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We all came White Rabbit by public transportation, which is easy from Jerusalem and Shiloh via Ariel. There are lots of buses and even the Tel Aviv lightrail. The special festival continues right now until 4pm.
If you can't make it, contact them +972 3-624-2783 and/or info@white-rabbit.co.il.
Sorry I don't have time to make this longer and more detailed.
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| I definitely enjoyed the new beer and recommend it |
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| Here's the Beer Maven, Doug Greener talking beer business |
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| White Rabbit Brewery, 12 Hata'asiya Street, Tel Aviv |
There will be two days of Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, the last of Tishrei and the first of Cheshvan. The women who come to Tel Shiloh to pray together on Rosh Chodesh voted to Pray together on Wednesday, 22/10/2025, the 30th of Tishrei at 8:30am.
There's lots to do in Tel Shiloh, Ancient Shiloh Hakeduma. For more information about Tel Shiloh +972 2-578-9111 or visit@telshilo.org.il.
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| Group tying session led/instructed by Eli Poch |
“Tzitzit” – The “Mitzvah” (Divine Command) of attaching “Tzitzit” (a group of threads, attached in a special way, as defined by “Halachah L’Moshe MiSinai;” that is, according to Jewish Tradition, taught to Moshe by G-d on Mount Sinai during his forty days and nights atop the mountain, but not included explicitly in the Written Torah) to a garment with which one covers oneself, as it says in Parashat Shelach (BaMidbar 15:38), “And they should make Tzitzit…” (from the OU site)
In recent years, instead of discreetly tucking the strings in their slacks, more and more Torah observant Jewish men wear them showing proudly, no matter where they are.
One of my neighbors decided that she wanted to tie tzitziyot and asked her friends in other communities about it. They told her to contact Eli Poch, who runs project Tzitzit for Tzahal, was willing to travel to Shiloh with the required four cornered garment of especial IDF provided non-flamable fabric four-cornered shirts in a variety of sizes and strings. And he even found time before Rosh Hashannah for his first visit, which I couldn't attend. Thank Gd I made it to the second session, and he very patiently taught us, encouraged us and inspected the finished tzitziyot.
Gd willing he'll return after Simchat Torah for another session, since it will take a while until we can tie without someone instructing, checking and encouraging...
If you'd like to find a Tzitzit for Tzahal group near you, or start one, you can WhatsApp only +972 54-646-7624.
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| Here I am tying on the couch, far from the airconditioner... |
Unlike my previous Pishers' Guides, the list can be found at the end of the post, not the beginning.
So, I figured that worse comes to worse I could "hold my nose" or flee and search for another one.
As you can see the instructions are in three languages plus icons on the outside.
As you can see in the photo, the toilet is stainless steel, meaning that it should be easy to clean and relatively unbreakable. It took me a few seconds to realize how the sink worked. I was pleasantly surprised by the warm water.
Now I don't fear entering these WCs. Of course, there can always be problems. Cleaning staff isn't there 24/7.
What's your experience with these public toilets? If you reply in the comments, then please indicated location and hour.
I will just mention one specific beer. It's Tomer, made in memory of Tomer Nagar, who was killed in the October 7, 2023 massacre. His family and friends make the beer in his memory. I tasted them, and they were all good, though my favorite was the most unusual. Rarely do I like flavored beers, since it's rare to find a fruit or vegetable that has the power to work well with a good strong beer.
Davka Tomer's friends flavored one of them with אגוזים egozim, walnuts. Yes, it's not the usual, but the rich, earthiness of the walnut worked well with the beer. The citrus aroma doesn't prepare you for its special taste. I loved it, and when I was offered a choice of a gift beer by the festival's organizers, it's an easy guess to know what I chose.
In Israel recycling is suggestion, not required. I save bottles, glass and plastic, for the deposit money, but it's not for me. There's a neighbor who keeps bins for people to drop their bottles off, which I do weekly. Then another neighbor collects them in large strong bags, each holding fifty 50.
This week, I found myself going with that neighbor to a couple of large supermarkets, one in Ariel and the other in Rosh Ha'ayin to get the money. I want to make it clear that she uses the money from the bottle deposits to donate to a charity for IDF soldiers.
