Welcome.
I've established this blog to keep a somewhat coherent log of my travels on the road. I will occasionally offer footnotes (and eventually put them into a glossary!) for those not familiar with certain expressions.
For those who don't know me, My wife of 36+ years and I sold our house in NJ, and bought a CoW (Castle on Wheels), and a big truck to pull it (aka the Bull!).
We are Shomer Shabbos ** This means we will NOT travel to a new (unknown) campsite on a Friday, or drive on Saturday. This is a big issue for us, as for past 10 years we walked to the Shul *** that was less then two blocks from our home.
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So, our first dilemma is easy. What to do if we are in a town with a Jewish community, but not close enough to our campsite to walk?
Second dilemma: Can we still call ourselves Shomer Shabbos, if we DO drive?
Third Dilemma: What do we do when we don't have electricity?
Some of these questions and lots more will be discussed. and answered. Eventually?!
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Today: First Intermediate day of Sukkot. This is the first year in about 20 or 25 years we haven't had a sukka. That's because we knew we were downsizing after living in our home for 25 years, and gave it to a couple new to the area where we moved from.
We did the mitzvah**** of sitting in the sukka, and it felt good.
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* Motze Shabbos (after sundown shabbos, see below)
** Shomer Shabbos: We observe the Jewish Sabbath, from Friday Night Sundown to Saturday night sundown.
***Shul. Place of worship, aka temple, synagogue or for non-jews, a church...
**** Mitzvah . A commandment or law given to us by G-d.
ie, it was a mitzvah for him to donate his time to the food bank!
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