very ‘Leiby’dike and LES functions are always fun! Too bad SN slept through the whole thing!
Aren’t they a cute couple?!
Me and her
Picture of Shaina last week, compliments of Bubby Price (taken on her lap). We’re hoping for a smile soon!
Thanks for all of the mazel tov wishes, everyone. Shaina and I (and Adiel) are doing well, and anticipating our first Friday night (but second Shabbos) together.
These are for Mom, Amanda and all the rest who are clamoring for more pictures.
Warning: Shaina Nechama really hasn’t changed much since the day she was born.
Coming home from the hospital, to Mommy’s house. 
Waiting for her first doctor’s appointment in the pediatrician’s office
Model Pose!
Thats because I just found out that I am a Levi!
I got someone in Israel to look up some records and found an affidavit from a gabbai in some shul some 30+ years ago that my father was a Levi at the time he got married.
Here is the response from the person who did the research after I had thanked him:
Dear Adiel,
We were so happy to be able to help. Credit goes to my cousin in Far Rockaway who saw your original message and sent it on to me. Also to my mechutan who kept nudging the people to find it and who finally had the excellent idea to look for the marriage certificate. So credit goes to Klal Yisrael who usually try to help a fellow yid.There is a story I teach called "Link in the Chain" that I want to share with you.A poor young man is floundering economically and a man in shul gives him a large amount of money telling him it is not tzedaka but a loan without a due date. When he feels he can pay it back, he will. Time passes. The young man succeeds and goes to his benefactor to pay back the money. The benefactor refuses to take the money. When the young man protests, the benefactor tells the following story. "Once I was on the brink of bankruptcy and a man in shul gave me a loan without a due date. When I came to repay it, he told me that I would repay it - but not to him. One day when I would meet somebody who needed a loan and was worthy, I was to give the money to that person with the same conditions that I had - to pass it on to someone worthy who needed it. So I passed it on to you. Now it is your responsibility to pass it on to somebody else". And he did.
So what can you do for me in your happiness? Be a link in the chain and pass it on. Do a lot of mitzvos helping your fellow yid and help us bring redemption closer. That will help me and you and all Klal Yisrael.
Also, we have grandchildren serving in the Israeli army. Please add a prayer for peace for am yisrael and safety for all our soldiers to your daily prayers.
Best Wishes,
E&S G
Esther and I have been putting our noses to the grindstone these last few weeks. There has been a lot of open communication and future planning. Over the course of this time, we’ve setup an online calendar that we can update and observe our schedules and plan activites around our work hours. It’s especially helpful for me b/c i can see my week in a visual format and rocks my productivity levels.
We’ve also setup an online spreadsheet which outlines our budget and expenses vs. our income. This is REALLY helpful since we’re trying to build up some money for a downpayment on a house. Right now we’re looking to buy within 3 years and in NY. But we’re not sure if we’ll be able to afford NY. I don’t get how these young non-working yeshivish couples buy a house in Far Rockaway (which is not cheep).
At the same time, since I know we need a good credit score to make the purchase, i decided that now is the time to see what my score is so i can work on it. It turns out that I checked my score thinking it would be poor (cuz when i was single i spent lots on credit cards and missed some payments), but it turns out my score is quite nice . Woo Hoo!
It takes a lot of planning to build a bayis ne’eman - and not just $$ planning. For those of you who don’t talk to your spouse about your future, “We need to talk…”
Well it’s been 5 days since the DVDs have officially been out and available.
So far, it’s been good — not flying off the shelves and selling out but a slow and steady trickle of sales, which I guess is all you could really hope for at this point.
We’ve also attended a number of pre-Chanukah boutiques as vendors. My good friend SL Yudkowitz and her mother did a great job in Monsey, and Adiel and I went to Teaneck on Motzai Shabbos. Then, we split up - me doing Union, NJ and Adiel doing Far Rockaway (TAG). He did loads better than me, I guess Far Rockaway is just waaaayyyy cooler than New Jersey. Despite the fact that we didn’t have hordes of people just fighting to buy the dvd, we managed to sell a bunch, gave information and answered questions to a bunch more, and got oursleves noticed to hundreds who otherwise would have never heard of us.
The name of the game now is exposure - planting seeds and hoping they will grow. Even if someone does not want to buy the dvd right now, the thought is in their mind and as we do more advertising and publicity, and get more and more people excited and into it, hopefully sales will keep picking up.
That it’s everyone! Tomorrow I am going to the disc replication company to pick up the DVD which will be handed to the distributors.
In case, you’ve been out of the loop, Esther and I blew our wedding money (and more) on this business idea which we hope will be a HUGE kiddush Hashem. We recruit 6 chefs, and put together a crew to create a kosher cooking DVD. This is the first of it’s kind and we hope that if this takes off we can add more to the series.
As you’ll see from our website www.EverydayKosherCooking.com, you’ll find that this was no easy feat!
Here is just a simple breakdown of what’s included on the DVD:
6 different chefs
24 different recipes - from soups to desserts
knife skills
“what is kosher?” explained.
behind the scenes
printable recipes
chefographies
credits and sponsor information
so come and check it out!
Adiel’s family started this family thing called Geni. It’s pretty cool. You can put up your family tree with pictures and all, and then email relatives to put in their family tree. Sort of like facebook but it’s family and we’re all related. Imagine if every person in the whole world did this. We’d all be connected somehow! And it takes very short to set up which I like.
I’d recommend everyone to do this - www.geni.com
In other news, we decided to do something we wouldn’t get a chance to do for quite a while - outdoor barbecue :). It was a little chilly, so we both wore sweatshirts. But the franks and burgers were hot and delicious and it was kind of fun to eat them with a little chill going on. Next week we’re changing the clock, and winter isn’t too far away…
Over the weekend we had a nice amount of guests — just the way we like it! Friday night we had my friend Elana over from work with her cousin and roommate. It was so much fun to have girls around and shmooze girlstuff. Somehow Adiel never seems to mind, either! On Shabbos we were the guests at the Strickmans who we haven’t seen for a while, that was lots of fun as well.
Sunday morning, Adiel woke up at the crack of dawn to go and pick up a very SPECIAL friend from the airport —
Eitan!! We haven’t seen Eitan since our Sheva Brachos, what with him going and living in LA and than spending a few months in Israel. It was great that the first familiar face he saw off of the plane was his good buddy, Adiel. They went out for breakfast and shmoozed business and I went to the Source Mall. Love that place but the lines were LOONY!
Then, for dinner, we found out that our friends YGX and Eli were going to be in the 5 Towns area for a vort, so we insisted they come in and join us for dinner.
Adiel made the most delicious spaghetti and meatballs YUM! I put together a salad and warmed up some shnitzel and potato kugel from Shabbos.
Here’s all of us enjoying the dinner (Adiel took the picture).
And here’s Adiel with their adorable baby Liba. (And donkey ears from Eitan).
And Uncle Eitan with the baby. (These men are going to make great fathers!)
Banana Chocolate cake for desert that Elana had made for us for Shabbos - nothing was left after the evening!
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