u/DapperCarpenter_

What's up? My name's Brian. I live in the Beverly Hills area of Los Angeles and am training to be a rabbi in the Conservative movement. I speak English and Spanish, and am learning Hebrew. When I asked a friend to give five adjectives to describe me, I got "Introspective, reserved, intellectual, grounded, empathetic". I like to play piano, read and write poetry, compose music, and go bowling. I've worked as a private tutor, for Powell's books at their warehouse in Portland, and for FedEx lifting the overweight and oversized packages.

I love to cook and have on many occasions done soup from scratch when friends are sick. My challah and braised brisket are divine. And I love making comfort foods like grilled cheese and tomato soup. Those are just a taste (no pun intended) of the things I cook.

Two truths and a lie: I had two brain surgeries before turning 10, I've bowled a perfect 300, by age 13, I could read at the college level.

So, at the end of Season One, Rebecca admits to Ted what the viewer has known since the first episode—that she hired Ted because she hoped his inexperience with the sport will run Rupert's beloved Richmond FC into the ground. I just thought (literally two minutes ago) to ask the question—what was Beard's reaction to this?

Rebecca also says in her confession that she didn't care who she hurt in her pursuit of vengeance against Rupert and the harm he caused her. This means that the hit to both Ted and Willis' credentials as competent athletic coaches was more than the price of doing business—it was the whole point. Her plan relied on them to fail spectacularly and for their professional (and private—as we see with the photographer taking photos of Ted and Keeley) reputations to be ruined.

Obviously, Ted forgives her for the betrayal. But it wasn't just Ted who uprooted his whole life in the States to move to England and become a football coach. Willis did, too. Given his tendency to take things a little more personally and hold grudges, I have to wonder what it was like for him to learn that he too was hired specifically because he lacks the skills to manage a successful football team.

Question: I want to incorporate Ketores and Korbanos into my mincha practice, but the congregation I attend doesn't recite these items. I still want to daven with a minyan. I start quite a bit before the minyan start time, for though the parts in Mishnaic Hebrew are easy enough to read, I'm still slow reading the Aramaic. This leaves at minimum a few minutes before my finishing that section and Ashrei. Is it hefsek to greet people (or say anything at all) during the intervening time? Must I remain silent until Ashrei?

Thank you!

So, I'm listening to the series for the first time. I never read the books before. I want to first say it's a testament to the quality of Collins' writing that, once we enter the arena, two pages didn't go by without me wanting to vomit. I attribute that to the fact that I'm a month and one week from turning 27, and thus the horror of high-school aged children fighting to the death disturbs me on a much deeper level.

As an aside, I can't imagine what it must have been like to read about the children while at those ages. If you were Katniss' age reading the book, let me know. Was it as disturbing to you? I recall not being disturbed by all the death and child soldiers in "Harry Potter" when I read those books while aged 5-8. I remember waiting for that last book to come out. The violence always seemed more distant. Happening to people much older. I was sad when those characters died, but not disturbed the same way I am know thinking about how young everyone is.

That brings me to "Mockingjay". 451. As in, Fahrenheit 451. The temperature at which paper catches on fire. That's the significance of Squad 451. It's the spark. I didn't put those dots together until a chapter and a half after the name was introduced and I feel slightly foolish. It's very good world-building and an inspired choice. But I didn't notice it at first. Which is probably a good thing. It blends in well.