Post-Rosh Hashanah Thoughts

• I generally try to make sure before I make Kiddush on Shabbos or Yom-Tov night that I've learnt a timely Sicha
  (Teaching on the Torah portion or the like) . . . It started as
  necessity when running the Shabbos meals in Venice, Warsaw and Vilna .
  . . The first night I sat down to learn the Sicha right before
  I left for the meal. The second night, I reviewed something I had
  learnt earlier in the week, and in the past as well . . . .
  When
  repeating the sicha by the meal the first night, it seemed to almost
  flow . . . The second night, despite the better preparation . . .
  
• It's impossible to have a Rosh Hashanah with out Chassidus.
• When
  looking for people to blow the Shofar for, I realized the essential
  difference between Californians and the rest of the world . . .
  "I'm
  so sorry, but I'm not Jewish -But I want to wish you a happy New Year.
  "
  -Compare that to a New Yorker . . . "Jewish? No! I'm
  Italian."
• As well, I met a Russian from Mogeliv Podolski my Great-Grandmother's home town, a lady who heard the shofar that morning in Miami, and a "kabbalist"