Until now I have been mainly writing to the blog using the Deepest Sender plugin. This entry is being put up by Performancing plugin.
I have no idea if its going to make a difference.

Bris was today.
We named our child Ilan Aryeh Hyman, to be called Ilan, except when he is naughty, in which case the full name will be used ( this is in accordance with  the  parenting maunal Section II Naughty Children, SubSection iv How to address the child).

He is called Ilan because we wanted a name conected to nature ,and the idea of trees - upright, strong etc was a fiting characteristic for him
Aryeh is named after Ruth's Grandfather. I only hope his roars are not very loud, often or frightening.

I managed not to collapse at the Bris (i wa very focussed on the Berachot)
I have lots of new toys to play with and if Ilan is lucky, he will get some of them too.

long day, short post, need sleep.

As I sit here in Jerusalem,an Oleh Chadash having been in the country 2.5 years now, its really hard to directly connect to what is going on.
Its not that i am not trying, Its not that the news is not on every hour, nor that i dont read the papers, but ... its just very hard.

I have never served in the army, the most I do is help with the police, which the last time I did, the most we did was set up a traffic checkpoint. I dont trivialise my involvement with the police, and I joined it for many different reasons, but none of them help me to connect to the country in this hard time.

I have, thankfully, not known personally anyone who has been injured, or worse, killed in the fighting up north. A lot of my friends and colleagues are waiting for their "Tzav 8" to go up north to fight, this is not something I will do.

I have an uncle and other family up north, and I do worry about them, but its still different.Its not my life being directly affected in the same way as those who live in the north they try to carry on their life in Haifa and the north.


I cant tell if I am being selfish, but its odd to feel detached.
I want to feel more attached.
I wanted for so long to come here and be part of Israel, but I can't help but feeling on the sidelines.

The world has its politics and its views. It does not help when the first reaction is over-reaction and lies.
Even today, the Lebanese prime minister was condemning israel for bombing a building and killing over 40 people, when later on he retracted when they found out we killed 1 person and the other 40 were alive and well in underground shelters.
""The massacre in Houla, it turned out that there was one person killed," Siniora told reporters. "They thought that the whole building smashed on the heads of about 40 people... thank God they have been saved"

Even the "respectable" agencies are stirring.

On Saturday Reuters filed a story, along with a photo which had blantantly been manipulated.
They later removed it and "apologised"
The article can be found on the reuters site.

Its a hard time for Israel right now. It needs your help, your prayers, your support.
It does need you to pay attention. It needs you to remember why we are here.
As the weeks Parsha says " its a land of milk and honey", and its important to remember why we are here.

Having spent the past few days running between home, hospital, shops etc, real life, as you may say, begins again.
Ruth and the baby came home today.
I am not entirely sure we know what to do, so a combination of sleeping, feeding, changing now begins to find out quite why he is crying.

He let us sleep for a few hours this afternoon, but, as many people have told us, all they do for the first few days is sleep.

We're parents.
Baby Hyman was born on August 1st at 0912 in the morning.
He weighs 3.8Kg and look like ... www.aaronandruth.com/photos and then select "Master Hyman's first day in the outside world".

The moving of aaronandruth.com is complete.
Its now hosted at www.dreamhost.com and I will begin working on rebuilding the site soon.

The blog is staying here though, so there is no need to panic.
Photos and stuff will be up next too, then i might think of something to actually put on the site.

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Ok, so i missed most of Pesach writing on here, but never-the-less, pesach is over.
Of course, if you are reading this anywhere else, outside of israel, you still have another day to go.
I could take the approach which says that you are lucky to extend the chag one more day, but, instead, I'll just tell that i've had bread and you still have to wait

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to Ruth
Happy Birthday to you


(for those who did not guess, It is Ruth's Birthday )