Rosh HaShana (ts)

Ok so Rosh HaShana was Fraiday night to Sunday sunset I know thats 2 full days but we have multiple day holiday. So there's been a bunch of stuff that happenned but I don't remember to much of it. So starting with Friday of what I do remember, actually a little before that Ok so yeah stats I screwed up I wasn't checking online for hw and missed one assignment then realized it looked like one a week, so I went Friday made sure my suite mate knew cuz he missed with me last time so I pretty much ran him threw how to do the whole thing. Well when he got to class he whined and complained that I made him do the assignment after he had just done an all nighter for a paper him and my room mate both didn't get to sleep forever, which by the way is the first time I've ever seen him awake when I woke up.
Of course today when it's due turns out it eneded up getting trashed on accident when his gf knocked his book into the trash.
So he noticed in class and the teacher gave him some spare time.

Ok that was minor and a waste of your time but then again so is everything I write. I thank you and may all of you have a shana tov.

Anyhow now for Rosh HaShana if there were enough people reading this I could actually make this assumption, I can't but I'll pretend. So. . .
Ok some of ya'll probably look at the title and have no idea what Rosh HaShana is and is like dude you misspelled there's an extra capital letter. Yes I did mean to do that because in hebrew ha is the prefix meaning the and Shana means year.
So now there are those who are better off and new it was hebrew and was like thats that one holiday right crap, what was it?? Yes its Head of The Year, or The Jewish New Year. Now some of you know your Judaism (yeah you) and were like I know Rosh HaShana but what the heck is (ts) now you are all awesome so I will asnwer that it's torah study, yes you are doomed for my torah study this post (the very few of you who know what that is).

Ok so I rushed home Friday night with all my might to get home 6:30 so I could change in 10 min leave and by 7:00 make it to synogague to see Libbi at services. I get home 7:10 cuz of traffic and missed out on chess club vollunteering we were down to two people this week.
So I'm tired exhausted and thinking about gunning, it and then learn Brandon David and dad are at a football game, and I just give up, I'ld make the last 15 min at best of the service, and yeah so I go read in my room I decide this being the first shabbat of the year I should follow it. WEll Family gets home and I leave my phone, yes I realize this is cheating but I meant to answer it when diedre called since I didn't want to call, and figured that would be fair. Of course when I leave it for a second I miss the call go to call her back, and yeah she eventually convinces me to get online and it's like huh I was really trying to be good for once.

NEXT DAY SERVICES yay!!!!!!
So I get dressed like 50 times cuz apparently to this day I still can't tell whats nice clothes, and tried copying David and yeah just didn't do well.
So I get there and Libbi's kind of dead looking and I'm all pupedish, and guy that cantar was . . . well I guess good, but ahh I hated it. It was like why the hell do you do it this way I mean no wonder no one goes to services after sitting through that I'ld be scared of services, but basically you sing everything as slow as physically possible I mean some words must have lasted a full minute and with in 5 minutes I was ready to fall asleep and I was like holy crap how that takes talent to knock me out that fast. His voice although following the melody was rediculous and drove me nuts and I was like if we have to be here for so long than just do more stuff but go faster.
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(Torah Study)
So then came the rabbi's sermon which was almost the title of this: nonreligious secular jews
mostly cuz I thought it a fun compound of words, but he went on about how even though other religions say god is love doesn't mean we don't believe it, even if we usually do believe the opposite of everyone else this is not one of those times. Although there are several reasons we hesitate on this and one of them was we don't like to categorize him as just love because G-d also hates and she also has jealousy and compassion, etc.
(I realize other religions may not see G-d with hate, but that one's hard to deny on the old testament (G-d hates the hand that commits the crime, and evil), but the jealousy is probably the really shocking one)
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Ok so that finishes the service goes on forever, and then at the end of the torah service, before the Musaf service which my dad claims was service for the dead but I didn't see more than one prayer for the mourning, but then again that prayer doesn't mention a thing about death or mourning it just is the mourning prayer.
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So then the rabbi's like ok so there was this rabbi convention thing where abunch of people get together and take people idea's and run with them as if they are there own, and well this text which is really different and rare was the one that we talked about and well I'm emotional.
So. . .
When you read the text it says (as best as I remember)
On Rosh Hashana it is written
On Yom Kipur it is sealed:

How many will die. How many will be born.
How many will die by fired. How many by water. How many will die by sword. How many by stoning.

By good deeds, compassion, and following the commandments the decree can be less severe. (as a little caption underneath it)
So the rabbi continues that he doesn't really like it (I have several theories and part of the reason it is so rare and odd is one because it is very fate based and controlling and another as the rabbi had just had that love sermon; this is not somthing you could easily due to those you love) So he goes on and says with somthing like this I believe you have to take it very literally (so now your like wait why take it literally if you don't like it, and think about it if you don't take it literally its then a moral lesson and you don't want it to be a lesson so you make it literal, but the question is with this how do you make it literal and yet not mean the same thing as a lesson. The thing you must remember though is this is a translation and biblical hebrew is an old and not quite equivalent language. So well we look at whats different for one biblical hebrew doesn't have tenses. So you can try changing it to past tense which kind of works, but lets keep looking. It's punctuation is just a colon and maybe a period but nothing distinguishes questions from declaritives so. . . ) So the rabbi continued I think they messed up all the punctuation I think it should all be ?
How many will die? How many will be born?
How many will die by fire? by water?
How many will die by sword? by stoning?
(now the new question is how looking at that could someone assume that was a declaritive instead of question, but looking back it does make some sense. Of course the difference is between those who believe that God is perfect and would not ask questions and would be more likely to be harsh, while the other doesn't believe God would doom him children but would express his worries and paranoia for what were doing to ourselves.)
So of course normal jewish thought is against my rabbi, which I agree with.
Then he finished off with so now you've been warned if you meet up with someone from another synogague and they say. . .
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Ok so Then go home play some Foozeball get some homework done after sunset
attempt to take brothers to a movie but it will end after curfew and Brandon's bad directions combined with the fact that we tried to do the TExas City one yeah that sucked getting sent back home.
Sunday did homework and now I'm here and tired and exhausted with two tests on WEd one is org chem and gonna kill me
Quote: Do not despise any person, and do not consider anything impossible, for there is no person who does not have an hour and no thing that does not have its place.

- Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot) 4:3 (Jewish Wisdom)

24. . .20.5 hours

So ok It's 24 hours until the new year
theres hardly time left to screw up and everything seems to be crashing down on me at once I already have my first 0.
I can't wait to go home nothings wrong with this place, but the classes are starting to get under my skin. Statistics is frickin easy and the data desk thing is absolutely rediculous I have never seen technology make anything so easy so difficult before. I Understand computers in Calculus not only are they infinately complex, but there is some purpose, the only thing comp. are good for in statistics is printing graphs and plots. Everything should be allowed nothing more powerful than a 4 function calculator. Thats why I got a 0 cuz I didn't turn in a printed assignment I actually did it just didn't see I had to turn it in. I threw the notes away and didn't have proof of anything. I must have spent an hour trying to make the damn program bring up what I wanted if not longer and 15 min answering the 15 questions
IN fact most that time was spent calculating somthing that I'm not allowed to calculate and have to get from the program and I don't know which one of the 3 that gives I should take, and there all higher than my value.
I got to do water painting today, for a charity thing. and realized holy crap nobody cares about anyone but themselves now a days I mean APO is a frickin service organization and no one can even get them to do anything. Only to join do they do service cuz you have to, and then theres a little bit required each semester and everyone waits to the last second and then rushes it while I'm over here like nope I do 4 hours a week of stuff non APO then go there planning to pick up more stuff.

Ok and more of why I like being a jew. . . oh and not related I wore my kiss me I'm kosher shirt today and got compliments on that by a bunch of random girls throughout the first part of the day.

Rabbi Elazar would first give a coin to a poor man, and then pray.

- Babylonian Talmud
If a person closes his eyes to avoid giving [any] charity, it is as if he committed idolatry.

- Babylonian Talmud,
The first says that practice making the world better before praying for it
the second says avoiding charity is as bad as some of the worst of commandment breaking.

broken owl

I so love my nonsensical titles. OK so broken first yeahh. . . not cool

ummm. . . .well so I had my first real lesson Tuesday and so she decided as I was caring my stuff upstairs she wanted to hold my trombone for me, so I wasn't gonna stop her. And she was playing with my trigger and was like Scott if this was your car would you take it on a long road trip. My thought secretly to myself was actually it makes more sounds usually with the breaks and yes I still take it on 4 hour trips.
But anyhow so she then was like you need some rotary oil ask a french horn for some. And then she played with my slide and was like wow thats good, and my tuning slides and oh there pretty good too.
So the next day in band class the 30 year old french horn tosses me rotarty oil I assume she talked to him. So I go taking my tuning slides out to put in the rotary oil and do it all, and I go to put my main one back in first cuz it's shorter, and it won't go in, and I'm trying to be careful not to put weight on funny so that it doesn't bend, but I have to use more and more force and kind of zig zag it on. finally I look at it and realize that the bar I was pushing on is only connected on one side. I think I broke it, and then it was pulled down, so if I pushed up on it and down on the top it suddenly clicked and easily went down, and I was really sad that I think I just broke my horn.

OWL yay!!! so I then walked up to my dorm, and that evening and there's this owl eye level 20 feet away just sitting on this branch, and at first I thought the sound was from the girl below just being silly, and then was like whoa, it's just sitting there. It was awesome.
Yes I am a freak

So then hecticness right now my schedule fits perfectly no spare time for anything, and thats when my classes are easy once they pick up not sure whats gonna happen.

oH and I went to Hillel last night was scared I was gonna get ticketed or towed and didn't think I had enough to get my car back if it was. Yeah my accounts really low right now there was no parking but i did park on the street with a pack of car and unlike a car near me I wasn't under the no parking sign.
Hillel was fun I only remember one name Rob, and Sarah was there as well as Allison. Sarah hadn't realized I didn't go to UT. and everyone was like why did you come here or why are you going to Southwestern, thats the expensive christian school.
A bunch of nice people and good food. but what else is to be expected (i mean its a jewish event of course there will be good food)
and I learned Dell is even awesomer
He's actually jewish and went to UT He got his start in the Chester dorm, not really sure where that is. And he donates a crap load to the Hillel what a surprise. lol

Oh and last thing RenFest. I will be a satyr/faun because Diedre is le awesomest and willing to make me a costume. but ewwwwwwwwwwwwww She wants me to grow out my facial hair, for the costume.

Oh and hebrews about to get dropped if I don't get all this technical registrar stuff done Monday.


QUOTE OF THE POST:
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. THIS is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson