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daily kaddish: memories shared with good friends

Posted on 17 October 201120 October 2011 by erin

Tonight I had dinner with some dear friends, who know both me and my soon-to-be-ex-wife well.

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daily kaddish: because it’s what we do

Posted on 16 October 201120 October 2011 by erin

Today’s Kaddish is another whose only theme, really, is that this is what we do during our year.

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daily kaddish: horn, text, and chant

Posted on 15 October 201118 October 2011 by erin

I absent-mindedly starting chanting the text along with the melody while setting levels for Mira to record the spoken text.

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daily kaddish: 44 more to go

Posted on 14 October 201116 October 2011 by erin

Mira pointed out before we recorded the Kaddish tonight that we have forty-four more of these to go before completing our lunar year of them on 27 November 2011. We started on 7 November 2011.

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daily kaddish: for Dennis Ritchie

Posted on 13 October 201116 October 2011 by erin

Tonight’s Kaddish is for Dennis Ritchie, the father of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system, among other accomplishments, who died yesterday at the age of 70.

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sephardi pride, ashkenazi arrogance 1.1.9

Posted on 13 October 201113 October 2011 by mira

“Peasants!” the rebbe would mutter under his breath, when his wife Sarah’s customs went too far for his Ashkenazi sensibilities. But of course, her people were not peasants. They were proud of a long and sanctified lineage.  Proud of the language they had retained since the 15th century.  Proud of those they claimed as their…

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daily kaddish: at 1am

Posted on 12 October 201116 October 2011 by erin

Once again a statistical software conference pushes my Kaddish duties into the wee hours.

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daily kaddish: at 2am

Posted on 11 October 201116 October 2011 by erin

Sometimes keeping up the daily ritual is a royal pain.

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daily kaddish: ein ein sof

Posted on 10 October 201116 October 2011 by erin

Mira opens this Kaddish with a reading from a book the Beit Malkhut study group is working on. I’ll let her explain. —Erin

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daily kaddish: the Steve Jobs we didn’t know

Posted on 9 October 201115 October 2011 by erin

I wanted to play another Kaddish for Steve Jobs after reading my friend Lori’s remembrance of him from her days working at Apple.

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