Comments on: Amateur Season http://agrosnowman.com/snowmanonfire/amateur-season/ Hal Stern's thoughts on hockey, baseball, writing, sportsmanship and life in New Jersey Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:17:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Tom Chatt http://agrosnowman.com/snowmanonfire/amateur-season/#comment-1185 Tom Chatt Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:34:04 +0000 http://agrosnowman.com/snowmanonfire/amateur-season/#comment-1185 The shehecheyanu is a beautiful custom, to be grateful to have been given life, sustained, and brought to a new season. You also say it over first of each kind of fruit in its season (we've been enjoying figs from our fig tree lately), and when you first wear a new suit. I think "shehecheyanu" has the same root as "chai", life. Some translate it as "who has kept us alive", but I like to think of it more as "who has enlivened us", who continues to cause us to *live* life, "live" being a more active verb. Speaking of seasons, happy birthday my friend! The shehecheyanu is a beautiful custom, to be grateful to have been given life, sustained, and brought to a new season. You also say it over first of each kind of fruit in its season (we’ve been enjoying figs from our fig tree lately), and when you first wear a new suit. I think “shehecheyanu” has the same root as “chai”, life. Some translate it as “who has kept us alive”, but I like to think of it more as “who has enlivened us”, who continues to cause us to *live* life, “live” being a more active verb.

Speaking of seasons, happy birthday my friend!

]]> By: Bev Stern http://agrosnowman.com/snowmanonfire/amateur-season/#comment-1116 Bev Stern Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:52:48 +0000 http://agrosnowman.com/snowmanonfire/amateur-season/#comment-1116 Well said and necessary. Sports help young and old to grow and learn, only if the tenets you set forth are followed. Have a great season. Well said and necessary. Sports help young and old to grow and learn, only if the tenets you set forth are followed. Have a great season.

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