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  1. RT @ethanz Family did a great job cleaning up after Thanksgiving. Now double-checking our hospital bags, getting ready for an early night.
  2. @brycegruber Thanks! I've been blogging as the Velveteen Rabbi since 2003, so it was a natural choice for my #twitterhandle too...
  3. Eid mubarak to all who are celebrating, and happy Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating that too!
  4. Gratitude | Thanksgiving reflections on the practice of gratitude. - http://bit.ly/4VHFlG
  5. This week's portion: Hatch | In this week's Torah poem, a new look at Rachel stealing Laban's household gods - http://bit.ly/5Njzuv
  6. Eyes burn, blink away tears / not pregnancy hormones but / pathos of onions. #haiku @Thanksgiving
  7. Another Torah poem published | This week a second of my Torah poems has been published, at @jscribes: learn more - http://bit.ly/4VVyYv
  8. RT @ZeekMag First person account by the woman arrested for wearing her tallit at the Wall in The Forward: http://bit.ly/4EWCF7
  9. @RuthieAA R' Burt is a wonderful teacher! Also a wonderful mentor -- he was my mashpia (spiritual director) for 4 years...
  10. "We're not in control; we have to surrender to what is." (#BaalShemTov, per my teacher R' Burt Jacobson.) Useful pre-childbirth teaching!
  11. @chicagowench That's a lot of cake & champagne! I know what we're planning to celebrate this week; what's on your agenda? :-)
  12. Receive everything with love; then you'll have both this world & the world to come. (e.g. your world will be transformed) #BaalShemTov
  13. Homemade | A response to @readwritepoem prompt #102, which invites poems about food - http://bit.ly/8wcNQW
  14. I just ate a piece of chocolate (to spur my son into motion; I get nervous when he doesn't move much) and now he has the hiccups inside me.
  15. Melusine | I'm delighted to have a poem published in the latest issue of this online journal - http://bit.ly/63qi68
  16. What could be more satisfying than Mexican brunch on a Sunday? (Answer: very little in the world. Mmm. This expat Texan is happy now.)
  17. A Torah Journey with Rebecca | Using R' Shefa Gold's 3-part Torah Journeys method to explore this week's portion - http://bit.ly/8THnAP
  18. Psalm 20: a psalm for childbirth | teachings on psalm 20, which is traditionally linked with labor and delivery - http://bit.ly/2c3yad
  19. This week's portion: birthings | A Torah poem exploring wordplay, pregnancy, & Rebecca - http://bit.ly/2Z4TAG
  20. Paradigm shifting and Hasidut | How to draw on Hasidic sources in the new paradigm of today's religious world - http://bit.ly/3Tf3sZ