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Since the rise of the personal computer in the 1980s, IBM and other vendors have created PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes which are compatible with the larger IBM mainframe computers. For a period of time PC-based mainframe-compatible systems had a lower price and did not require as much electricity or floor space. However, they sacrificed performance and were not as dependable as mainframe-class hardware. These products have been popular with mainframe developers, in education and training settings, for very small companies with non-critical processing, and in certain disaster relief roles (such as field insurance adjustment systems for hurricane relief).
- 1 Background
- 2 System/370
- 3 System/390
- 4 z/Architecture and today
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Up until the mid-1990s, mainframes were very large machines that often occupied entire rooms. The rooms were often air conditioned and had special power arrangements to accommodate the three-phase electric power required by the machines. Modern mainframes are now physically comparatively small and require little or no special building arrangements.
IBM had demonstrated use of a mainframe instruction set in their first desktop computer—the IBM 5100, released in 1975. This product used microcode to execute many of the System/370's processor instructions, so that it could run a slightly modified version of IBM's APL mainframe program interpreter.
In 1980 rumors spread of a new IBM personal computer, perhaps a miniaturized version of the IBM System/370.[1] In 1981 the IBM Personal Computer appeared, but it was not based on the System 370 architecture. However, IBM did use their new PC platform to create some exotic combinations with additional hardware that could execute S/370 instructions locally.
Personal Computer XT/370[edit]
In October 1983, IBM announced the IBM Personal Computer XT/370. This was essentially a three-in-one product. It could run PC DOS locally, it could also act as 3270 terminal, and finally—its most important distinguishing feature relative to an IBM 3270 PC—was that it could execute S/370 instructions locally.[2]
The XT/370 was an IBM Personal Computer XT (System Unit 5160) with three custom 8-bit cards. The processor card (370PC-P),[3] contained two modified Motorola 68000 chips (which could emulate most S/370 fixed-point instructions and non-floating-point instructions), and an 8087 modified to emulate the S/370 floating point instructions. The second card (370PC-M), which connected to the first with a unique card back connector contained 512 KiB of memory. The third card (PC3277-EM), was a 3270 terminal emulator required to download system software from the host mainframe. The XT/370 computer booted into DOS, then ran the VM/PC Control Program. The card's memory space added additional system memory, so the first 256 KiB (motherboard) memory could be used to move data to the 512 KiB expansion card. The expansion memory was dual ported, and provided an additional 384 KiB to the XT Machine bringing the total RAM on the XT side to 640 KiB. The memory arbitrator could bank switch the second 128 KiB bank on the card to other banks, allowing the XT 8088 processor to address all the RAM on the 370PC-M card.[4] Besides the 416 KB of usable RAM for S/370 applications, the XT/370 also supported up to 4 MB of virtual memory using the hard drive as its paging device.[5]
IBM claimed the XT/370 reached 0.1 MIPS (when the data fit in RAM).[5] In 1984, the list price of an XT/370 in its typical configuration was approximately $12,000; it compared favorably with IBM's own mainframes on a $/MIPS basis; for example, an IBM 4341 delivered 1.2 MIPS for $500,000.[5]
Similarly to the mainframe version of VM/CMS, the VM/PC also created the illusion of virtual disks, but on the PC version these were maintained as PC-DOS files, either on floppy or hard disk. For example, the CMS virtual disk belonging to user FRED and beginning at address 101 was stored as the DOS file FRED.101. The CMS IMPORT and EXPORT commands allowed extraction of files from these virtual drives as well as ASCII/EBCDIC conversion.[6]
