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 Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:28 pm
Chana stopped and smiled. "Y'know...I'm not really sure why the candles myself. Especially since there's so many throughout the religion. Maybe it's a way of remembering the burnt offerings that...ah...fell out of style," she thought out loud. It wasn't something she'd ever thought about. She'd always accepted that certain candles were lit at certain times.
"Maybe not in the end...but one of the ten main commandments is to honor the Sabbath. By this day and age, that means lighting the candles," Chana replied with a shrug.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:37 pm
Joliette nodded "So do you burn candles every sabbath the whole year through? or just the ones around the holidays?" she was curious, sure this religion was not her own... but it never hurt to know about someone you'd be spending the rest of your life around
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:41 pm
"Every week," Chana confirmed. "In fact, they should be lit before the Hannukah candles," she added. It might seem like a bit of random trivia...somehow everyone always asked her which was lit first. She accepted the fact that people were intensely curious creatures, and that people liked to see how different lifestyles compared to their own.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:47 pm
Joliette nods "I see, what else do you do.. besides prayers that is" she knew there were many prayers in every religion. Besides that it seemed like a good way to get to know Chana, talk about something that Chana appeared to have interst in and cared about
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:52 pm
"What do you mean, what else do I do? Do you want me to list the holidays? The basics? There's a lot of things either way." Chana scratched her head, uncertain what to say.
"Well...there's usually a morning and an evening service each day. Torah is read on Monday, Thursday and Saturday mornings. Saturday evening is the Havdalah service--it's the shortest of the lot. Probably because Saturday morning is the longest. Haftarah is also read--that's readings from Isaiah and such, written in a time when Torah was banned. That service traditionally ends with Kiddush and Motzi and everyone goes to have lunch." Chana glanced over to Joliette. Was that too detailed?
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:54 pm
Joliette blinked, she had no idea what the Torah was exactly.. "Anything else fun sounding? Like activities kinda thing?" she asked sheepishly, she wasn't one who liked to sit through prayers
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:01 pm
Chana blinked. Oh. Different kind of information. Fun. Well...it always depended on your interpretation...
"I suppose the most fun holidays are Purim and Simchat Torah. Purim's usually in March, and it celebrates the Jews not being exterminated thanks to Queen Esther's wits. That service is fun because you're supposed to "boo" whenever the name Hamen is read. And you dress up. And I think you're supposed to get drunk." Chana shook her head remembering.
"Simchat Torah is the last day of Sukkot, the harvest festival...so it's usually in late October. That's when the scroll is held high, danced with, and rerolled. Deuteronomy is finished and Genesis is begun again." She shrugged. That's what the most basic "fun" was. There were always embellishments though...a 6'4" male cantor dressed up as Glinda the Good Witch of the North came to mind.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:06 pm
Joliette smiled softly and nodded "Those sound fun and amusing, I could only imagine the raucus made with the booing. Outside your faith what do you like to do?" ok she was curious she'd admit, but perhaps if she got to know Chana, she wouldn't run from Joliette after two moments every time they encountered each other
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:09 pm
Chana laughed, really starting to relax around Joliette. The woman really wasn't so bad...
"I don't know if you'll believe me, but I don't do much outside of my faith. I've been a youth director, a counselor, an assistant unit-head..." she grinned broadly. This was just the stuff since highschool.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:13 pm
"I dont know how you could call that not much of anything" Joliette paused "After all you are touching the lives of others. A youth director? sounds to me like you like working with people, coordinating things and helping them. Thats hardly nothing.."
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:15 pm
"But you said outside my faith. I was a temple youth director. Yeah I touched lives...I hope I made a difference." Chana shrugged. There was a lot more paperwork and phone calls involved than kids...except where it was possible and encouraged to have the kids do the work.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:21 pm
"Sometimes I think even the things that are supposed to involve people have the most paperwork of all. I don't really know, I stuck myself into photography and journalism, and stayed there, well pretty much till I got trapped here" she smiled weakly "David.. Chubbs... he worked with kids he tried to keep them off the streat and teach them new things, he was coming here to raise money for them, to build a new gym..."
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:25 pm
"I think paperwork is the bane of most existences," Chana commented. "But that's so sweet...who is...um...Chubbs?" The name sounded familiar...but it was gone again. Chana had the vaguely unsettling feeling that she really should know who this was.
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:28 pm
"David is your downstairs neighbour" she said with a soft smile "Well one of them, I started living with him a few days ago, about the time I changed... Chubbs is his nickname"
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:33 pm
Chana shook her head at herself and rested a hand on her forehead. "Figures. I bet he'll be the last person I meet," she said, side-stepping the fact that Joliette was also living below her. She looked up at the other woman. "Maybe you can tell him I'm sorry if I've woken him up late at night? I really haven't meant to...I've just had trouble sleeping." It felt a little awkward to ask Joliette to take a message like that...even stranger to ask her to take an excuse...but Chubbs had a right to an apology, even if he hadn't noticed.
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