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[pennywhistle]

L'Shanah Tovah!! ^_^

My mom baked two loaves of Challah this morning, so the house smells wonderful. I'm going to have to miss dinner tonight for a wedding :-( It's for an old friend that I've really lost touch with. We were very good friends from about when I was 16 to when I was 22. After that we lost touch, but he still invited me to his wedding, and I RSVP'd, so I've got to go.

I didn't go to services this morning, I usually only go to Yom Kippour services.

I hope all my Jewish friends have a very sweet New Year ^_^

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[nicci.livejournal.com]

is this a friend i know? who's getting married?

... and.. i am still miffed that i never got invited to any .. well i can't spell it, but the thing my jewish buddies do at age 13 =) botmizvah? something like that => is that close?

anyway, i know you and i weren't close enough at that time for the invite.. but darn it. i would have gotten to go to Tracy's for sure, if not for that thing where she moved away for five years =>.

lauren taught me to play dradle years ago. i thought it was cool. christians are so boring.

i discovered baklava in a kosher deli in paris, so i have warm and fuzzy feelings. *wink*

silly mood today. anyway. happy holidays. and how cool does Challah sound anyway? i love these words. =) so pretty.

[malanai.livejournal.com]

It's one of my old Tristate Online friends, I don't think you ever met him.

It's Bat Mitzvah for a girl, and Bar Mitzvah for a boy ^_^

Mmmm, my mom's Challah was SOOOOO good ^_^

[suraimu.livejournal.com]

Doesn't matter if you can spell it or not, since it's not really a straight translation - it's just an approximation of how it sounds. That's why you see "Happy Hannukah!", "Happy Hannuka!", "Happy Chanuka!" et al. So go nuts. :D

[teaandbitchery.livejournal.com]

And all of us non-Jewish friends get squat? :)

[malanai.livejournal.com]

I'll wish you a happy New Year when it's the Christian New Year ;-p

[winterswitchery.livejournal.com]

What about us pagans? ^~

[malanai.livejournal.com]

I'll wish YOU a happy new year on Samhain. There! Is everyone happy now?! Geez, people!!! ;-p

[teaandbitchery.livejournal.com]

I'm not Christian. :) Granted, I grew up Christian, but, I don't believe in it anymore and besides, they don't have a specific new year celebration- they do it when the calendar changes.

[malanai.livejournal.com]

That's what I meant. The normal calendar is considered the "christian calendar."

[teaandbitchery.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, it's an adaptation of the Julian calendar first developed by Julias Ceasar...hence things like "July" and "August" (Julias and Augustus) but whatever. It was modified by a monk- Brother Ummphfhumpha (Gregory, actually, hence the "Gregorian Calendar").

Christians really have no special tie to the First of January, as I would think most other religions have some sort of reason for picking the date they do.

[mavra-chang.livejournal.com]

Brother Ummphfhumpha

*Cracks up*

[maria-miles.livejournal.com]

Hope that you had a great day. Happy New Year.

[malanai.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^_^

[doss.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you went. It gave us a good chance to talk.