Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:06 pm**

Happy New Year.

Posted: **Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:46 pm**

Happy New Year!

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2010 12:23 am**

Happy New Year to them what celebrates it.

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:11 am**

May the new year be both happy and sweet!

!שנה טובה ומתוקה

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:21 am**

Hey, SD!
That greeting in Hebrew looks very familiar...

Back at ya!

Posted: **Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:52 am**

Hahaha, oh yeah, Happy Rosh Hashanah.

--A

Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:34 am**

A very Sweet New Year, everyone.

Dip Your Apple

Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:44 am**

Kesiva ve-chasima tovah!

Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:14 am**

Same-same (as last year).

Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:07 am**

Hey, wait a second...didn't we just do this?

--A

Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:48 pm**

This thread, now in its fifth year, is a Menolly creation. The other is a new one from MsMary.

No harm in multiple wishes for a shana tova. We all want and need a good year, nu?

Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:53 pm**

Happy New Year!! I can't wait to hear about the hangovers ... oy vey!

Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:16 pm**

SD -- what does "nu" mean? I've seen you and Menolly using it and have been meaning to ask. I'm guessing it's Yiddish for "don't you agree?"

Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:50 pm**

Yiddish, yes, and derived from the Russian nu, meaning "well" or "so." Your definition works, but there is more to it.

In [i]The Joy of Yiddish[/i], Leo Rosten wrote:"Nu" is a remarkably versatile interjection, interrogation, expletive.

Nu is the verbal equivalent of a sigh, a frown, a grin, a grunt, a sneer. It is an expression of amusement or recognition or uncertainty or disapproval. It can be used fondly, acidly, tritely, beligerently.

Nu is a qualification, an emphasizer, an interrogation, a caster of doubt, an arrow of ire. It can convay pride, deliver scorn, demand response.

Think of nu as the equivalent of the Canadian "eh."

Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:59 pm**

Or like the American "right?" Okay, thanks!

Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:12 pm**

happy New Year I acually had aday off aswell as most of my clients are Jewish mind you had a long day yesterday trying to get all their gardens done for today

Posted: **Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:36 pm**

Shana Tova!!!

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:58 pm**

As the "Shabbes of Shabbes" (Yom Kippur) approaches, I wish you all a G'mar Chasima Tovah! גמר חתימה טובה
May we all be sealed in the Book of Life with a good seal for the upcoming year.

For those observing...
May you have an easy fast.

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:45 pm**

I echo those wishes to Menolly and to all!

Posted: **Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:20 am**

May y'all have a Happy and Sweet New Year!

"The Maccabeats: (Book of) Good Life"

Woke up and realized yesterday
Think it's a bummer end of the summer
Kinda nervous that we're almost there
At the days of awe

Prayers in a language that I don't know
Standing for hours and hours more
I wish that someone would please tell me-e-e-e
What it is we're praying for

Oh put me in the book of good life
I just wanna live the good life
This could really be a good life, good life

Say oh, we've got feelings that we should fight
Make sure that we're choosing right
Gotta earn my own place in
The book of good life

Time for reflection on the past year
Time to figure out what we're doing here
Replace the guilt with inspiration
And everything is clear

Life in the present, the here and now
Easier than regret and planning out
Living in the moment, lasts for a moment
Got my future to think about

When you're sitting there in shul
Wishing it was over
You gotta take a beat
And let it all sink in

Oh put me in the book of good life
I just wanna live the good life
This could really be a good life, good life

Say oh, we've got feelings that we should fight
Make sure that we're choosing right
Gotta earn my own place in
The book of good life

Hopefully
This year will bring us happiness and peace
Hopefully
Sensitivity to others will increase
Hopefully
We'll open our eyes and think more consciously
Cuz Hopefully
We'll go from where we are to where we want to be

Oh put me in the book of good life
I just wanna live the good life
This could really be a good life, good life

Say oh, we've got feelings that we should fight
Make sure that we're choosing right
Gotta earn my own place in
The book of good life

Oh yeah
Book of Good life
Ooh

Listen
Time for reflection on the past year
Time to figure out what we're doing here
Replace the guilt with inspiration
And everything is clear

Life in the present seems more fun
Easier than regret, what's done is done
Living in the moment, lasts for a moment
Shana Tova to everyone!

Kevin's Watch

L'shana Tovah ~ Happy New Year!