Sara, a woman from Kol Haneshema, our congregation, enlisted me to play some music at the nursing home where she works - a pre Rosh Hashanah party for the residents. Figured I would do a mitzvah and either get a jump on next year (or more likely offset some of this year's sins, for the upcoming Atonement). Tried to get Gabriella to come and sing with me but she would not bite.
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| Getting Ready |
It was fun and I think the residents appreciated it, at least those who were aware and awake. Only one or two ambulatory, most everyone very old and infirm. But I connected with a few people - pulled out my one Mexican folk song, La Llorona, for one guy from Argentina, a Dylan tune for a woman who requested Leonard Cohen, some fiddle for a woman whose son is a violinist in the Los Angeles Symphony.
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| Mid Song |
Some interesting stories - one resident a 105 year old survivor of the Soviet Gulag, another a Yemenite who worked as a guard during the Eichmann trial, because the authorities were afraid that Ashkenazi guards would lynch Eichmann before sentencing.
The staff gave me a plant as thanks for coming. All in all, a good way to get ready for the new year.
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