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mamadebI am wearing my new shoes! I wish I could say "sh'hecyanu" but I've learned that you don't say that for leather items.
They were in the office when I showed up this morning, and I wasted no time changing to them.
They're perfect, especially right now. They're black ankle high lace-up bootees, which means that they give me support just where I need it. Also, I have lots of toe-room, which means no blisters.
They're even reasonably cute, which is the best I can ask for with my feet.
Yay!
They were in the office when I showed up this morning, and I wasted no time changing to them.
They're perfect, especially right now. They're black ankle high lace-up bootees, which means that they give me support just where I need it. Also, I have lots of toe-room, which means no blisters.
They're even reasonably cute, which is the best I can ask for with my feet.
Yay!
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Prefect boots?
Date: 2006-01-09 05:46 pm (UTC)(Sorry, couldn't resist the joke.)
I share your enthusiasm over really well-fitting shoes. I'm seeing my orthotics tech tomorrow to be fitted for my new shoes-and-inserts. :)
*uses happy-icon*
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Date: 2006-01-09 05:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-09 06:50 pm (UTC)Hah!
Okay, I did have a new skirt, but I wore it for Shabbat. Also, I had reason to hope but not to know if my shoes had arrived.
Re: Prefect boots?
Date: 2006-01-09 06:51 pm (UTC)Thank you! I've always had good luck with Easy Spirits. I think their wide width lathes fit my feet.
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Date: 2006-01-09 06:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-09 06:55 pm (UTC)I never realized one could say sh'hecyanu for clothes, actually, because when we say it at non-set times it's almost always for food (first farm pickup of the year, first corn, first tomatoes -- which I always feel there ought to be a special *song* for -- etc.).
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Date: 2006-01-09 07:10 pm (UTC)Btw, traditional halacha has a sh'hechiyanu for first fruits (first eating after 30 days abstinence), but not first vegetables.
Re: Prefect boots?
Date: 2006-01-09 07:28 pm (UTC)Sh'hecyanu for clothes
Date: 2006-01-09 07:30 pm (UTC)Magid explained the reason why we don't say it for leather goods.
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Date: 2006-01-09 07:31 pm (UTC)So, is it halachically *incorrect* to say the blessing for first asparagus? Or is it just that no vegetable seemed that much of a big deal back in the long ago, except for the first greens of spring and we call that Pesach. Nowadays I certainly feel the urge to give thanks for the first asparagus, corn, tomatoes, and the local peppers, eggplant, carrots, or whatever.
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Date: 2006-01-09 07:32 pm (UTC)Which would mean you don't say it for strawberries, melons or bananas...
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Date: 2006-01-09 07:38 pm (UTC)You could just say the normal brachot for the plants. It's not the season, it's the first you've had in thirty days. So, say it's a long season fruit, like apples, or pears. You have a pear first of November and say the bracha, and don't have more until the first of December - you still say the bracha.
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Date: 2006-01-09 07:41 pm (UTC)Re: Prefect boots?
Date: 2006-01-09 07:41 pm (UTC)And if you don't mind, could you explain what "sh'hecyanu" means, and why you don't say it for leather but do (inferentially) say it for other kinds of clothes?
Re: Prefect boots?
Date: 2006-01-09 07:43 pm (UTC)Re: Prefect boots?
Date: 2006-01-09 07:44 pm (UTC)*headdesk*
Re: Prefect boots?
Date: 2006-01-09 08:26 pm (UTC)Blessed are you, haShem, our Gd, king of the universe, who has sustained us, given us life and established us for this time.
We say this blessing at the beginning of each holiday, when we perform a mitzvah for the first time, when we eat fruits for the first time in thirty days and when we wear new clothes for the first time.
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Date: 2006-01-09 08:26 pm (UTC)Re: Prefect boots?
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Date: 2006-01-09 08:32 pm (UTC)Re: Prefect boots?
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Date: 2006-01-11 03:35 pm (UTC)That makes sense, and it means