אני קושית יפה/I’m a Cute Black Girl

  To me 'Kosher' was just a label put on food to make it more pricey, because a Rabbi watched how the produce was killed and processed and made sure that it was not tampered with or mixed with milk or foods that were not considered Kosher. But it turns out it a bit more…

I think my Judaism library is complete. Well at least it is for now. Now I have enough tools to complete my course and continue with my journey into Judaism. Just briefly read the first page on Sukkot and I just wish I got this book months ago. Now I just need to set some…

Sukkot is coming upon us...and so it is only fitting that we learn about it...hence why we touched on it last night... As a child when the Shul celebrated Sukkot and we feasted under a Sukkah, I never really saw the connection of it to Hashem's words and the Rabbinical Study of it. I just…

My year of learning all things Jewish and preparing myself for my Jewish Life is drawing to a close and soon I will be actually Jewish. Well as a kid I always considered myself to be Jewish...but it isn't quite the same as how I soon I will be graduating from Jews By Choice at…

And so we are embarking on the days of the Holiest Festivals of Judaism .   on the 25th of September we say goodbye to Elul 5872 and celebrate the new year and month Tishrei 5783  which happens just about a week later. 25hrs of fasting. Throughout the year I have noticed how many of…

Amazon just didn't work out...would cost me way too much and so proved to be the way to go. Got my books from them within 3 days of ordering them. Wish I got them months ago, but hey at least I have them. And soon I will get my other book from  I browsed through…

Today I decided to finally purchase my Amazon basket of books on Hebrew and Judaism. But when I did the google converter and realized that this purchase wasn't so cheap...I mean it was going to come up to just about 3 months of my salary... ...I figured I could look on  and purchased my books fro...

Boy was I the eager beaver in class yesterday! In Hebrew I was willing to practice reading Hebrew whenever I could. Kinda got to a point where I was pretty certain everyone was getting irritated with me, but hey it was my birthday so I had every right to be  Lately I have caught myself…

As this course is drawing to a conclusion I realize I need to put in more work, as I am not up to speed in all my knowledge in reading Hebrew and Judaism. So I have done a bit of a shop on  Sucks how because I live in South Africa and everything will be…

Jeremiah warned of the destruction that would be poured out on Judah. He writes about G-d’s hard dispense of holy anger. At one point G-d says, “I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster” (12:14). A lot of the wickedness that angered God was the constant worship of false id...