2023.09.26 07:00 - Central Synagogue

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
Riddle Sideways: Sit anywhere
Adams Rubble: Had trouble getting here
Riddle Sideways: thought that
Adams Rubble: will have to leave early - about the half hour
Riddle Sideways: ok.

Adams Rubble: I watched a moving Yopm Kippur service from the Central Synagogue in NYC
Adams Rubble: then watched a bit of the morning service
Riddle Sideways: Nice!
Adams Rubble: they replaced the reading from Leviticus to one dealing with freedom
Riddle Sideways: the evening service part
Adams Rubble: read in hebrew and did not say what it was
Adams Rubble: I had the idea it was a reformed change
Adams Rubble: do you know what the passage was?
Riddle Sideways: hmmm, afternoon yesterday was Leviticus for us
Adams Rubble: ahh, OK

Adams Rubble: I had other questions but I forgot
Adams Rubble: :(
Riddle Sideways: ㋡ forgetting happens

Adams Rubble: the Central Synagogiue is doing much for immigrants
Riddle Sideways: trouble finding what morning Torah reading was
Adams Rubble: I ordered a book on Jewish liturgy
Riddle Sideways: and heard on radio that NY has the Guard sent to handle immigrants
Adams Rubble: coming tomorrow
Riddle Sideways: ah. Yes, Central is big and does great works
Adams Rubble: the music was moving
Adams Rubble: we have had four days of Ophelia trying to drown us but I told Ophelia to get to a nunnery this morning
Riddle Sideways: will listen to some of their music. Ours was moving too
Riddle Sideways: ha ㋡
Riddle Sideways: (Have had a cleaning person named Ophelia, for years)
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: The Eastern seaboard needed a bit of washing down
Adams Rubble: ha
Adams Rubble: we have been having plenty of rain most of the summer.
Adams Rubble: there was one brief dry spell late spring or early sunmer
Riddle Sideways: Leviticus is a bit hard to get into. All those laws, rules and shalts and shalt nots
Adams Rubble nods
Riddle Sideways: Our Rabbi skipped the usual Israel sermon. He is mad at their politics
Riddle Sideways: instead did sermons on being a good person and making the world better
Adams Rubble: the NY sermon was about immigrants
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Adams Rubble: The Israil situation is a huge issue for jewish people

Riddle Sideways: Our Kol Nidra service/song was played by a very good Celist
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: has been on violin for many years by a kid that grew up here
Adams Rubble: NY had a cellist at the beginning then the cantor later
Riddle Sideways: the cello is so much better a mournful instrument
Riddle Sideways: draw the heart strings better

Adams Rubble: bell
Adams Rubble: I must go
Adams Rubble: bye\
Riddle Sideways: have a good week