So this is the new year. And I do feel something different.

I was really happy to attend sometimes Congregation Ner Tamid from November of 2012 to Febuary of 2014. I am so grateful that Rabbi Rembaum invited me, and that I got to hear Cantor Radwine singing.

I started reading about Kabbalah in 2006, and then recently I got a chance to check out the Kabbalah Centre bookstore. For my new place, I was looking for a place with a library nearby, and I remembered that a friend of mine, whose name is Joseph Mark Schweitzer, had said that living by Pico is a good place to live, so I decided to ask months ago for being put on a waiting list to live in Pico-Robertson.

The only other place I was considering, and thus considered for, was in Whittier.

I had got a chance to live by Culver City/Santa Monica area previously, and so I welcomed the chance to live free in Los Angeles. Especially since my other good friend, who is also a very good guy, Sergei Virovlianski encouraged me to go to Los Angeles.

Sort of, again.

While I was at Long Beach for two and a half years, I had got a chance to see that the in house library had I believe twenty two volumes of the Kabbalah Centre's red bound encyclopedia, and that really kept me sane and helped me heal.

There, too, I got a chance to read
Jews in the Center
Conservative Synagogues
and their members
edited by
Jack Wertheimer

and it was really eye opening, and engrossing.

I really feel that the seven minutes I spent talking to the rabbi at a Chabad (R. Newman) with another gentlemen was also really, really humbling, and really, really eye opening as well.

I basically go about praying about everything, and while I was in Long Beach I asked the State of Israel how to go about moving there, because I thought I could join the Israeli army as a pharmacy technician, and basically I had to prove I was Jewish, and get myself there.

I tried out for the United States Army at the cut off age, and was told I was too old.

I don't know, the future seems very bright and open, but I basically want to stay humble, and learn, and do things properly, even more!

So basically, here goes:
For me,
no more pork;
no more shellfish;
no more swearing.

And I dedicate that to God.

Also, I ate twenty spoons of sugar today, so far.

Hope your day is sweet, also.

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Sir, thank you so much for fighting the Opiod Epidemic and labelling it as such, and not using the alliterative catchphrase "fighting fentanyl." Janssen Pharmaceuticals only did the world a service with their Duragesic patch, which requires approval before a nurse sticks it on you. As a rape survivor in 2014, the Duragesic patch really helped me with pain management while I was in the intensive care unit. I don't believe the word fentanyl should have been demonized because as a Pharmacy Technician I relate to logic, and I believe responsible parties should be held accountable, and that no addict ever need die from addiction. Thank you, again, so much!