To be assertive does not mean that you will have to start being impolite or to be ill-mannered, but you have to be mindful that you have just enough right to be on this earth and not any different from the rest and you seem not to be afraid, standing up for yourself. What does it...
Sukkos, Pesach, Rosh HaShanah, maybe Yom Kippur. I’ve heard it referred to Purim and Chanukah sometimes, but I think it’s mostly used with the “don’t touch that light switch” holidays. I.e. the biblically mandated ones (as opposed to the rabbinic ones). ...
MEANWHILE, back on the farm:Summer is well along and the lambs are growing well. We are almost done with bottle feeding, all five bottle babies being over eight weeks old, ruminating and able to turn grass into usable energy. That will give me over an hour a day back, what a gift!