The XT/370 came with an XT-style 83-key keyboard (10 function keys).[2] Newer revisions of the XT/370 dropped the PC3277-EM in favor of the IBM 3278/79 boards. The XT/370 was among the XT systems that could use a second hard drive mounted in the 5161 expansion chassis.[7]
Personal Computer AT/370[edit]
In 1984, IBM introduced the IBM Personal Computer AT/370[8] with similar cards as for the XT/370 and updated software, supporting both larger hard disks and DMA transfers from the 3277 card to the AT/370 Processor card. The system was almost 60% faster than the XT/370.[4] The AT/370 used different, 16-bit interface co-processing cards than the XT, called PC/370-P2 and PC/370-M2. The latter card still had only 512 KB for memory, out of which 480 KB were usable for programs in S/370 mode, while 32 KB were reserved for microcode storage. For the terminal emulation function, the AT/370 came with the same 3278/79 Emulation Adapter as the late-series XT/370. The AT/370 motherboard itself was equipped with 512 KB of RAM.[9]
The AT/370 also ran VM/PC, but with PC DOS 3.0 instead of 2.10 that the XT version used.[10] VM/PC version 2, launched in November 1985, improved performance by up to 50%; it allowed add-on memory (in addition to the disk) to be used as a page cache for VM.[11]
A November 1985 Computerworld article noted that the machine was "slow selling".[11]
IBM 7437 VM/SP Personal Workstation[edit]
As of November 1988, IBM was shipping a workstation version of the System/370 hardware intended to run IBM's VM/SP operating system. Officially called the IBM 7437 VM/SP Personal Workstation, it was a freestanding tower that connected to a MCA card installed in a PS/2 Model 60, 70, or 80. One IBM representative described the 7437 "like a 9370 with a single terminal". Its list price at launch was $18,100 for 25-unit orders.[12]
Later, IBM introduced the Personal/370 (aka P/370), a single slot 32-bit MCA card that can be added to a PS/2 or RS/6000 computer to run System/370 OSs (like MUSIC/SP, VM, VSE) parallel to OS/2 (in PS/2) or AIX (in RS/6000) supporting multiple concurrent users. It is a complete implementation of the S/370 Processor including a FPU co-processor and 16 MB memory. Management and standard I/O channels are provided via the host OS/hardware. An additional 370 channel card can be added to provide mainframe-specific I/O such as 3270 local control units, 3400/3480 tape drives or 7171 protocol converters.
Although a single-card product, the P/370 ran three times faster than the 7437, attaining 3.5 MIPS, on par with a low-end IBM 4381.[13] A subsequent book (by the same author) claims 4.1 MIPS for the P/370.[14]
The Personal/370 was available as early as November 1989 although on a "special bid basis".[15]
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As IBM's mainframes evolved to the IBM ESA/390 architecture, IBM's PC-related products evolved to support that as well.
S/390 Processor Card[edit]
An important goal in the design of the S/390 Processor Card was complete compatibility with existing mainframe operating systems and software. The processor implements all of the ESA/390 and XA instructions which prevents the need for instruction translation. There are three generations of the card:
- The original S/390 Processor Card incorporated 32MB of dedicated memory, with optional 32MB or 96MB daughter cards, for a combined total of 64MB or 128MB of RAM. The processor was officially rated at 4.5 MIPS. It was built to plug into a MicroChannel host system.
- The second version was built for a PCI host system. It included 128 MB of dedicated memory as standard, and was still rated at 4.5 MIPS.
- The third version, referred to as a P/390E card (for Enhanced), included 256 MB of dedicated memory and was rated at 7 MIPS. It, too, was built for a PCI host system. There was an extremely rare (possibly only ever released as pre-production samples) 1 GB memory version of the P/390E card.
R/390 was the designation used for the expansion card used in an IBM RS/6000 server. The original R/390 featured a 67 or 77 MHz POWER2 processor and 32 to 512 MB of RAM, depending on the configuration. The MCA P/390 expansion card can be installed in any MCA RS/6000 system, while the PCI P/390 card can be installed in a number of early PCI RS/6000s; all such configurations are referred to as an R/390. R/390 servers need to run AIX version 4 as the host operating system.
