According to the long list of orders for the care of the puppy, we are supposed to tie up the dog next to our bed every night so he won’t pee in the house.  It is the only rule we are incapable of following.  

But this leads me to another issue.  Our sukkot reading last night was peppered with Jewish ritual that I knew well but didn’t want to participate in and felt suddenly that it was imposed upon me.  Suddenly I remembered again why I gradually left religion after I moved to Israel.  In the diaspora it is a deliberate choice, one I made every day.  Here it is foisted upon me.