Weather It Is (A Transition)

Good afternoon:

Sometimes, transitions are hard.  For example, there is unseasonably cool winter storm over central Europe. Yet, over the desert of Jordan and Saudia Arabia, low pressure associated with warming spring time temperatures is slowly expanding in our direction.  The two systems are at odds, and during the holiday they will battle back and forth.  The warm air should win out on Friday and Shabbat, but lose out until the end of the Holiday, only to return again for Isra-Hag.

As the systems battle back and forth, there will be a slight chance of showers, but there appears to be nothing standing in the way of a rather pleasant holiday period (as some like it hot and some like it cold, but who really likes it 9 days in the pot!?).

It's very close to Sedar night.  Is it a shame that our quest for freedom must be renewed every year, or is this simply a measure of our strength as a people that the opportunity presents itself again?

You've read from time to time about my wife.  This week was full of work, getting the house ready.  At the end of it all, there is not even a crumb, not even a crumb big enough for a mouse.  While it is true that I got up very early to lend a hand -- and I did what I thought I should and even what I didn't think of, in the end, it is the wife I must say thank you to.

Hag Sameach,

Barry Lynn