If, however, you don’t want to cook, my second favorite is Seniya. I’ve probably written about this in these pages before (although I try not to peek) but today, as we were eating at Ahmed et Salim’s, as I was rejoicing in my Seniya (which is more or less a hamburger baked in Tehina), it suddenly occurred to me that an eggplant, should baked into it in order for it to be perfect. Together? Separately? Any opinions? Why am i so hungry?
Perhaps only food can comfort in such strange times.
We’re waiting for the great heat to be over with so we can think straight and start making some guidelines for our lives. On a personal as well as a political level, there has to be some externally imposed order if only so we can go on with our lives. We seem to be in a state of chaos. I don’t mean the American government should tell us where to live, although I would like the matter settled, but we ourselves need to decide what we want as a country. It seems to me that Shas, the strange ‘religious’ party founded by the Rav Ovadiah Josef, has led the way in shifting the focus from national and international vision to self-interest, and we need to refocus ourselves.
In this spirit I told my jovial dentist, Dr. Broude, that I simply had to pay my bill before the year is out. He laughed and told me that the only other patients of his who think like that are those from Shechem, who refuse to let a debt float into Ramadan. I insisted, and I feel better. I will begin the new year with no loose ends.
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