Kol Nidre

Tonight marks the beginning of our Day of Atonement.  The Kol Nidre service, one of my favorites, addresses the vows we made the past year and erases the slate clean.  So that you can start afresh and do an inventory of your values, your treatment of people, your ethical foundation and make new vows.  The music is beautiful.   Tonight we will listen live stream from WQXR to the service from Temple Emmanuel on 5th Ave in Manhattan.  Josh is flying in from D.C. and we'll pick him up. I have cooked, shopped, baked and even planted some new succulents and cacti in pots.  Liz and I fast until tomorrow night.  The guys are less observant and do as they please.  We light memorial lights for our parents (Ben and Pearl Scherer and Jacob Moskowitz).  They burn for 24 hours.  Our meal tonight of course is chicken soup with matzoh balls, roasted potatoes, roasted chicken and chicken wings for Liz, peas and salads.  I've baked chocolate chunk cookies and jelly thumbprint cookies (Pammy and Liz's favorites).  To all of our friends I wish  L'Shana Tovah.