Quiet day

[vettecat]

Today was the first Sunday in a very long time that I've been home. I was able to catch up on a lot of little things - sweeping, vacuuming, folding laundry, scrubbing the kitchen sink and stovetop, etc. It was really nice to have a large enough block of time that I could make some real progress. (Most evenings lately, by the time I leave the store, pick up sdavido from work, come home, make/eat/clean up from dinner, go through mail, etc. it's already after 10, and I don't feel like starting many projects at that point.) I felt like doing something a little different for dinner, so I made omelettes, which I haven't done in a while. Then we went and dug out the car. The center of the driveway had been shovelled, but not our space - the snow was about up to mid-thigh on me. Fortunately it was light, fluffy snow, so it didn't take too long. Tomorrow we go back to normal, but it was nice while it lasted...

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[kressel.livejournal.com]

It's not really a formal seder at all, but I don't know what else to call it. We gather together the 7 fruits of Eretz Yisroel and a little wine and eat them in the order of the brachos. My husband usually says over some relevant divrei Torah as well.

There are actually two formalized sedarim for Tu b'Shvat. One comes from the Arizal and the other from Nathan of Aza, who was the chief promoter of the false messiah Shabsai Tzvi. We don't know which seder is whose, so we stay away from all of them.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. I was thinking of something else - my mom teaches Sunday mornings at a Reform temple, and they had a big Tu b'Shvat seder planned for this past Sunday, complete with the "four cups of juice." She was kind of uncomfortable with the whole thing, so she was very happy it was cancelled due to the snow.