Moved in

We're (mostly) moved in. The living room and kitchen aren't done yet, but our office has most of it's stuff over here somewhere. Moving is HARD work. I'd forgotten how much. So, let's see... I've recently joined a Talmidi jewish list, going to see how they do things, if it clicks with me and all. I keep going to a "not-shul" thing, Stop-N-Shabbat, hosted by Judaism Your Way, which is sort of a post-rabbinic Judaism thing, a "doing things differently from shuls because shuls only get about 30% of the jews out there, we want a cut of the other 70%" kinda thing. It's interesting, and I keep being told that I should talk to Rabbi Brian (just 'cause they seem rather post-rabbinic doesn't mean that they don't hire a rabbi, he's just not authoritative..) about converting under him. I think I may follow up on that, we'll see.

I think, now that I'm at the new place now and all, that I want to try doing the daily prayers, or at least the morning ones. We'll see, but I think that with all of the other changes in, I should be able to affect this one more easily than if everything else was the same..

I think I've slowly changed from really wanting to be part of the Jewish community just to have a community that appeals to me and my basic beliefs (although I think that it a good reason in and of itself) to wanting to have a defined (although not completely defined and limited and all) system that I can use to create/have my own way of connecting to the divine. At first, I could happily of joined Orthodox Judaism, for instance; whereas now I don't feel that I could, really, as it doesn't mesh with my view of the world and the divine. This may sound very confused, I may even be using the wrong words, I'm not a religious studies major (although, for the low price of alot of money, you could sponsor me to be one! hehe...).

Well, off to bed, it's late and I'm sure that my wife would like some sleep tonight.

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