The morning started off well, with (a) scrambled eggs and French toast for breakfast, followed immediately by (b) a real and beautiful nap. Take that, Baby Spiderman! I slept while you were awake! Haha! (It's OK, I still love you, and I'm super-glad that you like daycare so much.)
I then finished my Hebrew copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns. My review: meh. There are a few chapters that are very good, but as a whole, it was slow. Slow and slightly preachy.
As you may recall, Israel switched to Daylight Savings Time last Thursday night. Today, I finally changed the time on my watch. That's useful.
Tonight's excitement was that I got to go to the Rabbi's Pesach speech to the Ulpan group at 8:30pm, and I got to stay for the whole time. Thanks, Baby Spiderman. I'm sorry I teased you earlier about napping.
I'd say the most surprising thing I learned is that "בזרוע נטויה" ("with an outstretched arm") is referring to the upper arm. I have no idea why I always pictured the forearm with that phrase, but a forearm is an amah. The zroah is the upper arm.
The rabbi spoke a little about the haggadah, then got down to brass tacks: 1 seder or 2, 7 days or 8, etc etc. It's nice and easy for us: we are Israelis living in Israel. We have one seder and 7 days of Pesach. We knew this already, but there are plenty of people in the ulpan whose Pesach will be very, very confusing. Israelis in France, Americans in Israel, Undecideds somewhere... He also reminded us that we need to sell our chametz. Yeah, I knew that, too. We need to sell all of our chametz: that which we own in Israel and that which we own in America. Whoa. We do indeed have chametz in our storage unit in America. I totally forgot about it. We'll be in touch with our shul there about selling it. Thanks, Rabbi!
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