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Club Sheba

@xango

Thank you for your sentiments on the holiest of our Holidays. As I am writing his I have the television on for the evening service which is absolutely beautiful. Again, there is no congregation but in these times we do what we can and make do with what we have. The service can also be seen on the Internet. This is the time we ask for forgiveness for our sins and transgressions and ask G-d to enter us in the Book of Life for another year. The service is done in both Hebrew and English.

@sheba2011
Oh Sheba, I am saddened to hear of your other Aunt’s passing. I couldn’t believe what I read at first. My condolences to you and your family.
Sending hugs and prayers to you Sheba. 🙏🌹❤️

@xango

You brought back memories of my grandma who made chicken soup every Friday for our Sabbath. It was a ritual with me to be there on Fridays just to enjoy the flavor of her cooking and to be there with her when grandpa would leave the house and go across the street to join a small congregation for services. After I became a married lady and would stop at the house she would ask if I was a good cook. I had to tell her the truth that I was horrible. Cooking was not my forte. And she would smile and say, “someday, when you least expect it, you will be a better cook than me.” Of course I can attest to the fact that it still hasn’t happened. But, at least I can smile at the mistakes and can do whatever. I am positive that your chicken soup may not be the same but at least you try. In some respects it may be better and healthier. My grandmother used to add the feet of the chicken to the soup and remove them before serving. I do not do that part. I also use an electric stove and oven in Florida while at the Cape house I use gas. Believe me when I tell you there is a big taste in the gas over the electric. It also takes less time to cook. I’ll never forget the time I made a beef stew for the first time. It said to add a clove of garlic. At that time I thought a clove was the entire bulb. No wonder I had to throw it out. At the time I cried. Today I laugh. Go figure.

@sheba2011

I am so sorry to hear of your aunt’s passing. So many times in life we hear of illnesses and never suspect that a life will be taken. It doesn’t matter what age the person was because death comes in all forms in all age brackets. Even when we feel that death is imminent our heart and brain says differently. It is always a surprise and in most instances never expected. At least not yesterday, not today, not tomorrow. Sometime in the future., maybe. But not now. Think of the good times, the jokes, the times together, etc.. Right now, with everyone on this thread, we are surrounding you with love and hugs. You are not alone. I just want you to know that. I know you are very concerned with your Mom. I know you are there for her and wish you were beside her, in person, at times like this. Take care of yourself and your hubby along with Poppy and your kids. I wish there was a way for me to be at your door. I send you and your family our deepest sympathy and condolescences.

Beekman Farms

@oodiebom, G’mar chatima tova to you and your husband Oodie.  I hope you and your husband will have a meaningful fast. We had some rain last night and a very sunny hot day today. The temperature and humidity has been off the charts. I am ready for some fall-winter temperatures. I was reading your posts, and I am so glad that your husband is getting stronger and better with each day. My right knee give out on me the other day and I had to put my brace on while cooking and baking. Oodie, G’marchatimatova, take care.
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Beekman Farms 1802 ✨

Good Afternoon Sheba, it’s a sunny day here and hope you are having one too with some rain for your garden. Sounds like it will be a busy day for you. I am so sorry to read the passing of your second aunt.As I said before, it’s not an easy part of life we go through. My husband too lost his aunt in Texas, she had been ill for a long time. The funeral was last week and he could not attend. My mother did have a very difficult and interesting life, and there are many stories. She was a very good cook, I really didn’t cook while she was alive. I worked and didn’t want to do anything inside the house. I learned to cook more after she passed. I liked her chicken soup the most, and miss it alot. I tried to make it but, it doesn’t taste the same. Enjoy the rest of your day Sheba, take care.

4 my Aunt. ✨

“Yesterday”

Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be.
There’s a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go?
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong.
Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Why she had to go?
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong.
Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm.

Peace

Peace starts within us — we cannot bring to the world what we do not have to offer.

Often we look at the outside world and find it in a state of seeming chaos or disorder. We feel compelled to transform the situation from one of turmoil into one of peace, yet we are often disappointed in our best attempts to do so. One reason for this is that we cannot bring to the world what we do not have to offer. Peace starts in our own minds and hearts, not outside of ourselves, and until its roots are firmly entrenched in our own selves, we cannot manifest it externally. Once we have found it within, we can share it with our family, our community, and the whole wide world. Some of us may already be doing just that, but for most of us, the first step is looking within and honestly evaluating the state of our own relationship to peacefulness.

Interestingly, people who manifest peace internally are not different from us; they have chattering thoughts and troubled emotions like we all do. The difference is that they do not lend their energy to them, so those thoughts and feelings can simply rise and fall like the waves of the ocean without disturbing the deeper waters of peacefulness within. We all have this ability to choose how we distribute our energy, and practice enables us to grow increasingly more serene as we choose the vibration of peace over the vibration of conflict. We begin to see our thoughts and feelings as tiny objects on the surface of our being that pose no threat to the deep interior stillness that is the source of peacefulness.

When we find that we are able to locate ourselves more and more in the deeper waters and less on the tumultuous surface of our being, we have discovered a lasting relationship with peace that will enable us to inspire peace beyond ourselves. Until then, we help the world most by practicing the art of choosing peace within. Amen! ✨😎

@kittengirl,

Good morning in California take care and be safe. ✨

@shoelady60,

Good day in the ‘burgh. 😘✨Thank you for the chuckle from your mom she is hilarious
and bring such joy with little things.

Lady my Aunt passed yesterday and I am devastated this is my mom second sister to
pass in two weeks. I can’t stop the tears what helps is she was sick and she is my mother
older sister. I will miss both of my aunts my little world keeps getting smaller.

My mother is the baby of the family and we talk every single day. I have something else
going on with my husband’s brother I am not ready to talk about that just yet.
Our children are very upset right now I have to remain calm when I do this thread it
is from the inside of me I don’t have to think or plan. I am alright. ✨

Mom Friday will be here soon. 😎😘✨