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Thanks. Really. (Part 2)

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I’ve written about my next mentor often.  (Here’s but one example– with another great story about Cary.)  He was but one half of the management team that took a chance to hire me.  A soon-to-be 14 y old kid.  And, let me basically take over their baby.  (As you can see, Cary became a mentor about the time I was losing touch with Ms. Katzman.  I’d been really lucky to have a continuous mentor relationship for nigh 16 years, by the time this one ends.)

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Rosh Chodesh Elul 2017

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Tonight begins a new moon.  In my religion, that means it is a new month (called Rosh Chodesh), and this one is Elul.  This new moon crosses two days..   The first day, (the one starting tonight) is the 20th anniversary of the death of my mom.  This anniversary is called a Yahrzeit.  The second day of the new moon of Elul is anniversary of my daughter’s bat mitzva- and tomorrow happens to be her secular birthday, to boot.  

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Sh’vuot- the Feast of Weeks.

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48, 49, 50!

We’ve been counting our days since the Pesach (Passover) Seder.   50 days after we were freed from Egypt (Mitzrayim- a place of narrow straits), we were waiting by Mount Sinai (sorry- NOT in the “Sinai Peninsula”, more likely in Saudi Arabia, near an active volcano), to receive the 10 Commandments. Where the words were seen- yes, seen. I admit, until I saw the effects of a rocket plant explosion in Henderson, Nevada, I had no idea you really could see “sound”.  Not surprising that those in attendance were totally awed…

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