Reb ND

Two Jewish moments to share from ND:

1. On the first night of Sukkot, ND declared she was not tired, but in fact was SO tired that she fell asleep in my arms at the table during bentsching. We told her about this the next day and she wanted to try again. So during the second night she sat on my lap, shouted out "I'm not tired," then threw herself backwards into my arms. She did this many many times.

2. Breishit. At school they obviously read a book about creation. She told me they had read about Hashem creating the world. We talked about that a little, how Hashem had created plants etc. Then she said, "Yes, Hashem created the fl... fl... fl.." Obviously she was mimicking her teacher priming the kids to say what was in the picture from their read-aloud. So I said, "Flowers."

"Right," she said. "And Hashem created the g... g... g..."

"Grass?"

"Right. And Hashem created the t... t... t..."

"Trees?"

"No!" with utter disdain in her voice. "The tomatoes!"