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We finally had a dry and unscheduled weekend to pack away the Succah. Perhaps we had a negative leap year and they skipped a month?? Cranberry sufganiyot anyone??
Gadol, hate to break it to you but it’s the same 60 +/- days from the conclusion of Simchas Torah to Channukah regardless of how early Channukah comes. I understand it’s tongue in cheek, but you won’t have a sukkah surviving too long if you leave it out in the elements for 2 months.
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Time is flying by
Brain processes less video frames per second with age, so the time literally goes faster with time if you count in frames. This is not bad. I think this means that an experienced person does not need to look at the table 60 times per second to see that it is still there. Like you, I know that my sukkah is in the same place it was 2 months ago, I don’t need to look..
What can we learn from Birthday’s? Why did Hashem invent a day to celebrate a persons birth? There’s nothing wrong or goyish with having a birthday cake or party. The lesson we can learn is, that last year on this day i was 39, today i became 40. A complete year has just gone by. What have i accomplished during this time? Was my time spent wisely? (Wisely does not need to mean Learning & Davening etc.., going shopping & spending family quality time is also considered time spent wisely & actually very important to raise a happy & healthy family) Can I actually face Hashem now & say truthfully that I spent this past year wisely? Maybe we can learn that every minute counts & is so precious & now another full year is gone forever.
Hashem didn’t ‘invent a a day to celebrate a persons birthday’. We happen to celebrate it to a degree, but the only time we are meant to celebrate a birthday is when your Bar Mitzvah (or bas mitzvah for a girl, but that’s a whole other discussion if you should celebrate it).
Sam Klein good approach!
Rabbi miller’s pamphlet this week has a question from a tape about celebrating birthdays (in relation to kids birthdays) and he says there’s no importance to it but he’ll stop short from saying you shouldn’t make one
GH > you’ve also found good excuses over the past 7 weeks to avoid dismantling
you are too neurotic, you need an excuse to DO something. You don’t need an excuse not to do something. To yourself, I mean, not to your spouse of course. I have simply scheduled dismantling the sukkah after taking air conditioning off. After 6 months, you are on a winning side, as every day is now CLOSER to sukkos.
> nothwithstanding cognitive decline, you can still remember whether it is by the front door,
Hey, I did not claim decline, I never remembered anything, but it is hard to forget something you bump into daily. Maybe your yard is too large.
This is the only lesson i realized that takes us a life time to learn (we never learn it ) although it gets revealed to us so many times each year. HOW LIFE GOES BY IN AN INSTANT. One second, father just made הבדלה from שבת & Mother is already lighting the candles, something is wrong here something has to be wrong 6 days just flew by .this is how every year goes by we go from חנוכה & Before you know it its time to order משלוח מנות for פורים Then its exactly 30 days to פסח we then count exactly 7 weeks until שבועות then its exactly 4 weeks until שבעה עשר בתמוז then comes the 3 weeks & then 3 weeks of summer & Before you know it its time to blow the שופר already YES A YEAR JUST FLEW BY & IS GONE FOREVER.
ummm………..
it’s not chanuka already.Life is fleeting as described in the Unesaneh Takef.
I had a rebbe in high school who once said that five years for him went by faster than one year did for us teenagers. At the time I thought he was exaggerating but now that I’m older than that rebbe was at that time, I understand his sentiment.
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