I just read this on facebook posted by a friend of mine and it is HILLARIOUS!

Enjoy!! 
 

Once again this year, I’ve had requests for my Vodka Christmas Cake recipe so here goes. Please keep in your files as I am beginning to get tired of typing this up every year! (Made mine this morning!!!!) 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 cup water, 1 tsp. salt , 1 cup brown sugar, Lemon juice, 4 large eggs, Nuts, 1 bottle Vodka,  2 cups dried fruit.


Sample a cup of Vodka to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the Vodka again to be sure it is of the highest quality then Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point, it is best to make sure the Vodka is still OK. Try another cup just in case. Turn off the mixer thingy. Break 2 eggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Pick the fruit up off the floor, wash it and put it in the bowl a piece at a time trying to count it. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaters, just pry it loose with a drewscriver Sample the Vodka to test for tonsisticity. Next, sift 2 cups of salt, or something. Check the Vodka. Now shit shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don’t forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the window. Finish the Vodka and wipe the counter with the cat. ♥

I may have written this story in a previous post, or not. I know that I have shared this story with several people and I just thought I would share it here as well. I think it has more meaning to me today, considering what is going on in Israel right now.

We arrived in Israel early in the morning on our first day. The actual “trip” wasn’t starting until later on that day. Our group took a bus from Tel Aviv up to the Tiberias to the hotel. It was too early to check into the hotel. We left the hotel, went for lunch and then went to a woman’s only beach area to relax in the Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee).

After going back to the hotel, we were able to go to our room, take a shower and get ready for our first class and then dinner at the famous Deck’s restaurant overlooking the Kinneret. I have already posted about the food from Deck’s and the amazing meal we had.

After the meal, they had a DJ playing music and they officially welcomed us to Israel and the amazing 9 days that we had ahead of us.

They started with the song Halleluyah and then the hora’s started. I was standing and clapping and started to cry. It was the first time that day that I really felt like I had “arrived” in Israel. It was such an incredible feeling it is hard to describe in writing. At some point I found a friend from the group and we just looked at each other and hugged each other. She was crying as well. It was everything, seeing 170 women from 5 different countries dancing together as one, that we felt like we had arrived.

I have been trying to post the actual video from Decks but everytime I try to copy and paste it to this post, it posts another video.

Here are the words to the song…it is such a beautiful song.

Have a peaceful Shabbat everyone!

Hallelujah to the world
הללויה, ישירו כולם

Hallelujah, yashiru kulam
Hallelujah, everyone will sing
במילה אחת בודדה

Bemila achat bodeda
With one single word
הלב מלא בהמון תודה

Halev male bahamon toda
The heart is filled with much gratitude
והולם גם הוא: איזה עולם נפלא

Veholem gam hu: eize olam nifla
And it also pounds: what a wonderful world
הללויה עם השיר

Hallelujah im hashir
Hallelujah with the song
הללויה על יום שמאיר

Hallelujah al yom sheme’ir
Hallelujah for a day that shines
הללויה על מה שהיה

Hallelujah al ma shehaya
Hallelujah for all that has been
ומה שעוד לא היה

Uma she’od lo haya
And all that is yet to come
הללויה

Hallelujah

Hey everyone,

Well, I couldn’t do it – 30 posts in 30 days. I tried, and then on Monday night in the rain, my trunk crashed down on my head and while it didn’t knock me “out”, when I came home, I wasn’t in any mood to write that night.

Last night I hosted the first of a new class taught by my Rebbitzen and then one of my friends stayed later and by that time, my head was still hurting so I didn’t write.

So, it will have to be 28 posts in 30 days….I am back today.

I am still working on my office purge and came across a folded up piece of paper in my piles of “stuff”. When I opened it, it brought a smile to my face.

On the last night in Israel we had a banquet at this restaurant called Gavna. It is a restaurant in the area of “the Gush” if you are Israeli, you may know of the area. It is an open air restaurant with amazing views. It is a dairy restaurant and the tables were filled with all kinds of salads, dips, and so much more. There was also this amazingly good lemonade, which of course the bees just loved to feast on. I guess that is what you get from an open air restaurant in the middle of the nowhere.

During the banquet Lori Palatnik, Ken Spiro and a few others had a chance to thank us for our participation on the JWRP TAG 12 trip, and then each city had a chance to thank Lori, their city leaders and each other for the most amazing 10 days that you can imagine.

Some of the cities sang songs and made up dances (the chicas from Mexico were good at the singing and dancing). One of the ladies in our group started putting a poem together and we all helped put it together.

Our group thank our Rebbitzen’s with our own personal thank you, and then we had a chance to thank Lori and her team:

There once was a woman named Lori,
Who dreamed to spread the word in its glory.
A chance to explain the Torah,
To us she was the Morah (Teacher).
In all, an amazing story.

To take women from all over,
To Israel to stay over.
For us all to learn and explore,
Igniting a desire to learn more.

An experience beyond description,
Even with illness, we got a perscription.
The Jewish journey she wants to show,
to help us transform and grow.

With learning such a pleasure,
We are all taking this home to treasure.
To JWRP and Lori, thank you.
For allowing TORONTO to be part of the story.

There was this amazing woman on our trip named Suzie, and here is her story at Gavna: