Weekend Hospitality

Winter weather is supposed to visit us this weekend. Chilly (single digits celsius, high 30's fahrenheit)., with rain, sleet, thunder and lightning. I love "big" weather, and this weekend should be lots of fun. There are few things better than sitting in a warm house, watching the rain fall in sheets, lit by lightning bolts and reverberating with thunder! BTW: an equivalent experience is watching a major snow storm. Nature (God's Angel) is powerful and great! We have a mixed house this weekend, with three young ladies from MMY (via our calling cards) and two yeshiva boys that we got from Anywhere in Israel. To make things even more interesting, we got invited out for dinner! What wonderful friends. We told then that our crowd would be 12 people and they didn't blink! I offered to bring something, but they turned me down! I love our community and our friends. I have never lived or heard about a place that has this kind of compassion and support. Through g...

Another winter Shabbat.  The wind has been blowing, but the temperature has been moderate.  A number of trees on the yishuv were blown over last night, and I had dreams about being carried away by a flood.  Pretty fun stuff. This weekend, we have are hosting my parents and three ladies from Midreshet Meveserey Yerushalayim (MMY).  Dinner should be cozy with only 12 of us.  For lunch, my parents will be visited my cousin, but we will be entertaining a young family with three small boys.  That's going to be interesting.  We have tried hard to forget what its like to have little children around the house. One of our guests tomorrow has Celiac, a disease the makes your violently allergic to gluten. Not much of a problem for me, since I am used to cooking for Atkins.  No starch what-so-ever.  Most of the lunch items are clean.  The meat roll is just plain wrong (but I made it for the kids). Shabbat Parshat Vaeira Dinner - 12 Vegetable Turkey Soup Sauted Chicken breasts (by my mom!) Par...