Purim, but I still need to compare and show!

In my opinion, it was a mistake to choose Avraham Ohayon as a winner. Chony Grunblatt should have beaten him and everyone else by an easy mile.
I don't know why the judges made such a tremendous error. I think it was intended that way. I don't know.

But anyways, just to show how badly Avraham Ohayon did... here is his video up against the one who sang it... Ohad... Never try to copy a song that someone else sings 1000 times better than you. If you do want to sing the same song, then you need to do something to it to make it original and different than the compared singer.

Big mistake. But he is still voted by the judges as the Jewish star.
What a shame.

Here is Avraham Ohayon up against Ohad... You make the decision. Remember also, that the Ohayon one is pre-recorded, while Ohad is raw and live.

Lest video I just uploaded.

From this morning, after the Hamantaschen baking episode... Kovi gets messy.

Hamantaschen idea!

Purim in Gaza... Wouldn't that be an awesome theme for a Purim party.

How you make the atmosphere?
What would people dress up like?

Sonia also came up with an amazing "Josh of the week!!"

We were discussing the Pesach Seder the other day... Speaking about the reservations and how many people to expect at the Seder.
I was trying to stress my opinion that we need to have as many Jewish people at the Seder, because we clearly announce "Kol Dichfin Yeisei VeYeichal", that all who are hungry and don't have where to celebrate the Seder are invited with open arms to join us. Thus we need to have an many people attend with or without registration.

Sonia then said "One thing is for sure. That quote of "Kol Dichfin..." was not made up by a woman of her house. The man most certainly said that one!"

True. True.

Purim preparations!

Kovi helping with the Hamantaschen. It was hillarious!

Making circles.

Designing the hangy things from the walls for our Sunday "Purim in Japan" event.

The mastermind of the whole party... Unbelievable!

Some pictrues

Menny Kein Ayin hora!

Oysh! Beautiful.

Outside of Costco!

The new bed that we bought for Kovi. This is the first piece of furniture that we purchased since we arrived in Cabo one year ago.

And finally... Kovi!

Hershcovich report!

Kovi makes Hamantaschen this morning with his mom!



I will also post pictures, as I'm taking it slightly easy from the work that I need to do... It's a fast day today.

Our Purim party this year!

Oy was I toisty!

We need to spend more time with Kovi.

He is almost two years old now and we need to start giving him the serious Chinuch that he deserves. It's difficult. It means that we need to get off this computer, get away from all of our comforts and focus on him becoming a Chossid of the Rebbe's.

It's so easy to say and think, but I'm still on the computer.

I know, I know. Chinuch should have been thought of and implemented 2 years and 9 months ago already... But we're talking B'dieved.

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Shabbos was nice. We had exactly a Minyan of men. About 28 in total with women and children. But the most novel part of it was that every single participant save for one Iz gevezn a yid! It was amazing to look around and want to scream "Chevre! Ir zainen aleh meineh brider un shvesters!

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Sonia finally convinced me on Shabbos day to take Kovi for a walk around town. He was going crazy at home and just needed to get out. So I took him.
We walked to the park, where he went running around a bit. Then I decided to take him home.

On the way home, I was about two blocks from the house, when I decided to sit down at the corner on a bench just for two minutes. That way, Kovi doesn't need to strain his little gently kiddy feet, by walking too much at a time. It'll also give Sonia two more minuted of calm at home while I am out of the house.

While we are sitting there, some dude comes up to me and tells me "Shabbat Shalom".

Naturally he was a Jewish boy from New York. He actually used to teach secular studies to a bunch of Lubavich kids on Eastern Parkway. I don't know if it was Oholei Torah or not. But he knew all about Lubavich, the Rebbe... The whole Sh'bang.

He tells me that he is staying across the street at some hotel.

I know the hotel. They have a Mezuzah on their door and when I went inside this past Chanuka to meet the owner, who I supposedly thought to be Jewish. I found out that the owner is not Jewish. But they love Yiddishkeit. I had a long conversation with him and he seemed to be a really nice guy, with lots of Jewish people who visit them and stay with them... Even a Rabbi I was told. Wow! A Rabbi!

We chatted a bit. I invited him to come visit us during the week and that was that.

This morning, the guy is knocking at my door.
He comes inside, puts on Tefillin and then he says that he needs to speak to me.

When he finished his conversation with me in the park yesterday, he went into the Hotel and told the owner how he met me.
"You didn't discuss us did you?" the owner asks him, to which this Jew was quite surprised.
"Of course not! We talked about myself and other stuff." This Jewish Neshoma answered, slightly puzzled.
"Oh, good." replies the owner. "We're trying to work on him slowly."