P/390 was the designation used for the expansion card used in an IBM PC Server and was less expensive than the R/390. The original P/390 server was housed in an IBM PC Server 500 and featured a 90 MHz Intel Pentium processor for running OS/2. The model was revised in mid-1996 and rebranded as the PC Server 520, which featured a 133 MHz Intel Pentium processor. Both models came standard with 32 MB of RAM and were expandable to 256 MB. The PC Server 500 featured eight MCA expansion slots while the PC Server 520 added two PCI expansion slots and removed two MCA slots.
S/390 Integrated Server[edit]
The S/390 Integrated Server (aka S/390 IS) is a mainframe housed in a comparably small case (HxWxD are 82 x 52 x 111 cm). It became available from November 1998. It is intended for customers who do not require the I/O bandwidth and performance of the S/390 Multiprise 3000 (which has the same size). Only 256 MB of ECC Memory and a single CMOS main processor (performance about 8 MIPS) are used; the S/390 CPU used in the Integrated Server is in fact the P/390 E-card. A Pentium II is used as IOSP (I/O Service Processor). It supports four ESCON and to four parallel channels. Standard PCI and ISA slots are present. A maximum of 255 GB internal harddisks are supported (16x 18GB HDs, with 2x HDs for redundancy). The supported OSs are OS/390, MVS/ESA, VM/ESA and VSE/ESA.
Fujitsu PC-based mainframes[edit]
Fujitsu offers two PC-compatible systems that make up the lower end of Fujitsu's S/390-based[16] BS2000 mainframe product line. The SQ100 is the slower configuration, running on dual-core Xeon E7220 processors, and is capable of up to 200RPF of performance.[17] The SQ200 was introduced more recently, uses 6-core Xeon X7542 processors, and has performance of up to 700RPF.[18] All x86-based BS2000 mainframes can run Linux or Windows in separate partitions. Fujitsu also continues to make custom S/390-native processors and mainframe hardware for the high end of its BS2000 line.[19]
z/Architecture and today[edit]
Since the late 1990s, PC processors have become fast enough to perform mainframe emulation without the need for a peripheral card. There are currently several personal computer emulators available that support System/390 and z/Architecture.
- FLEX-ES by Fundamental Software emulates both System/390 (ESA/390) and z/Architecture. Claimed to be one of the most popular PC-based IBM-compatible mainframe products (as of 2006). While FLEX-ES is capable of running on most PC hardware, the licensing agreement prohibits it. FLEX-ES must run on the machine with which it was sold; in the past, this included Compaq Proliant and HP servers, but today this is nearly always an approved IBM xSeries server or a ThinkPad laptop.
- Hercules the open source emulator, is another popular product which has been in continuous development since 1999 and emulates the System/370, System/390, and z/Architecture instruction sets. It does however require a complete operating system in order to execute application programs. While IBM does not license its current operating systems to run on Hercules, earlier System/370 operating systems are in the public domain and can be legally run on Hercules.
- zPDT An IBM offering allowing IBM PartnerWorld Independent Software Developers (ISVs) to legally run z/OS 1.6 (or higher), DB2 V8 (or higher), z/TPF, or z/VSE 4.1 (or higher) on PC-based machines that can be acquired based on a Linux emulation. IBM Rational application developers can obtain zPDT through the licensing of Rational Developer for System z Unit Test (RDz UT).
- PI-ZZA is a combined "System/390" emulator and IDE developed in 2012 by Ken Dakin, author of 1970's Mainframe debugging products OLIVER and SIMON (as well as a very early Mainframe spreadsheet known as the Works Records System).
- PI-ZZA requires no operating system to function with it (unlike Hercules above) but instead currently emulates a "generic 370/XA" 31-bit environment with some S/390 and Z/Architecture extensions in the form of additionally supported machine instructions. No additional operating system license is therefore required to run the software (although the software does have to be Licensed from the author). It will also operate on any hardware platform supporting the .NET Framework (unlike FLEX-ES or Hercules). This allows the Mono .Net emulator to support it under Linux on a much larger range of machines for instance.
