Back when we were taking our pre-marital/conversion classes at our temple, we met J., a recent immigrant to Montreal from Central America, who had uprooted pretty much his entire life to come here and convert to Judaism. When we met him, he had only been here a couple of months. He’d found a job and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Judaism’
The Warm and the Fuzzy.
Posted in Married Life, tagged community, friends, Judaism on November 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Shana Tova U’Metuka
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Judaism, reflection on September 18, 2009 | 15 Comments »
The Jewish new year begins at sunset today, ushering in the year 5770. When I was younger, I used to dread the high holidays, as a young person totally alienated from the Jewish community and bored to death in extremely rigid synagogues that were oppressively stuffy for hours on end. These days, I look forward [...]
On not taking oneself too seriously.
Posted in Wedding, tagged Judaism, recap on September 4, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I think we can all agree that I have had a very verbose week. So on this sunny Friday, I am just going to post a whole lot of pictures, with just a little text. And funny ones at that. Yesterday, you all told me you loved the photo of me looking like I was [...]
Blessed.
Posted in Wedding, tagged community, family, friends, huppah, Judaism, recap on August 26, 2009 | 13 Comments »
I admit that I have been finding the prospect of recapping intimidating. For one thing, it’s hard to write recaps at work (like I did many previous posts, shh!) when all the photos are sitting at home, and the mister and I are finally on similar schedules so we actually get to hang out together [...]
Flipping the switch.
Posted in Wedding, tagged anxiety, Judaism, recap on August 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The week leading up to our wedding was stressful. Both the mister and I worked up until late Thursday night, which was perhaps ill-advised, but we wanted to save our vacation time for the honeymoon. At the same time, his family was in town, and we needed to spend much of our little free time [...]
And I betroth you to me forever
Posted in Wedding, tagged Judaism, ketubah on June 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Look what arrived in the mail yesterday!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know why I look so crazed–I think it’s mostly because I took this photo on a timer and was concentrating really hard. Ha.
We love our ketubah. It is very colourful and on nice heavy paper and full of really scary promises we are going to make to [...]
Planning the acquisition of the partnership
Posted in Wedding, tagged ceremony, feminism, Judaism on June 16, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Sexy title, huh?
Ok, I think it is clear at this point that I am far more interested in our ceremony at the moment than in any boring details of our party. This is likely because the party was mostly planned long ago and the ceremony is what’s been planned recently, as well as the “holy [...]
Weddings as connection
Posted in Wedding, tagged ceremony, Judaism, reflection on June 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Sometimes Meg says stuff that makes me feel like she is writing from inside my brain. Her moving post today is one of those times:
In the Jewish tradition, your wedding day is a personal Yom Kippur, a day of atonement. It’s a day you approach with deep internal meditation, making yourself right with the world, [...]
Someone get this girl a sedative.
Posted in Wedding, tagged ceremony, Judaism, reflection, the mister on June 10, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Because this shit is really happening, folks.
Six months ago, the rabbi’s secretary called me up to schedule our “pre-marriage” appointment with the rabbi, in which we were to go over the ceremony and all the related details. It seemed like forever in the future when we made the appointment and I joked about the ridiculous [...]
