Yom Kippur...

[jbsegal]

Not that I should be putting this off so long, but here we are...

Tomorrow evening is the start of Yom Kippur.

Contrary to all propriety, I'll be working. I'm in the midst of trying to figure out if I can reasonably fast while working 4 shows of Cirque. (It may be doable, if I take 1st lunch tomorrow and 2nd on Saturday, though I suppose I'll have to play it by ear to see if it's wise or not.)

But that's not why I'm here, having not yet shut down my computer and gone to sleep like I really need to...

I'd like to take this opportunity to ask forgiveness from all of you whom I've wronged in any way in the past year. I realize that this is hardly the way the sages intended such forgiveness to be sought; that even if we were to consider this as a letter published in a newspaper or a xeroxed form letter, it still wouldn't really meet talmudic scrutiny.

But it's what I've got right now.

For all that my lameness is probably my most regrettable fault, it's why I'm here doing this now.

L'Shanah Tovah Tikatevu

... and now it's time for bed.

Comments

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

Given that I was thinking of doing the same exact thing, I don't fault you at all. My reasoning was not even distance as much as getting across the idea: I'm not sure how many little things I need to ask forgiveness of my friends for (I've got a lot of friends), so if you read this and have felt slighted by me in the last year, I humbly ask your forgiveness.

In your case, no forgiveness necessary. An easy fast, my friend.

[catya.livejournal.com]

*hugs* nothing to forgive.

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

I'd really rather you did not fast, bunnylove. Perhaps you could simply avoid anything with processed sugar or perhaps "fast" by having only protein, vegetables, water, challah? You're working doubles all weekend ... fasting when you're going to be on your feet for 9 hours each day ...

I love you.

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

Communication with your fellow man is communication, hon. However that manages to happen.

I don't believe you have wronged me, but if there was any, forgiveness is all yours - you are still one of the cooler guys I have ever met.

*hugs* (And I'm with kimberlogic - please don't fast if you're going to be working on your feet 9+ hours per day - that's a good way to emotional/physical meltdown...)

[zogathon.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's anything to forgive... but if there was, of course you're forgiven.

[tcb.livejournal.com]

I don't think the sages would object to anything other than not trying. how it's done, no matter what modern means are used, shouldn't matter.

*hug*

[quietann.livejournal.com]

perhaps we owe each other mutual forgiveness for extreme lameness. It's been almost a year since I've had dinner with you...

[xeger.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I'm certainly not a talmudic sage by any stretch of the imagination, but most of the law that I've seen has a certain practicality associated with it - and falling over because you haven't had the sense to feed yourself [and do need to work in order to do so] certainly isn't practical [or sensible].

[wolfkitn.livejournal.com]

i guess it's good that i'm not scrutinizing talmudically much, lately.

(*hugs!* geeze, if you're lame then i'm lame. let's go out and eat a cheap dinner and then go to a dance or something when you get back. take good care!)