Waffle and Writings! for Sunday, May 3, 2009

I did not go to this event and had intended to but I did find photos on the net about it. It is fascinating and is a very rare mitza as not many donkeys in this day and age are owned by Jews. If we do own a male donkey that is the first born or first issue of its mother donkey, we have to redeem it. As a donkey can not enter the grounds of the Beit Hamikdosh it has to be exchanged for a sheep that will be shected or slaughtered eventually. Here is the link to the photos.... Sign in to see full entry.

I am waiting for my son to wake up to apologise to him and ask his forgiveness for something that happened yesterday evening. He was having a bath and before I left upstairs, to go downstairs to get his dinner ready, I put his fresh underwear and his pyjamas on his bed to be ready for him to put on once he got out of the bath and dried himself. I continued the preparations for his dinner as I wanted to do it quickly in order that he should get to bed as it was later than our usual dinner time.... Sign in to see full entry.

Run tangled lines To hearts and minds, as skillfully we weave, building images on who we perceive them to be, They perceive us to be Someone different by far To who we imagine we are. Yet they may be closer to the truth Yet by far more distant Than we know. It is all a matter of whose Perspective we take. Sign in to see full entry.