- The software runs under the Common Language Infrastructure permitting it (at least in theory) to operate on non-IBM portable machines such as the recently introduced Raspberry Pi on the ARM1176JZF-S processor - although this is yet to be officially verified in practise. According to Ken Dakin, the product name PI-ZZA is at least partially derived from the Raspberry Pi - the other half deriving from Z/Architecture. It incorporates a built-in instruction level profiler and allows source level or dis-assembled step-by-step instruction execution, breakpoints ("Pauses") and other debugging features such as full or partial trace.
- It incorporates a full memory protection feature, preventing application program memory overwrites such as buffer overflow. The profiler permits individual instruction counts to be reset (for timing selected sections of code for instance). Weighted instruction counts or "raw" instruction counts are both available within the profiler.
- The user written IBM Assembler code (the target program), in the form of a relocatable .bin or .obj file(s) can optionally call the .NET environment to fulfill certain selected GUI functions on the chosen .Net machine. The programs can also Load and branch directly to other programs to be emulated.
- Ken Dakin says "The emulator was never intended to fully support legacy assembler programs (without some modification), rather instead to allow new programs to be written that can utilize existing skills and teach these skills to students, while at the same time allowing recent .Net features to be used". Programs can be assembled using the HLASM compatible "Dignus assembler" or the Tachyon assembler. The emulator incorporates an optional Text to speech feature and dynamic disassembler that describes the IBM instructions in some detail during step-by-step execution (Program animation) or at a program failure. This can assist students and visually impaired persons perceive audibly precisely what an instruction is about to do.
- The z390 and zcobol is a portable macro assembler and COBOL compiler, linker, and emulator toolkit providing a way to develop, test, and deploy mainframe compatible assembler and COBOL programs using any computer that supports J2SE 1.6.0+ runtime.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Interest Group for Possible IBM Computer". BYTE. January 1981. p. 313. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
- ^ a b BYTE Guide to the IBM PC, fall 1984, p. 20
- ^ "Implementation of IBM System 370 Via Co-Microprocessors/The Co-Processor... - IPCOM000059679D - IP.com". Priorartdatabase.com. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
- ^ a b Scott Mueller Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Second Edition, Que Books, 1992, ISBN 0-88022-856-3 pages 73-75, page 94
- ^ a b c BYTE Guide to the IBM PC, fall 1984, p. 36
- ^ BYTE Guide to the IBM PC, fall 1984, pp. 44-46
- ^ Personal Computer Family Service Information Manual (January 1989), IBM document SA38-0037-00, page 6-17
- ^ "IBM Highlights, 1970-1984" (PDF). IBM.
- ^ Personal Computer Family Service Information Manual (January 1989), IBM document SA38-0037-00, pages 9-26 to 9-28
- ^ Virtual Machine/Personal Computer User's Guide, p. 1-3, IBM publication number 6137739, December 1984
- ^ a b John Gallant (25 November 1985). IBM exploiting AT/370 ability. Computerworld. pp. 25, 29. ISSN 0010-4841.
- ^ Fisher, Sharon; LaPlante, Alice (1988-11-07), "IBM's VM/SP Device Cuts Mainframe Load", InfoWorld 10 (45): 113
- ^ Jeffrey Savit (1993). Vm/Cms: Concepts and Facilities. McGraw-Hill. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-07-054977-7.
- ^ Nallur S. Prasad; Jeffrey Savit (1994). IBM mainframes: architecture and design. McGraw-Hill. p. 327. ISBN 978-0-07-050691-6.
- ^ IBM. InfoWorld. 20 November 1989. p. 105. ISSN 0199-6649.
