just realised i never sent my comment to this post! it was so incredible and meaningful meeting irl - thank you for the opportunity 🙌🏻 also, as someone living here, Poland is also, in fact, not my favorite European country I’ve ever been to lol!
I’m in Sharm el Sheikh. The last time I was here (1972) it was still part of Israel. Last week we hired a driver in Luxor; a lovely man who was Christian and told me that he gets no work because he is persecuted by the Muslims. I don’t advertise being Jewish, especially in Egypt, but I felt safe with Mena. I asked him if he knew any Jewish people. He googled it and said, “ I love the Moses people“! He said that his father and grandfather were very sad when land was given back to Egypt.
* so anyone needing a great driver in Luxor, please let me know!
How creepy concerning the pictures on the walls: how cleansing can have so many meanings. An enema is cleansing but we will not go there.
As a person who went through a long period of reading MANY different types of difficult books on Judaism as well as touchy feeling books, etc - it was easy to get swamped by the vast library shelf of long complicated books by scholars which were fascinating in ideas and devotion but I did wonder “Is this book ever going to end? Please God make it so!”
And so I like the mix you bring to your Drop leaving the reader to decide if they want to explore a topic in greater depth.
As part of a family that celebrates Christmas and finds entering the Jewish world too complex I’d love to read a Drop on that next year.
While each drop is informative and clever, this one stands out for me as being extremely insightful and filled with so many juicy tid bits, not dissimilar to your pirogies, and reads as both a personal travel log, (introspective journey) and a societal one with lots of examples to accentuate your points. Great writing too injected with your fabulous wit. Love everything about you.
just realised i never sent my comment to this post! it was so incredible and meaningful meeting irl - thank you for the opportunity 🙌🏻 also, as someone living here, Poland is also, in fact, not my favorite European country I’ve ever been to lol!
I’m in Sharm el Sheikh. The last time I was here (1972) it was still part of Israel. Last week we hired a driver in Luxor; a lovely man who was Christian and told me that he gets no work because he is persecuted by the Muslims. I don’t advertise being Jewish, especially in Egypt, but I felt safe with Mena. I asked him if he knew any Jewish people. He googled it and said, “ I love the Moses people“! He said that his father and grandfather were very sad when land was given back to Egypt.
* so anyone needing a great driver in Luxor, please let me know!
How creepy concerning the pictures on the walls: how cleansing can have so many meanings. An enema is cleansing but we will not go there.
As a person who went through a long period of reading MANY different types of difficult books on Judaism as well as touchy feeling books, etc - it was easy to get swamped by the vast library shelf of long complicated books by scholars which were fascinating in ideas and devotion but I did wonder “Is this book ever going to end? Please God make it so!”
And so I like the mix you bring to your Drop leaving the reader to decide if they want to explore a topic in greater depth.
As part of a family that celebrates Christmas and finds entering the Jewish world too complex I’d love to read a Drop on that next year.
awesome site today...nice job!
While each drop is informative and clever, this one stands out for me as being extremely insightful and filled with so many juicy tid bits, not dissimilar to your pirogies, and reads as both a personal travel log, (introspective journey) and a societal one with lots of examples to accentuate your points. Great writing too injected with your fabulous wit. Love everything about you.