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		<title>Show and Tell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was given a lovely gift (of my choosing and her suggestion) by my rabbi on the day of my conversion &#8211; the three volumes that make up the series &#8216;Rashi&#8217;s Daughters&#8217; by Maggie Anton.  I&#8217;m part way through the first one &#8216;Joheved&#8217; and I must say, I love it.
The combination of Jewish history, human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shavuatov.wordpress.com&blog=4422956&post=1164&subd=shavuatov&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bat Mitzvah, anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was my first day of work following my conversion.  I should have been in the office on Friday, but I couldn&#8217;t get in to the office because of the snow!
Anyway, there I was this morning, sitting on one of several trains (what a journey in I had), coat open, Magen David pendant on show.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shavuatov.wordpress.com&blog=4422956&post=1162&subd=shavuatov&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Overwhelmed with joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, before the Aleynu, me and my new Jewish twin B experienced our admission to Judaism celebrations in shul.  The weather put up a huge fight to prevent people making it in, and some people who live in the Sussex countryside were indeed cut off by the snow &#8211; but even so, many, many people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shavuatov.wordpress.com&blog=4422956&post=1155&subd=shavuatov&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m one of the family now!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurrah! And Shabbat Shalom!
As some of you will know, things went very well yesterday &#8211; I am now one of the global Jewish family and it feels fantastic.  Quite honestly, I am still on a high (although some of that excitement arises from me being snowed in and unable to get to work today!).  And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shavuatov.wordpress.com&blog=4422956&post=1145&subd=shavuatov&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yesterday, today was tomorrow&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it truly was.  And I thought up that little gem of a title at about 5.30am, whilst trying to explain something to my OH, who is crazed with flu and just couldn&#8217;t make sense of it.  But it does make sense, doesn&#8217;t it?
Well, here we are.  Today, I feel as if it&#8217;s the last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shavuatov.wordpress.com&blog=4422956&post=1135&subd=shavuatov&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two sleeps to go &#8211; and two pictures</title>
		<link>http://shavuatov.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/two-sleeps-to-go-and-two-pictures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh goodness me.  The number is getting VERY small now.
Last night, I was supposed to be out with a friend, but he had to postpone at the last minute.  So, ever the one to take advantage of a bit of spare time, I thought I&#8217;d take the chance to get some reading in before Thursday.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shavuatov.wordpress.com&blog=4422956&post=1124&subd=shavuatov&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enough hours in the day? I don&#8217;t think so!</title>
		<link>http://shavuatov.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/enough-hours-in-the-day-i-dont-think-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would say that most people in my shul now know that me and my good friend B are meeting the Rabbinic Board this week.  I was trying to keep it under wraps until the &#8216;grand reveal&#8217; on Shabbat (just in case something went wrong, you know?), but that&#8217;s now all fallen by the wayside.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shavuatov.wordpress.com&blog=4422956&post=1117&subd=shavuatov&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chappy Chanukkah! Shabbat Shalom!</title>
		<link>http://shavuatov.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/chappy-chanukkah-shabbat-shalom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nearly here folks, that minor yet majorly celebrated festival of candle-lighting starts in just a few hours!
My chanukkiyah is all ready for lighting tonight, blessings laid out for the reciting of &#8211; I think I&#8217;m sorted, except I need to get some matches, a fundamental part of the proceedings, I think you&#8217;ll agree.
My calendar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shavuatov.wordpress.com&blog=4422956&post=1111&subd=shavuatov&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Very strange dreams indeed</title>
		<link>http://shavuatov.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/very-strange-dreams-indeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, something is obviously on my mind right now &#8211; I wonder what it could be?!! Why do I know this?  Well, when things play on my mind, I tend ot have extremely strange dreams.  It won&#8217;t take a particularly high IQ to work out what this &#8217;something&#8217; is&#8230;
(1) (Last night)  I am trying to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shavuatov.wordpress.com&blog=4422956&post=1105&subd=shavuatov&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here comes Chanukkah!</title>
		<link>http://shavuatov.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/here-comes-chanukkah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very exciting!  There&#8217;s lots of things going on at my shul this weekend, not least a family Chanukkah celebration with food, dancing, games with doughnuts and latkes (the mind boggles, for me, at least!), of course candle-lighting (BYO menorah!) and a performance from the Chutzpah Choir, a local group headed up by Polina Shepherd.  I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shavuatov.wordpress.com&blog=4422956&post=1100&subd=shavuatov&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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