Rosh Hashannah--Getting Closer!

One week left.  There's so much left to do, invite guests, plan meals...  but that's not the most important.

We;re really supposed to be preparing our souls, mulling over our deeds, doing úùåáä tshuva, repent.  But I have a problem with the word, term, idiom.  What is it ìçæåø áúùåáä lachzor b'tshuva, return to the return?  It doesn't make much sense to me either.

The word úùåáä has another meaning,   Like in ùàìä-úùåáä question-answer.  Maybe we're supposed to return to the old answers and not think our generation is smarter than the previous ones.  We should never say:

"That may have been OK for my grandmother, but not for me."

Our Torah is timeless.

Shannah Tovah--Gmar Chatima Tovah

Isn't Blogging Enough?

My blogging began over four years ago, when I discovered that there was an easy way to post my writing on the internet. A couple of years before that, I had begun sending out "musings" to various friends via email. They were my reactions to our deteriorating security situation and the rampant Arab terrorism, which was filling our small Shiloh Cemetery with innocent young children.
If I want my message to get across, I'm going to have to use every road and vehicle.

Over the years I've gotten used to blogging. It's easy, but, of late, I've begun to realize that not only has technology moved onwards, but many of those looking for real news via the internet find blogs staid and boring. They want quicker more interactive relationships.

For what feels like a long time, but is probably less than a year, I've declined all "be my friend on--" offers:

"I can't deal with more passwords, codes, sign-ins. Isn't blogging enough?"

Last night I attended Tachl!s 2Point Oh! I listened. Maybe I didn't understand everything. Maybe I couldn't relate to some of the mentality, but I did get the message. If I want my message to get across, I'm going to have to use every road and vehicle. So, that means that I'll have to facebook, twitter and whatever comes next. And to communicate with those who f2f, let's meet for a cup of coffee or glass of carrot juice.

Lots To Read In The Jewish Blogsphere, JBlogs

There's a lot more to jblogging than you see on Arutz 7 and other Jewish or Israeli newspapers.  Blogging is the international cyber-Hyde Park, where everyone with internet access has a forum. 

Besides the obvious crackpots, there are some very serious and intelligent writers.  We get together for "carnivals," which are like floating internet magazines.  Various bloggers take turns "hosting" editions.  The main and most veteran jblog carnival is Havel Havelim.  It's a weekly carnival and I hosted this week's edition.  In it I also blog about the other jblog carnivals and introduce a few dozen, quite a few dozen, blog posts from Jewish Bloggers all over the world.

Enough with the introduction:

Click here for Havel Havelim!!