For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 22, 2012

Q: What gets broken by mentioning its name? A: Silence.

I don’t mind fasting on Yom Kippur; what I do mind is not using electricity. I will have to take a subway to my chavura on the Upper West Side, though. If I go with someone, I’ll hand him my metrocard to put me in the subway. If no one goes with me, I’ll just have to do it myself. I used to stay at a friend’s home a few blocks away, but he moved.

The drawback of having kids.

Bet they both woke him up!

You tell him kid ?

Unless that’s root beer in his mug, was it wise to go to sleep with it available to the kids?

Yeah sure, “rap” “rap” “rap” Dad, Dad, are you sleeping?Dad are you sleeping" Dad I need 5 dollars, mom said to ask you. Lol lol lol

Yep my house on a Saturday morning.

What about the early Christians that had communal marriages(I guess that they are not “deliberately and defiantly sexually immoral christian”s)? Paul was like that for himself, not other Christians.

@wbgeek: I only commented here because I have no other way of communicating with the person the comment was aimed at. I’ve tried to invite her to Benitin y Eneas en espanol, where we talk about anything, but, so far, she has not joined.

Re the subway: It works like a shabaton elevator. If youi live on a high floor and don’t want to push the buttons on Shabat, the elevator stops automatically on each floor. A Conservative jew is allowed to drive to shul if he lives too far away, as long as he doesn’t conduct other busuness along the way (ie, dropping his laundry off).

As far as asking my friend to use my metrocard to get me in the subway: My friend is a Turkish Muslim who will be staying at my home when he arrives frrom Turkey. He has never seen a Kol Nidre service (the night before the day of Yom Kippur) and Kol Nidre, when sung (not by a cantor in my havura, but by the congregants, is reaally beautiful. Of course, I would not subject him to attend services the next (long) day. He will be off on his own.

LOL! Totally like this in my house… My husband takes naps daily (when it’s not a work day), and we’ve gotten used to checking if he’s sleeping before we yell. But occasionally we forget… :-)

The inevitable by product of permissible, politically correct parenting.

That is how my dad is with my kids sometimes. But its more like “Your grandmother is sleeping, BE QuIET!” Guess which of the noise makers actually wakes up Grandma? Yup, and my dad never seems to learn.

When I used to try taking a nap, my kids would crawl all over me. It was difficult to get in a few Zs.

I admire the Jewish people. Through them we Christians are all blessed. Have a blessed Yom Kippur.

Hire a shabbez goy

I would appreciate it if you refrained from using rude and derogatory terms to describe ‘non-Jews’, thank you so much. ‘Gentile’ is a perfectly acceptable polite word.

And let’s face it, if we all followed to the absolute letter the (often contradictory) rules of our various faiths we’d have a hard time living in the world. Which, on reflection, is perhaps the point of the rules.