It is just after the festival of Sukkot and I am already feeling the onset of winter here in New Jersey.  There is a Yiddish greeting that people say after Sukkot, “Gezunta vinter,” “Healthy winter” which obviously anticipates the coming of the cold. Winter generally gets very bad press in the world as a whole. People talk about someone reaching the winter of his days, in other words, he is ...

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