…but it was still kind of awful.  Thank G-d for Zpac, which helped me to get back in the swing of things.  Speaking of swines (or the lack thereof), some time ago I went with someone to a (swine-less) kosher farm in upstate New York for a Shabbos – a really cool experience.  Turns out that the ‘farmer’ is a massive talmid chachom who blew my mind with all sorts of interesting words of Torah [1] interspersed throughout the Shabbos meals and some one-on-one chats.  I’m very much looking forward to hearing more from him in the future [2]. 

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