Friday, 9 October 2015

I got up very early this morning and so had no trouble getting my walk in. In fact, I went to the outdoor gym and did a little upper body working out.

My morning got a little shuffled because I had an appointment with the psychiatrist at 8:00. So, I ate breakfast earlier, before going done to recycle cardboard and buy challah. I was late getting out of the psychiatrist's office, so I had to call and cancel my 9:00-9:45 lesson. Thus, I ended up teaching only 4 units instead of 5: 10:00-11:30 and 11:30-1:00.

For lunch, I had my usual at Il Pentolino.

In the evening, I lit candles, drank a bit of sweet red wine, and ate a little challah to welcome Shabbat.

In honor of the new cycle of Torah reading that begin this week, I share here the first 2 verses of the Torah (and of the Bible, too, in fact), together with my translation:

בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ

והארץ היתה תהו ובהו וחשך על-פני תהום

ורוח אלהים מרחפת על-פני המים

In the beginning God created the sky and the earth

And the earth was chaos, darkness on the face of the abyss

And the wind of God hovering on the face of the water