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- ^ "Business Server S210 - Fujitsu Technology Solutions". Ts.fujitsu.com. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
External links[edit]
- P/390 and R/390 with OS/390: An Introduction (IBM Redbook)
- P/390, R/390, S/390 Integrated Server: OS/390 New User's Cookbook (IBM Redbook)
- S/390 Integrated Server - Hardware Announcement; September 8, 1998
- VM/ESA Performance on P/390 and R/390 PC Server 520 and RS/6000 591
- Detail pictures of a PC Server 500, on the private website of Alfred Arnold
- Detail pictures of a S/390 IS (incl. screenshot of console), on the private website of Michael J. Ross
- P/390 Information at '9595 Ardent Tool of Capitalism'
- IBM PC Server System/390 FAQ at '9595 Ardent Tool of Capitalism'
- zPDT: Introduction and Reference. (IBM Redbook)
- zPDT: User's guide (IBM Manual)
- zPDT worldwide distributor
- zPDT for Rational Developer for System z Unit Test
- Micro/370 - the chips used in the XT/370
- Kozuh, F. T.; Livingston, D. L.; Spillman, T. C. (1984). "System/370 capability in a desktop computer". IBM Systems Journal 23 (3): 245. doi:10.1147/sj.233.0245.
- A performance evaluation of the IBM 370/XT personal computer, NASA


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Written by Sebastian Hedencrona on Thu, Sep 27 2012
Being the only on-going global research on internet usage, sometimes our results are new and unfamiliar to people.
This is always the case with our data on China, particularly when researching usage of Facebook and Twitter. The official story is that nobody uses them; even Facebook's IPO document declared that the company had no users in China. Considering China is by all measures the most active social media market on the planet and not isolated from the rest of the world, this is somewhat of a surprise.
Since Wave 1 (July 2009), we have tracked user growth for Twitter in China from 11.8m (use or contribute last month) to 35m in Q2 2012. Facebook has grown even more impressively from 7.9m to 63.52m over the same period, although we should bear in mind that due to the size of the market this only represents 8% and 15% respectively of the internet population. The sheer size of the market can turn moderate interest and adoption into a major play.
In reality, this should not be a surprise; we should, firstly, consider our methodology, which is self-completion surveys in Mandarin (Simplified Chinese for Mainland China) served to an online panel run by an internationally accredited panel company. Furthermore, we have run seven waves of research in China, covering a representative sample of the internet users from within this panel; our samples are defined by age, gender, education level to be as representative of that population as possible. For questions regarding social media usage, respondents are posed the simple question "On which of the following services have you created an account?" and are provided a list of global services and also local players . For all the selections they choose, they are then asked "On which of the following services have you used or contributed last month?" Following on from this, they then define which actions they have done on that service by PC, mobile or tablet device. It is simple, clear, and we have verified it in all markets against other forms of data.
Crucially, our methodology produces exactly the right figures for the local services that dominate (see graph below) the Chinese internet market, with 66% of Chinese internet users being active on Qzone (286m users), 61% on Sina Weibo (264m users) and 56% on Tencent Weibo (239m users).
To put the domination of local services into perspective, we should examine how low the level of engagement that Twitter and Facebook exhibit in comparison to local services in China mentioned above. For example, only 34% of active Chinese Twitter users have posted a Tweet in our latest survey while 54% of UK users did so. Clearly, they are supplementary and not core social platforms.
Another interesting point is the user base structure. Taking Facebook as an example, 65% of active users are male, 69% have a post-graduate degree and 76% are under the age of 34. It's clear that younger, internationally engaged demographic groups are driving the adoption of foreign social media services.
How are Chinese users getting onto Facebook and Twitter?
We routinely come across the argument that these sites are blocked in China, and therefore, our figures cannot possibly be correct. However, it only takes a little bit of desk research to discover that what is called the "Great Firewall" is actually much more porous than the Chinese government would like to admit. On closer inspection, Chinese users are using VPNs (Virtual Private Networks), VCN (Virtual Cloud Networks) or connections at work that may be routed internationally. Crucially, this means that users won't be picked up in analytics and will not register as being in a Chinese location at all!
