tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post2687166857164894087..comments2023-08-21T05:06:01.458-04:00Comments on LIVE FROM THE HILLTOP: A true lossMimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106085670679459091noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post-53970567326302375282007-11-21T17:48:00.000-05:002007-11-21T17:48:00.000-05:00bs''d i also love my crocs. i have anes pair of...bs''d<BR/> i also love my crocs. i have anes pair of laced up waterproof crocs that i wore to kever rochel tonight in the first real heavy rain here in the holy land.<BR/> with warm blessings from the hills of yehuda.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post-8653087616841209142007-08-01T12:48:00.000-04:002007-08-01T12:48:00.000-04:00I am now in Rome, today I walked by the arch of Ti...I am now in Rome, today I walked by the arch of Titus with the famous 7 branched menorah that is carried by the Jews going in to exile there I felt the destruction .It was one of those moments. When Hitler came to Rome he walked under this arch for half hour saying it was the great thing he had seen .Since then it is roped off so no one can walk under and condone with the Jewish exile. To day I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post-52857288284248248722007-07-29T02:09:00.000-04:002007-07-29T02:09:00.000-04:00"Poor old neglected blog" seems to to be having a ..."Poor old neglected blog" seems to to be having a revival ;). reflection of it's author perhaps?Israel Krasnianskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04986459790101503071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post-23540070502477632972007-07-25T18:45:00.000-04:002007-07-25T18:45:00.000-04:00I SAID Eichah (LAMENTATIONS)THEN WE WATCHED A WOOD...I SAID Eichah (LAMENTATIONS)<BR/>THEN WE WATCHED A WOODY ALLEN MOVIE LOVE AND DEATH Prokofiev's "Troika" from the Lieutenant Kije Suite is featured prominently SO MY TISHA B'A V MY MAIN PROBLEM WAS Starvation TILL malnutrition .FOR SOME REASON I AM APATHETIC ABOUT A SLUGHTER HOUSE BURNT DOWN ON A MOUNT 423 B.C.E AND THEN 69 C.E I WORRY ABOUT THE MORDEN DAY TISHA B’A AV IN THE SUDANAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post-70114422572051017882007-07-25T18:03:00.000-04:002007-07-25T18:03:00.000-04:00So true.I felt like that every year.But not this y...So true.<BR/>I felt like that every year.<BR/>But not this year.<BR/>Ok, so my mourning wasn't for the Beis Hamikdash.<BR/><BR/>My mother was recently orphaned. The death of the second parent came unexpectedly erev shabbos. The leveya was erev tisha b'av on har hazeisim. My mother spent Tisha B'av in Yerushalayim. The whole situation is still surreal to me.<BR/><BR/>But, as I sat in 770 sayingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post-91319120310022587182007-07-25T02:24:00.000-04:002007-07-25T02:24:00.000-04:00Oh, Mimi.... I think we're all like that, but eve...Oh, Mimi.... I think we're all like that, but even worse, half of us don't realize it. Refuah shelaima for the finger...<BR/><BR/>I was concentrating on Eicha for 10 minutes and then couldn't pay attention to the meaning anymore...it's so graphic, though.chaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14023083898665410736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post-53852293250897040852007-07-24T21:48:00.000-04:002007-07-24T21:48:00.000-04:00Thanks for wording what I'm feeling better than I ...Thanks for wording what I'm feeling better than I possibly could. I just don't thing we're really good at this mourning stuff... we forget not too be happy and I don't think that's something we have to feel bad about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post-62125942027887602642007-07-24T21:37:00.000-04:002007-07-24T21:37:00.000-04:00'keep inspiring us even when you think you aren't ...'keep inspiring us even when you think you aren't inspired' - very well said. <BR/>Mimi, your posts are so raw and so real, you touch the right nerve, the right point in each of our hearts every time. <BR/>I only wish we couldn't relate to this post. <BR/>I wish we all truly felt the loss and no, even more - had the third Beis Hamikdosh, when we wont feel the loss because of our great joy! May weZeigezunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15109580133082605111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post-65611386165432457882007-07-24T17:29:00.000-04:002007-07-24T17:29:00.000-04:00The churban of the Temple affects me very much, bu...The churban of the Temple affects me very much, but it still doesn't affect me as much as our present inability to rebuilt it, I can't relate to the churban as an event, I relate more to the consequences, from the holocaust, antisemitism to the loss of thousands of neshamos to cults, intermarriages, unaffiliation, drugs..etc.<BR/>I am sure your loss is very easy to heal, it isn't easy to be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post-88819381517302904232007-07-24T17:10:00.000-04:002007-07-24T17:10:00.000-04:00I think that we are so deep into golus that we jus...I think that we are so deep into golus that we just do not even understand what we lost. Yes, I read Eicha last night, but my thoughts immediately went toward how it reminds me of the state of affairs in EY today. It is so hard to respond to that which we never experienced, and the sitra achra knows that we have experienced only golus, so it wants to keep us there. <BR/><BR/>Only my stomach seemsDer Shygetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03156901845306359680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20788163.post-1057524991192302602007-07-24T17:07:00.000-04:002007-07-24T17:07:00.000-04:00May we all march to the rebuilding of the Bais Ham...May we all march to the rebuilding of the Bais Hamikdosh NOW even if we r still wearing our crocs. Green, blue yellow crocs, may we all march forward. <BR/>Great sensitivity MIM. Take care of that finger as u will need it to write about the miraculous events of redemption. <BR/><BR/>Luv yaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com