The supermarkets limit the amount of bottles a person could bring to fifty 50-- and they're counted--, so my attendance was necessary. We were able to bring one hundred 100 bottles to each supermarket.
Many, actually most, supermarkets don't have enough space to accept bottles. This is big business, or at least bulky. And obviously they have to send the bottles to somewhere... after accepting them.
I'm glad to have helped. To be perfectly honest, I had an ulterior motive traveling with her. She works near where I had to be...
No doubt I'm a rare breed. I love grammar, and it really bothers me to hear and read grammatical mistakes. There was a time when newspapers and magazines had staff to check for mistakes and correct them. There was a time when people couldn't get jobs in the media, or teaching, without excellent grammar. Now not even teachers speak or write correctly, so how can they teach the next generation?
I'm not talking about the most complicated word usage or sentence structure. This time I'll start with something so basic and so easy to teach it's totally incomprehensible to me why the misusage has become some common, even acceptable.
Let's start with the proper usage of the words "more" and "most" and suffixes "-er" and "-est."
Just a few years ago, when I was an EFL- English as a Foreign Language English teacher, I found a very easy way to teach my students the difference between "more" vs "most" and "-er" vs "-est." I'd give them a very easy way to remember.
-er is two letters, so using it or the word more compare two things:
Joe is taller than Sam. Joe is the taller one. But Sam has more toys than Joe.
-est is three letters, so using it or most compares three or more things:
Kate is ten, but Jane is seven and Sue is nine years old. Kate is the oldest, and Jane is the youngest. Sue has eleven dolls, but Kate and Jane have only six each. Sue has the most dolls.
Too many times I hear or read incorrect usage. Many times I've heard the British Prince George referred to as Prince William's oldest son. He's not the oldest son. He's the older son, since there are only two sons. He's the oldest child of the three children.
I guess I shouldn't ignore the related error concerning usage of more/most vs -er/-est. An adjective of one syllable or two if the second is a "y" gets the suffix, while words of two syllables or more are preceded by more/most.
Sally is the most beautiful of the ten girls in her class. She's even prettier than Ann.
Do these grammatical mistakes bother you? Which common mistakes do you find most annoying?
For those who have learned some Bible, the most well-known prayer by a woman was when Chana/Hannah prayed in Shiloh. I'm a longtime resident of Shiloh-- more than forty years-- and well over twenty years ago, I started inviting women to join me on Rosh Chodesh to pray Hallel and Musaf together.
Ancient Tel Shiloh is the exact location mentioned many times in the Tanach/Bible, where the Mishkan/Tabernacle rested for close to four hundred 400 years. שילה הקדומה Shiloh Hakeduma, Ancient Shiloh is a well developed, attractive archeology site with a gift shop and snack bar. It's possible to arrange tours or tour on your own. There are activities for those of all ages. For more information +972-2-5789111 visit@telshilo.org.il.
I've been writing haikus every morning for years and have a facebook group where I post them. Since the war against Israel began, many of my haikus are political, but some just deal with ordinary life. I'll include some of them here.
Honestly, I recommend writing haikus to learn how to express yourself with a minimum of syllables and lines. As I said in the title here, just three lines, five syllables, seven syllables and finish with another five syllables.
If you click Hearing Aids Report #6, you'll get the links to all the previous posts about my hearing aids.
One of the wonderful things about living in Shiloh is its swimming pool. The "icing on the cake" is that it's less than five minutes' walk from my house. I just cross the street and walk down a path... and there it is.
Since Shiloh is a religious community, we only have what's called "separate swimming," different hours for males and females. To make that even better is that we have adult/18+ hours, too. They are the first couple of hours in the morning and the last hour in the evening before it closes for the night.
The location was really well-planned, besides being a few minutes from my house. It's on the eastern side of the neighborhood, so the strong morning sun is cheerful and warms us up. It's just a summer pool. As you can see, it's in the open, not in a building. Every year we yearningly talk of getting it enclosed... maybe some day...
I exercise in the pool, hydrotherapy of my own sort. Basically, I dance in the water and do the warmup exercises I learned when younger, including from Alan Wayne.
There were two subjects for complaints. One was that the meetings was too late, and another was that it was too early, some members were hungry, because they hadn't had time to eat dinner.
