All the Appliances

 At 3 in the morning, our electricity shut off. Shifra woke me up to go check the electricity box. I picked up the one that fell, and tried to go back to sleep. Fell again. 

In the morning we were able to test it out (once I was awake enough). It turned out it was the refrigerator that was causing it. To bring someone in to look was about 300 shekel, and the fridge was about 5 years old (we got it second hand). We decided to just bite the bullet and get a new one. 4500 shekel later, we have a beautiful brand new fridge, and I believe the most expensive thing we ever bought for ourselves.

Tghen, a few hours before Pesach, our car wouldn't start. Roadside assistance came, and installed a new battery. 850 shekel later, and our car worked the way it should. 

But here is the kicker. Less than one minute after we put the kids to sleep, Eitan comes running out of the room and tells us there was a noise and smoke coming out of their fan. I ran in, and heard another noise, and smelled the smoke still. I immediately took it out of the electricity. Thank G-D it happened right away and that Eitan was self aware enough to come let us know.

Rough week for our appliances.

I always think about a Ramban that I like that Rav Yishay taught us in Shiur Daled, that each person has a number at the end of the year that G-D decided you will have, which works well because he takes care of us to make sure each family has what they need. So when I got a raise at work this month AND more tax points for kids, I knew it was a matter of time before we had to spend it.

A meaningful moment at teen minyan

 First of all, we had a great discussion last week at us. The Shul needs more programming, and that doesn't work/ is not worth making work with out lives right now. They want 6 weekday activities a month instead of the current 2, plus teen minyan and groups etc. So we made a decision that we would step down at the end of the summer, and once they find new people to be youth directors. Will summarize this role later on, but am forever grateful for the opportunity to connect with our amazing youth. 

2 weeks ago at teen minyan, there was a lot of talking, and even during the Mi Sheberach for soldiers and hostages. Rav Barry lit into them a little bit. The next shabbat, he reminded them, and you could have heard a pin drop. (BTW - I understand talking during davening when you are sitting next to your friend for and hour and a half, but pick your spots). 

There was an event in Gaza this past week, where Barry's son was injured lightly and 4 of his friends were killed. He couldn't attend teen minyan because he was upstairs when his son benched Hagomel. Probably was emotional, I wasn't there. But he made a point to come down in the middle of our minyan, and say the following. "Thank you to all of us who made a commitment to give proper respect and Kavana during the Mi Sheberachs and Tefilla Lishlom Hamedina. I am convinced that this act of Kavana during davening saved my son's life, and prevented a much worse outcome."

Also of note this Shabbat, Eitan and Hadar came to shul at 9:15 and stayed throughout the whole thing. We had a fun friends shabbat with Baruch and Eitan and family. 14 people staying in our apartment, 6 adults and 8 kids. Baruch Hashem. Was amazing, love those people. So much fun.

game 3 finally a blowout but iran is getting into it

Tonight looked like it was going to be a sloppy defensive game for the first few drives. On the first play of the game, they snapped it into the end zone (just a dead play). On the second play, my dad made a bewutiful interception. We couldnt punch in the score though.

A few back and forth defensive drives, and finally, I was supposed to run a short slant, but saw the defense and decided to audible and run a deep slant. Luckily Ari found me for a deep touchdown. My dad caught the conversion, reaching up high to get it. That was how we went into the half.

On the first drive after, I caught a touchdown on a corner route. The next drive, a touchdown on a deep fly.

Then they scored, making it 19-8, and we stepped in their throats with a catch by my dad and touchdown by Dani (conversion by me on a broken play). They needed some deep plays, and I caught my first interception of the year, coming up to catch it. We then didnt score, and they got the ball back.

They drove down the field, and from the ten yard line, i stayed back, waited til the ball was launched and sprinted to catch it and score the 6 on the other side. We elected to not go for the conversion, since the score was already 33-8. This was puxky, because Ari and I had a combined 5 missed calls from the ladies. Apparently from 11 we needed to be home thanks to Iranian launches towards us. A fast drive home, and we made it before anything happened.

Was a really good clean game, I had 4 total tds, one conversion, 2 interceptions, bur mostly I was excited for my dad to play so well. We also had 2 more guys who got hurt, so the 5 of us were on the whole last 3 quarters of the game. 

Time to go to sleep, who knows what the night will bring. הנה לא ינום ולא יישן שומר ישראל.

game 2 football - clutch baby

First we had to finish our game against Green from Week 1. We held our ground, no completions, and easily won, meaning my TD and conversion from the week before were the game winners.

Then the second game started. We started on defense, got some great pass rush (1 sack, 2 batted balls), and an incompletion.

We then started on offense. We drove down the field, had a few catches including one on fourth to get the first down and a sliding catch. Dani caught a deep ball at about the 3, and I scored a sliding touchdown the next play.

My dad had a really nice flag pull to keep a play very short.

On the first play of a drive, we did our play, the down out-pump-go for a beautiful touchdown that i caught up with. 

To start the second half, Ariel threw an ugly interception, and we played bad zone defense to give up a TD.

On defense on a deep pass, I lost the ball in the lights, so just tried to knock it down, but I Vildored it up for the receiver.

Later, we were trying to go up two scores, had the play, and our ball was overthrown.

They had the ball with under two minutes to go, we got a sack but their QB (Ori's FIL) was badly hurt. After a break, we got back on, made the stop (I knocked the ball down and basically gently placed it on the floor on fourth down after what happened before).

We had the ball, and did dumb things, when we just needed to knock time off.

We ran out of bounds.

We threw incomplete passes.

And then, it was fourth down. We tried to get them to jump offsides, which they did but so did we. So it was 4th and 12. I camt across the field, caught the ball past the first, and ended the game. Another clutch way to finish a game by 9 and 14.

Overall awesome game, we are 2-0. Cant wait for next week.