Nov. 11th, 2014 09:37 pm
Ein alter Schelm
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muckefuckLast week, out of the blue, I got a message from the Rabbi asking to set up another lesson. When he greeted me at Lyfe Kitchen this evening, he said it had been year. I doubted that. He may be right that it's been a year since the last lesson, but I remembered running into him at Touché a while back. He'd forgotten. The Frenchman he was with is tutoring him now, and he'd completely forgotten that we'd met, however briefly.
As expected, he's forgotten a great deal, but not so much we couldn't make simple conversation. Unfortunately, I was stuck with an inferior pocket dictionary checked out from work, having forgotten my old reliable at home this morning. The only time this really threw us off the rails was when it came to finding the proper equivalent for "marry". I had vague memories of being here before and having look up the distinction between heiraten and verheiraten, neither of which was appropriate for the officiant. (Sure enough, I looked it up in Farrell and the only verb he lists as appropriate for the person performing the ceremony is trauen.)
I told him we'd talk about money later. Things are tough for him now. His synagogue shut down some time ago and I know he'd been gigging for a hospital after that, but he's been out of work for some time now. He's got one child in college and another flunking out of highschool. He tells me that he's "not freaking out" but that he has his days. I can't imagine.
As expected, he's forgotten a great deal, but not so much we couldn't make simple conversation. Unfortunately, I was stuck with an inferior pocket dictionary checked out from work, having forgotten my old reliable at home this morning. The only time this really threw us off the rails was when it came to finding the proper equivalent for "marry". I had vague memories of being here before and having look up the distinction between heiraten and verheiraten, neither of which was appropriate for the officiant. (Sure enough, I looked it up in Farrell and the only verb he lists as appropriate for the person performing the ceremony is trauen.)
I told him we'd talk about money later. Things are tough for him now. His synagogue shut down some time ago and I know he'd been gigging for a hospital after that, but he's been out of work for some time now. He's got one child in college and another flunking out of highschool. He tells me that he's "not freaking out" but that he has his days. I can't imagine.
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