Hail!

[magid]

Pea-sized hail, but hail. So strange, ice in the middle of summer.

OK, the whole weather system we've been having is odd. I like thunderstorms, a lot, actually, but it's strange to have thunderstorms every day, often two or three times a day, for something like a week now. It's Boston! The weather's more variable than that! Plus it reminds me of somewhere with a defined rainy season (like Addis Ababa, where it rained every day we were there, though not every day (which was good in two ways: the thick, sticky mud had a chance to dry, and we didn't have to try to teach through the storms, which would've been fairly impossible with the corrugated metal roofs)).

I'm getting really familiar with the brachot over thunder and lightning. I like both of them ("...whose strength fills the Earth."* and "...who made the wonders of creation.").

* There's two words for strength used in the Hebrew, and I'm not nuanced enough to distinguish them in English.

Comments

[neorock.livejournal.com]

what are the prayers in hebrew? :-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

I dislike making transliterations, and haven't dealt with Hebrew script on this computer (might on the next one, though). Transliterations available at the link, along with discussion of when and which...