16 Tishrei/4 October, 2009

Pretty mellow day today, getting my strength ready for grading coming tomorrow. My favorite part of the day is a toss up between going for a walk in the afternoon in a nice sunny almost summer weather, listening to my iPod with my hair all shiny and playing dominos with my parents. I haven’t played dominos in so long. We still have a set Sasha and I played with as little kids. I even managed to make “fish” in one game.

Can’t wait for an episode of “Brothers and Sisters” tonight. Kevin and Scotty just make me smile. Scotty is too adorable.

Exodus WTF moment of the day: there wasn’t anything that really jumped out at me in Exodus 11-15. It was a straightforward account of establishing of Passover and the tenth plague, leaving Egypt, parting of the sea and the miracle of sweetened water. Although, God made people collect silver and gold, weirdly. It actually says “so they plundered the Egyptians” (12:36) in a in the next chapter. So they not just collecting all the gold right before they leave, it feels like extortion. Israelites also left “armed for battle” (13:18), which does not necessary means armed with weapons but still, not exactly a poor showing.