Strange evening
Sep. 20th, 2002 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI was tired yesterday, and I think that needing to take one of those little purple anti-itch pills made me more tired, plus a bit dopey. It was really noticeable because I found myself unable even to make a list of what I needed to do before the holiday t onight. Usually I can manage that, even if all the stuff on the list doesn't end up getting done.
Still, I managed to get some things accomplished. I met Queue in Brookline, and we walked around the Brookline farmer's m arket, where I succumbed, yet again, to heirloom tomatoes. I now have yellow and orange ones waiting to become tomato salad and/or and/or roasted tomatoes and/or dried tomatoes (to be turned into something else, perhaps a tomato-barley-scallion sort of salad).
Then down the street to the Israel Bookstore to get a lulav and etrog [1], also a new (Jewish) calendar (now I get to transfer over stuff. happy happy joy joy) for 5763 (and beginning 5764, ie a 16-month calendar from now until the end of 2004).).
Since I had no list, I seemed not to be able to focus on what might be useful at the kosher market, so got nothing. Quick stop for bobke at the bakery across the street, though.
At home, Queue helped me rearrange the s'chach (roof of the sukkah), with the usual, unfortunately apparently obligatory getting-of-something-in-the-eye. Feh. (Thanks to Queue, though; it really is easier with two people.)
Still, now I have a lulav and etrog, and a sukkah. Couldn't face doing any cooking until this morning, though. I was just too zonked and unfocused. I'm really hoping i t's mostly a side-effect of these pills....
[1] "Etrog" is usually translated "citron," which seems useless, since no one seems to know what that is if they don't already know "etrog." It is a citrus fruit that smells wonderful. The skin is yellow (when ripe) or green, and bumpy. Some are rather round, some are more of a teardrop, some have a sort of 'waist' in the middle. The pith is incredibly thick, and it is full of seeds), and what fruit pulp there is is incredibly sour.
"Lulav" technically refers to a palm (branch), but can also mean a palm branch with 2 willow branches on one side and 3 myrtle branches on the other (or 3 willow and 2 myrtle; I have to check that). For the holiday of Sukkot [2], one of the customs of the holiday is to take all four species and wave them in the six directions. Yes, it is rather odd. No, there's no really good reason why it's commanded (there are lots of mystical explanations, though). Sukkot has a couple of really odd ones, at least to me...
[2] Sukkot is one of the three "pilgimage" festivals: in the time of the Temple, people brought offerings there. As with the other major festivals (Passover and Shavuot), there are (at least) two aspects of the holiday. It is a harvest festival, celebrating the year's produce. It also comemmorates the wandering in the desert for 40 years: the sukkot (booths) people build to eat (and sometimes sleep) in are temporary by design, just as the wanderers' tents were.
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Still, I managed to get some things accomplished. I met Queue in Brookline, and we walked around the Brookline farmer's m arket, where I succumbed, yet again, to heirloom tomatoes. I now have yellow and orange ones waiting to become tomato salad and/or and/or roasted tomatoes and/or dried tomatoes (to be turned into something else, perhaps a tomato-barley-scallion sort of salad).
Then down the street to the Israel Bookstore to get a lulav and etrog [1], also a new (Jewish) calendar (now I get to transfer over stuff. happy happy joy joy) for 5763 (and beginning 5764, ie a 16-month calendar from now until the end of 2004).).
Since I had no list, I seemed not to be able to focus on what might be useful at the kosher market, so got nothing. Quick stop for bobke at the bakery across the street, though.
At home, Queue helped me rearrange the s'chach (roof of the sukkah), with the usual, unfortunately apparently obligatory getting-of-something-in-the-eye. Feh. (Thanks to Queue, though; it really is easier with two people.)
Still, now I have a lulav and etrog, and a sukkah. Couldn't face doing any cooking until this morning, though. I was just too zonked and unfocused. I'm really hoping i t's mostly a side-effect of these pills....
[1] "Etrog" is usually translated "citron," which seems useless, since no one seems to know what that is if they don't already know "etrog." It is a citrus fruit that smells wonderful. The skin is yellow (when ripe) or green, and bumpy. Some are rather round, some are more of a teardrop, some have a sort of 'waist' in the middle. The pith is incredibly thick, and it is full of seeds), and what fruit pulp there is is incredibly sour.
"Lulav" technically refers to a palm (branch), but can also mean a palm branch with 2 willow branches on one side and 3 myrtle branches on the other (or 3 willow and 2 myrtle; I have to check that). For the holiday of Sukkot [2], one of the customs of the holiday is to take all four species and wave them in the six directions. Yes, it is rather odd. No, there's no really good reason why it's commanded (there are lots of mystical explanations, though). Sukkot has a couple of really odd ones, at least to me...
[2] Sukkot is one of the three "pilgimage" festivals: in the time of the Temple, people brought offerings there. As with the other major festivals (Passover and Shavuot), there are (at least) two aspects of the holiday. It is a harvest festival, celebrating the year's produce. It also comemmorates the wandering in the desert for 40 years: the sukkot (booths) people build to eat (and sometimes sleep) in are temporary by design, just as the wanderers' tents were.
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