Eitan Update 4.8, Kislev 5768/December 2007

[Eitan Levy]

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Eitan Update Vol. 4, #8 Ì Kislev 5768/December 2007

“Plans, Winter, Chanukkah”

 

Life never ceases to be interesting.  It’s been a long time since my last real update, so I will not attempt to catch you up on all the day-to-day goings on in my life.  for that you can read my blog at http://eitanhalevy.livejournal.com/.  This update is just to give the lowdown on what’s going on in my life in broad strokes.

 

It’s a time of change.  What I want to be doing for the next few years has pretty much crystallized in my mind, in that I want to stay at the yeshivah and get smichah (rabbinic ordination), while at the same time taking a tour-guiding course and getting a guiding license.  I’m in a process of checking out guiding courses and figuring out how that all could work, but I feel confident in the goal, and now all that waits to be solved is the details.

 

The other important thing going on in my life is dating.  I’ve been seeing someone for about two months now, and all seems to be headed in the right direction.  Her name is Daniella, and her family lives in Rechovot (along the coast, South of Tel Aviv), while she is studying for a Bachelors of Education (in Theatre) at a college in Jerusalem.  More information will be forthcoming if and when, G!d willing, it seems prudent.

 

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It’s finally starting to feel like Winter.  The days are short and we’ve had colder weather and a few good—but mild—rain storms.  We’ve had a few unseasonable warm spells, the latest of which just passed, and hopefully now Winter will strike with a vengeance, filling all the aquifers and dams and the Kinneret (‘Sea of Galilee’) with life giving water, and making all the flora green and happy. 

 

Tomorrow evening is the beginning of Chanukkah.  Eight days of Hallel (musical praise of the creator through singing of various Psalms during the morning prayers), eight days of latkes and sufganiyot, of lighting the menorah and recalling the miracle that was done for the Jewish people so long ago, “in those days at this time;” eight days of celebrating the self-sacrifice of the few and the brave for the comfort and holiness of the many; eight days of celebrating the death of apathy which brought about a rebirth of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel and the rejection of foreign dominion and foreign gods. 

 

Chag sameach (a happy holiday).

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B’ahavah (w/love),

-Eitan