Yesterday, Sunday, was my first day of rabbinical school. Although I had trouble sleeping on Saturday night and had first day of school jitters all day yesterday, classes were pretty cool. I felt as if I was in Jewish day school for big kids. I will post my schedule on the website as soon as I get around to it, but I had two Hebrew classes back to back, a Bible class, and a Liturgy class. For my Hebrew classes, my level (Kitah Gimmel) has the head of the Hebrew program, Zohara, who is both nice and funny. I can tell that she will make classes very enjoyable. I then had a teacher named Ruti for Bible who does not speak English very well and therefore speaks verrrrrrrrrrrrry slowly. The class is also at a hard time of the day, right before lunch, so many of us were tired during this hour and a half. Then we had Moshe for Liturgy who we will also have at the end of the week for rabbinic literature. Liturgy is a class all about prayer, the style of prayers, the types of services we will lead for all holidays and life cycle events. It is exploring the different prayer books and learning how to lead services on our own. This class seems fascinating to me. After class I went power walking with Lauren and Rose which was much needed since we were all feeling a bit overwhelmed and the weather is turning quite nice at night. Sundays are long days where we have class until 4:15 p.m. That is a long day! Then I met up with David after he came home from work and we went and bought a couple of my books and school supplies. As a treat we got pit and schwarma on Ben Yehuda street and then headed home for me to do homework and get my school supplies ready for the rest of the week and the semester, I guess.

Today I have prayer services in the morning, Hebrew class, and then Bible class. Luckily, I am then done for the day which will feel really nice and really early (1:45 p.m.). Some of my friends are taking an elective after this time but in order to have somewhat of a life, I am only taking one elective this semester on Thursdays and not on Mondays. Usually, Mondays are rabbinic forum days meaning we have to stick around school for meetings until 6:00 p.m. It is a long day but I am looking forward to seeing what my new classes are all about. After swimming my upstairs buddy, Rose, I will come home to relax, do some homework, and make a small dinner, since David will be hanging out with some of the guys for Fantasy Football Night (yeah, whatever that means! As long as he is happy!). Nice day, I am looking forward to it!