Friday, 4 March 2016

I slept very well, woke up early, and got up slowly. But I didn't go out for an early-morning walk except for the really short trip up to the bakery to buy challah.

I taught 3 units of Berlitz lessons today: 9:00-9:45 and 10:00-11:30.

After my class, I headed down to the post office in Mercaz Mor to mail a letter.

For lunch at home, I had a large salad with an added tomato, two sandwiches with mini veggie burgers, and a Moroccan cookie (they're my new guilty pleasure!).

In the late afternoon, just before candle-lighting time, I took a walk over to Shakhamon on Sheshet HaYamim, then walked up the green strip there and came back home via Harim Road.

By then, it was time, so I lit candles, drank a little sweet red wine, and ate some challah to welcome the Shabbat.

In the evening, Me'ir responded to a short message I had sent him, and we talked on the phone for a while. I'm being very careful about getting reconnected to him, but I think it will basically be a good thing.

I leave you this evening with a couple of verses from Psalm 145. This psalm is also part of the Shabbat morning prayers. When I was accompanying the chorale in high school, they sang a beautiful a capella choral arrangement of these verses, in the King James translation. Here they are, both in the original Hebrew and as used in that version:

עיני-כל אליך ישברו ואתה נותן-להם את-אכלם בעתו

פותח את-ידך ומשביע לכל-חי רצון

The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their meat in due season.

Thou openest thy hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.