Gila at Arundel hotel

Gila at Arundel hotel
Visit with Mercedes

Friday 14 November 2008

Indian connections

My dear Friends
The Sabbath is falling and I am waiting to join some of the Jewish students for Kabbalat Shabbat, the beginning of the Sabbath. While I was in Toronto, I nearly joined a group of Indian Jews from Bombay for the Jewish New year, did not get there becuase I was ill, but for sure will one day.

As I write, I am sitting beside a very nice lady from India in one of the local libraries-she has admired my shirt, which I bought in Toronto in a beautiful Indian shop, where the family who owned it befriended me. So-having also met some Indian Catholics from Kochin, where the Jews lived for thousands of years, I decided to learn anIndian language-start with Hindi, I decided!

Of course Hindi and most of the Indo-European languages derive from their 'Mother' language which is Sanskrit. Like Hebrew, it comes to life when it is chanted, and the script, used in Hindi is fascinating.
I am in a completely new world, and living every minute of it!

More later
Shabbat Shalom
Sister Gila

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I so admire you always wanting to learn somrthing new. Barbara

Anonymous said...

Good to have you back on board. Hindi is certainly easier than Polish.

Hope all is well.
Love and Shalom
Gila xxx