Rabbi’s Musings & Amusings

Over the years, as our family has grown, baruch Hashem, coupled with the fact that we enjoy having guests for Shabbos meals, we have outgrown our dining room table.

I don’t like fish.

Well, that’s not really true. I enjoy watching fish swimming around and I find them to be fascinating. But that’s while they are alive. Once they are dead, I don’t like them anymore, especially not on my plate.

If ignorance is bliss, illiteracy can be beneficial.

Perhaps the most underappreciated honor that one can receive in shul is to do hagbaha - raising the Torah for the entire congregation to see.

Boy, do the Yankees and their fans miss Mariano Rivera!

 Until his retirement, the Yankees knew that if they could hold a lead until the eighth inning, they could bring in the Sandman to throw his wily cutter and shut down the opposition and score another victory.

I have been a member of the Camp Dora Golding administration for almost two decades. During those years, the administration has not had any vocal Mets fans. Yankees fans have ruled the roost, which means that announcement of scores during meals has always been Yankees-biased, which suited me.