Rabbi meeting

I met with the Rabbi wednesday. I'm only blogging about it now because I'm lazy with blogging: something I should correct. Anyways, I'm going to high holy day services there this year instead of Temple Micah; it should be interesting the differences. I forget what he said the differences were likely to be, but I expect them to be different. And that should be good. I'm going to re-read one of the books: God and the Big Bang, writing down questions this time. I also get to read one or two easier A. Heschel books than the one I did read (his last one, published after his death, I believe). That's what I get for just picking up a book by him without first checking with the Rabbi as to whether or not it's at my level.

So, I get to work on my theology that way, and I'm going to be working on my inter-personal / community skills. The fact that I accidentally pissed off both a co-worker and my brother (separate events, thankfully) doesn't help. I need to work on my tact. But anyways.. I do like the people that I interact with at Bnai Havurah, and since I at least recognize the other people, I'm getting comfortable, which is good.

I'm slowly growing my list of people (which isn't a list, per se) that I do my annual teshuva thing with. (sarcam) fun fun (/sarcasm). But I do recognize that it really does help me be a better person, both by being able to get that peer-review aspect of it, but being able to bury my own frustrations and start with a clean slate. Last year I decided to work on lashon hara - gossip. I wasn't too much of a gossip before, and most of it went into my wife's ears if anyone. I'm not sure how much progress I made, however; nor what I want to work on next year. Possibly that again, maybe something else.. Giving/doing tzedakah might be a good one.