bbb Malka's Musings

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Food For Thought

This is what man is all about; this is the purpose of his creation and of the creation of all the worlds, supernal and lowly - to make for G-d a dwelling in the physical world

— Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi

posted by Malka at 2/28/2006 02:00:00 PM 1 comments

Friday, January 27, 2006

Modest Sunbathers

posted by Malka at 1/27/2006 04:19:00 PM 1 comments

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Happy Birthday to me...

Another year has come and gone... I've found that as I get older, I don't really care so much for birthdays anymore.. what's the big deal? I have no problem with getting older

posted by Malka at 1/24/2006 10:42:00 AM 6 comments

One To Watch...

Came across this new blog!

posted by Malka at 1/24/2006 10:41:00 AM 0 comments

Monday, January 16, 2006

Please Say Tehillim ...

Thank you to everyone who took the time to include these ladies in their prayers. The surgery has been temporarily postponed due to complications. A new donor must be found.
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For Antonietta bas Filomena who will undergo a liver transplant on January 23 and also for Joanna bas Antonietta who will be giving her Ima the much needed liver.

posted by Malka at 1/16/2006 05:16:00 PM 0 comments

It's been a while..

I have all but abandonned blogging. I still read the odd blog but for the past while now my interest has waned. The whole Yaakov drama had me pretty swept up and this was a good outlet for me to vent. That being said, life is back to normal, well, sort of. I am for sure not the same woman as I was before Yaakov. There have been so many changes in my life in the past year. I am still studying to convert though I admit to sometimes having second thoughts. I guess I'm just afraid. I sometimes wonder if this fear that I have is a sign that my commitment to yiddishkeit isn't as true or as strong as I and countless others, including Yaakov and my rabbi, thought it to be. I look at my friends and colleagues who are getting married, buying houses, starting families and I start to think that this won't happen to me, that I'll end up being a converted spinster and that scares the crap out of me even more. Or worse still, I'll fall head over heels for someone completely wrong for me and, quite obviously not Jewish. Argh! I wish there were a simple solution. Things were easier when Yaakov was around - at least I had a sounding board of sorts... I could go to him and tell him about what I was learning, ask questions in the middle of the night when learning about Family Purity just freaked me out.. but now he isn't there to guide me or answer my questions.. There is no one but me.. Me and my rabbi whom I haven't contacted in a while. Even Hannah is no longer in my life - we had a falling out just before Yom Kippur and we are no longer on speaking terms. This makes me sad but the situation can't be changed or made better. So here I am, turning in circles or so it seems.

posted by Malka at 1/16/2006 12:04:00 PM 1 comments

Ten Thoughts to Ponder for the New Year...

Number 10. Life is sexually transmitted.


Number 9. Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Number 8. Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.


Number 7. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.


Number 6. Some people are like a Slinky.....not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.


Number 5. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.


Number 4. All of us could take a lesson from the weather it pays no attention to criticism.


Number 3. Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents?


Number 2. In the 60s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now The world is weird and People take Prozac to make it normal.

AND THE NUMBER 1 THOUGHT FOR 2006:
We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in North America but we haven't got a clue as to where thousands of Illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of immigration.

posted by Malka at 1/16/2006 12:02:00 PM 0 comments

Monday, November 07, 2005

It is a tree of life for those who grasp it, and its supporters are happy.
Its ways are pleasant and its paths are peaceful.
Bring us back, Lord, to You, and we will return;
renew our days as of old.
(Proverbs 3:18, Lamentations 5:21)

posted by Malka at 11/07/2005 05:12:00 PM 10 comments