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A trip to a synagogue on a lonely shabbat

Yeshuasdaughter

Yeshuasdaughter

You know, that one lady we met that one time.
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I went to a Conservative Synagogue in my neighborhood for their Shabbat service.

It was beautiful, and I definitely felt a close connection to God during the service.

After the service, there was a light Oneg lunch downstairs. A lady was nice enough to bring me over a glass, and say the blessing with me, because I felt uncomfortable, like an outsider.

The congregation was very welcoming and friendly to me. I had been there once before, but it was during a bar mitzvah, and so my daughter and I kind of got lost in the big crowd. It was nice to meet the other people who go there.

I will still go to my Messianic Synagogue as my home congregation, but this is a nice one closer to home. But, Conservative Judaism is close enough to Messianic that it feels rather similar and familiar.
 
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Warning – check the laws of your country and state before considering this.

For my 40th birthday I bought myself a big present, a still.

https://stillspirits.com/collections/stills/products/turbo-500-still
This is a Reflux Still, more closely related to a petrochemical refinery than what people normally think of when they think of alcohol. What you ferment is just sugar and water and what comes out is 96% Ethanol. You then water it back down to around 40% and add whatever flavours you like to make whisky or liqueurs.

So I was drinking high quality Scotch for around $2/litre.

I got a request one time through a friend of a friend for a lady who made cakes, the dyes they use on all the sugar decorations need to be made from alcohol. Water will dissolve the sugar and almost everything else is poisonous. Normally to get pure alcohol she had to go and get a customs waiver and then apply to a chemist and wait for weeks to get a 500ml bottle of alcohol that she had to pay through the nose for.

I gave her a couple of litres of double distilled pure alcohol. She didn’t tell me her husband was a cop. He came home, saw coke bottles full of clear liquid and recognised what they were instantly. She said he smelled it, then tasted it, then said “Wow. That’s heaps better than what most of them are drinking.”.
 
Yeshuasdaughter said:
I went to a Conservative Synagogue in my neighborhood for their Shabbat service.

It was beautiful, and I definitely felt a close connection to God during the service.

After the service, there was a light Oneg lunch downstairs. The blessing was said over lovely Berry flavored wine, and you won't believe this, Johnny Walker Black label. I guess they don't mess around LOL.

The congregation was very welcoming and friendly to me. I had been there once before, but it was during a bar mitzvah, and so my daughter and I kind of got lost in the big crowd. It was nice to meet the other people who go there.

I will still go to my Messianic Synagogue as my home congregation, but this is a nice one closer to home. But, Conservative Judaism is close enough to Messianic that it feels rather similar and familiar.

Speaking of liquor, I have been wanting to experiment with tincture making with various herbs. I went to the liquor store and asked for an alcohol that was specifically for medicine making. The salesgirl brought out everclear. I didn't even know that that stuff was legal. I think it's 95% alcohol per volume, and if that's not bad enough, there's a highly flammable warning on the top of the label.

For perspective on how dangerous that everclear is, I was looking around the store and the highest alcohol concentration I could find in any tequila, vodka, gin, whiskey, or rum, was about 45 to 50%. And that was a pretty high amount. Wine is about 10 to 14 percent. The cashier actually warned me not to drink the everclear!

So it will only be for making cough medicine and other things like that maybe just a little dropper full during the winter cold season.

I have nicknamed the everclear, "Uncle Jemima's Pure Mash Liquor", after the famous Saturday Night Live skit.

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Interesting evening, how does Everclear compare to Moonshine?
 
This looks pretty cool! Unfortunately I don’t know much about this/Judaism in general. Could you fill me in??
 
We sold Everclear. These people said they threw it in a punch bowl. I just called it paint stripper. It can make you very sick so please be careful. We only sold 50ml bottle. It was hidden too. We didn't carry 151 rum. Everclear also makes 151 grain alcohol. That's 75.5% proof.

This young guy came in and asked what tequila to buy. I told expensive tequila so he wouldn't get so sick. I think he was going to tequila himself out. I had a roommate who became addicted to rum. It was sad to see, she was a very young female with body image issues. I was unable to give her support because l just didn't know how to talk to her. Not sure where she is. It's sad to see addictions take people down. I have seen three people drop to rock bottom on drugs. One person was addicted to cocaine, another was addicted to crack, and another lost everything due to his addiction to MaryJane. It's a tough lesson but you walk away changed for life.
 
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Aspychata said:
We sold Everclear. These people said they threw it in a punch bowl. I just called it paint stripper. It can make you very sick so please be careful. We only sold 50ml bottle. It was hidden too. We didn't carry 151 rum.
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That's pretty wild right there.
I use 100% denatured alcohol (methylated spirits to the Brits, not for drinking!) as a varnish/shellac remover. It is also an excellent fuel for camping stoves and the vapors can be explosive if mixed with air and ignited--you can make a tennis-ball mortar using this & "serve" a tennis-ball 100 yards. (Or--since we tried ours in town--about half a block.)
 
My older brother and his friends used to drink that everclear stuff once in a while. Mixed or straight! I tried a taste once. Horrible stuff. They used to get it from a friend who worked in a lab.

;)
 
@Yeshuasdaughter - I haven't experimented with alcohol but I sometimes make flavored vinegars. I recently made tarragon vinegar by adding leaves (no stems) of fresh tarragon from my garden to a bottle of white wine vinegar. I let it steep for about 2 weeks and then strained out the leaves and put the vinegar in a sterile bottle. I have a couple of recipes that call for tarragon vinegar and it's hard to find in stores, so I just made my own.
 
Mary Terry said:
@Yeshuasdaughter - I haven't experimented with alcohol but I sometimes make flavored vinegars. I recently made tarragon vinegar by adding leaves (no stems) of fresh tarragon from my garden to a bottle of white wine vinegar. I let it steep for about 2 weeks and then strained out the leaves and put the vinegar in a sterile bottle. I have a couple of recipes that call for tarragon vinegar and it's hard to find in stores, so I just made my own.
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Normally I make acid tinctures (from vinegar), or syrups, as well. I think I'm going to return that awful flammable stuff. It wasn't really what I wanted.
 
Yeshuasdaughter said:
Normally I make acid tinctures (from vinegar), or syrups, as well. I think I'm going to return that awful flammable stuff. It wasn't really what I wanted.
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Maybe you can trade the Everclear for a good vodka. Vodka has very little flavor so it might be a good vehicle for the herbs. If you do make some medicine, please let me know. I'm curious how it turns out.
 
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