This Jewish guy realized that the hotel was in actuality a Messianic Jew cult. They get together on Friday night and have a live internet feed of Friday night services with a Rabbi from Dalas, Texas.
The Rabbi who hangs out in the hotel is some Filipino Goy who isn't anywhere close to a Rabbi.

What a shocker!!
I couldn't believe it.

Well. I will certainly not recommend others to visit the hotel anymore. I hope they continue to be peaceful and spiritual amongst themselves. If they ever ask me to help them out, I will be more than happy to help and assist them with their 7 Noahide laws. But I am still troubled if they are really the horrible Messianic cult... Two blocks away from us! Oy again!

I am slightly tired, so I will rest. Ober ai ai ai ai ai didi ai yum bum ai ai ai!

Kovi is also the cutest in the ruld.

Amazing song.

Mazel Tov to Zvi, Chayale, Miriam and Chaim on the birth of a daughter/sibling this morning.

On other notes, my sister wonders why newborn babies are called 'bouncing babies'... That's a horrible name for so fragile a creature.
They should be called 'fragile, delicate and adorable babies'

In other news... Nothing much is happening here. We had rainy days twice this week. So in case anyone is thinking that G-d is giving the entire America a horrible winter and we're having a ball with the sun out every day - They're wrong!

We are also suffering through a most "horrible" Cabo winter. We had rain this week. So what if it was warm and it wasn't reaally raining! ... It was a slight drizzle! ... There were just a few drops here! ... It was anyways over the sea and not on the land ...
Who cares? We are also suffering!!

I need to pray to G-d now, so that we can go do some stuff later on.

Benny

Hershcovich report!

Other stuffs going on... In pictures. KEIN AYIN HORA!!! POO POO POO!!! SAY IT!!!

Poischin Bibrocho...





This was a huge bug that was flying around the house tonight. Our cleaning lady killed it thank goodness. It was huge.

That's how big it was. And scary.

We were shopping in Sorianna on Tuesday, when Kovi was suddenyl missing. Turning around to look for him, this is what we saw. Kovi had taken the carriage off the display and sat inside of it, apparently waiting for us to push him.

In other good news, we just bought Kovi his potty. He hasn't yet done anything in it. But it's there waiting patiently.

When we came back from NY several weeks ago, I mentioned on this blog how we lost hundreds of dollars worth of meat, because our electricity was turned off.

Well, lots of the meat that was at the bottom of the freezer was stuck to the bottom the whole time and we couldn't get it out.

With Pinchas at the house, we unplugged the freezer, put the good meat inside coolers and left it overnight. In the morning, he cleaned out the freezer and this is all the meat that we gave to our cleaning lady to pass on to her dogs. the Mexican people eat this meat too. But it's a whole bunch of Fleish.

Pinny with the stash in the back.

Pinny Davvening. Oy Pinny!

Please say Tehillim for a Refuah Shleima for Yosef ben Rina!

Isidra, our new and amazing cleaning lady (really amazing) came over to Sonia with a problem. She had saved all the single socks that she couldn't find a match for.

But after washing all the clothing in the house and checking and rechecking it all, she couldn't find the matches to any of the socks on the table. None of them were close to being a match. She was laughing hysterically. It was so funny.

I've never seen her laugh like that. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time either. We were quite embarrassed.

But Isidra rocks! She is amazing!!!

And finally, the Kein Ayin Hora Poop-diddly-doop! Menny! He's two months and picks his head up now.

Our Cabo'lah class the other night. We had a whopping 6 people attend. 4 of them Jewish.

The next two are my favorite photos.

Menny is awesome. That smile. OISH!!!

Kovi has adapted well to the new baby brother. He loves him so much Baruch hashem. We just need to make sure he doesn't show his love too much. You know, with a knee in the baby's eyes etc...

His hair has grown so long now. It's amazing. He's such a big boy too.

The fish steaks that Pinchas made for us.

Sunday's story

So, while taking Reb Moshe Nunez back to the airport after an awesome and inspiring Shabbos together with him (btw, highly recommended for all Chabad Houses to take him!), the following story unfolded.

We left the house and Moshe wanted to stop of at a pharmacy before he boards the plane, since medication here is so cheap compared to the states and he wanted to buy some sort of asthma medication for a friend of his...

I figured that since it's late and he needs to catch his flight, better we get on the road already, and then I will stop at a pharmacy on the side quickly once we're almost by the airport, in S. Jose del Cabo, which is like 45 minutes from where we live.

We leave the house. About four blocks from the house, I am entering the center of Cabo S. Lucas and I notice a pharmacy right there. There were no parking spots, which is why I myself would never shop there, as I would rather go somewhere where I am able to park.

