10 Things I love about shabbos

1. Friday day power nap. (From 7am until 4pm ;)

2. Pre shabbos bowl of chicken soup and my moms AMAZING broccoli kugel.

3. Friday night walk to shul (and back)

4. 770 Shul Friday night, prayers to G-d and schmoozing with my friends (only after davening, of course :p

5. The shabbos night meal, the one day of the week the whole family gets to eat dinner together, always entertaining, and oh the beautiful singing…

6. My sister’s delicious vegetable salads and my moms yummy cooking.

7. After meal walk, visiting friends.

8. Usually managing to sleep a “bagel” Friday night no matter how late I go to sleep… that would sometimes mean being woken up by my father making Kiddush and me rushing off to shul quicker then a bolt of lightning.

9. “Ufrufs” throwing the candy bags at chosanim (being more carefull since that time I hit the poor choson directly in his face, ouch) and the Kiddush after davening

10. Cholent! Let me tell you, my moms Cholent is to die for!

That’s basically it, from then on its usually sleep until the end of shabbos (got to charge the system for motzei shabbos) Unless of course my chavrusa is in town and wants to learn (smicha)… which is something I am entirely convinced is prohibited on a shabbos day!

Good shabbos to all!

The Observant Jew
Moe and Lenny are strolling home from shul one Saturday morning. Suddenly a cab speeds past, and their friend, Irving, is running frantically behind it, flailing his arms wildly.

"Well," said Lenny, "I never imagined our good friend Irving was a Sabbath violator! Look at him running for that taxi."

"Wait a minute," Moe replied. "Didn't you read that book I lent you, The Other Side of the Story, about the command to judge other people favorably? I'll bet we can think of hundreds of reasons for Irving's behavior."

"Yeah, like what?"

"Maybe he's sick and needs to go to the hospital."

"Come on! He was running 60 miles an hour after that cab - he's healthier than Arnold Schwartzenwer is."

"Well, maybe his wife's having a baby."

"She had one last week."

"Well, maybe he needs to visit her in the hospital."

"She's home."

"Well, maybe he's running to the hospital to get a doctor."

"He is a doctor."

"Well, maybe he need supplies from the hospital."

"The hospital is a three minute walk in the opposite direction."

"Well, maybe he forgot that it's Shabbos!"

"Of course he knows it's Shabbos. Didn't you see his tie. It was his paisley beige 100% silk Giovani tie from Italy. He never wears it during the week."

"Wow, you're a really observant Jew! I didn't even notice he was wearing a tie..."

"How could you not notice? Didn't you see how it was caught on the back fender of the taxi?"

Shabbat shalom.