But with Moshe in the car, I decide to just get the whole ordeal over with. I tell him to run in and get whatever it is he wants, while I circle the block quickly and once I'm back around, he'll jump in and we'll rush over to the airport.

Moshe runs in.

I go around the block.

When I come back around, Moshe is excited. He runs over to my window and yells "Benny! Park and come inside quick! The guy behind the counter is Jewish!!"

The excitement caught on and I rushed around the block, grabbing a parking spot and running over to the pharmacy.

The Mexican dude behind the counter is shy, but visibly excited. He recognized Moshe's yarlmuka right away, and after finding out that Moshe is a Jew, he tells Moshe that he also has Jewish blood.

His mothers mother was born in Israel and all his aunts were born in Israel. But his mother was born in Mexico, so only his grandmother was Jewish...

Moshe explained to him that he's a full blown Jew.

We were rushing to make it to the airport. But I took down the guys information and later on in the day I went and put Tefillin on him.

He was a Karkafta. He has never in his life put on Tefillin. He didn't even know what they were.

We put them on and I took the picture above.

His name is Salvador Gonzalez Parnas. Parnas was his mothers name.

Imagine that!! I would never even think twice to ask such a person if he was Jewish or not, if I were to casually pass him on the street. But Hashem has other plans.

Moshe Nunez walked into this pharmacy, just so that another one of our holy souls can find his way home again.

One Shabbat One World!

The Shabbos is over. It was not what we expected.

It had its beautiful moments. It had its depressing moments.

It all started when we planned with the Marquis hotel to have our event over there. An absolutely beautiful hotel right on the beach of the Cortez sea.

The owner of the Hotel is Jewish and was kind enough to donate to us his function room and one free overnight stay for us.

We planned on flying down Moshe Nunez, who would entertain the crowd with his fascinating life's mission and his musical talents.

We put out the registration.

The hotel was charging us only for the cost of making the food, which was about $35 per person. We told them that we expect about 50 people.

It was 3 days before the event and we only had two registrations. It was a very hard time for us. Emotionally and physically, because Sonia was also busy the entire day preparing the food for this vacationing family.

Without any other options and the hotel's policy that we pay up our entire account with them within 10 days of our event (somewhere around $2000), we had to cancel with them as a venue. I was very upset with the community for that, but... What can we do?!

Instead we did our One Shabbat One World in our very own Cabo Jewish Center on Friday evening.

Moshe Nunez came and he was all the success that it was!

On Friday night, we didn't have the turnout that we expected. We just made a Minyan. The meal was fabulous. Sonia put up some incredible show with her gourmet cuisine and Moshe Nunez inspired the crowd just perfectly.

Shabbos morning... No Minyan.

Motzaei Shabbos we were supposed to have the concert with Moshe. Only like 13 people showed up. I was expecting about 30 or 40... But naaaa! It wasn't supposed to be.

Moshe sang beautifully. It lasted about two and a half hours and everyone loved it. He was amazing.

Sunday mornings airport trip story is up next...

Below is a part of the live internet feed from our concert on Motzaei Shabbos, with a crowd from Salvador and other places across the globe enjoying the evening. Thanks to Moshe Nunez and his website (www.7universal.com).

Enjoy...

Joke I heard from Sonia who heard it from my Mama-Mia

If Adam and Chava would have been Chinese, then we would have still been in the garden of Eden!

Why?

Because instead of the fruit, they would have eaten the snake.

The long update... WOW!

It's been so long since I've last updated this blog. I've honestly meant to update this earlier, but we've been so extremely busy with things that I literally had no time.

And with that... Much has happened these last few weeks.
For one, last week was Gehinom mixed with a pinch of pepper.

A family of 35 people came to Cabo on vacation. They rented 3 very expensive beachfront villa's for a week. So guess how much the villa's costed? No c'mon, guess... More... More... Okay, not sooo much!

$6,600 a night is what the villa's costed. That's lots of mulla.
That was besides for flying down 2 more Bochurim to Shlep everything for them during their 'vacation'.
They must've spent a good $50.000 while they were here for a week.

The good part about it was that they asked Sonia to cook suppers for them. It was nice and they left a decent donation afterwards (decent is always literal).

But I was thinking... If this family would have given us a donation of $50.000 instead of them spending one week on vacation, we would have been able to rent a beautiful, huge storefront right on the Marina for 2 years and make it into our Shul!!! Can you imagine, giving of yourself one week and a Chabad house gains from it 2 years worth of survival. Oysh! The thought hurts me.

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In other news, I had five bowls of Sonia's soup tonight. That's a big number 5!

I will post the rest of my news in other posts, so that nobody looks at a long post and gets bored from it.