Also Chinese users are the most active mobile internet users on the planet with 78% of internet users also accessing by mobile in the last month. This compares to the UK at 55%, Japan 49% and the US at 38%. Mobile connections and apps have also made it easier to access both Facebook and Twitter. Our Asian market experts routinely see examples of this such as the recent discovery that if someone downloads the Flipboard app they can access Twitter, as this story outlines.
In addition, there are well-known active Twitter users, such as famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who has 120K followers and has featured in some protests (this example driving Chinese residents over to Hong Kong).
There are broader drivers that are worth considering as well. Every school child in China is learning English, and many millions now go to study abroad. In addition, hundreds of millions of Chinese have connections to family members living aboard. In other markets, these factors have been important in driving uptake of Facebook, and they will have a similar impact in China.
In short, the "Great Firewall" is not as solid as many people think and analytics and tracking data (which only track conventional connections or places Chinese users in the location of the VPN) do not tell the full story. If we actually go into the market and simply ask the people, a much more complex picture emerges, and it is this behaviour that is illuminated by GlobalWebIndex.
63 millions China FB users = USELESS. FB makes money from advertisers not from users. China advertisers are not able to advertise on FB = NO revenue = NO Earning = Useless. I do not think that China Advertisers want to take the risk of advertising on Facebook even if they can use proxies/VPN to access. Why? There are so many more efficient Chinese websites to advertise, why choose FB which is blocked by the government? And they certainly put their company on fire by going against the rules by Chinese government.
We have some questions regarding this data:
1. How many registered users are there from China for Twitter, Facebook and Google+? Your own data and tweets suggest 75 million for Twitter (via your tweet), 125 million for Facebook (also via your tweet although your report suggests 450 million) and 150 million for Google + (via the same report).
2. How many of those users are active? Your data again suggests 35.4 million (via your blog post) but eMarketer suggests 35.5 million (via their infographic). Facebook at 63 million and Google + at 106 million (both via your infographic). How do the active user percentages for Twitter (47%), Facebook (50%) and Google + (71%) compare to other markets?
3. Does China include Hong Kong, Macau and/or Taiwan in your reports?
4. If Twitter has more active users in China than in the US, how come the most popular account based in China has only 562,250 followers (and is run by a foreigner)? This compares to the most followed US-based Twitter account (ladagaga: 29m followers) as well as the most followed Sina Weibo account (姚晨: 24m followers), both more than 100 times more popular.
5. If Facebook has tens of millions of users in China, why do they themselves only claim to have 600k?
6. If LinkedIn.com has 16m users in China and Facebook has four times as many, why does Alexa rank LinkedIn as #267 and Facebook only as #482?
7. What is a "Virtual Cloud Network" and how do you use it to circumvent censorship? Did you ask users how they get around the Great Firewall? In our experience, free circumvention tools such as Ultrasurf and Freegate are more widespread than commercial VPNs but we lack data and it would be very interesting to know more.
8. How did you find users to reply to your surveys in China? Was the survey in Chinese? If so, how were the names of Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn translated? On what websites was it advertised? Was the survey website itself blocked or throttled in China?
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Your number is invalid. I wonder how you get this number.
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I am sure you only get 600k+ users there. This is an OFFICIAL number by Facebook, it can't be wrong.
"Last month" is hardly a suitable measure for social media research. The whole premise of social media is frequent interactions. How can such a blunt measure indicate anything? The reason why past month is used is because it is flattering to social media. Try using past 24 hours or past 3 days and see what a difference you get!
Can you please make the disstiction between visitors of the site and users with a Twitter or Facebook account? This is not clear. If millions of Chinese people have Fb profiles this means the Chinese government allows it 'secretly'. Or not?
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Yom Kippur, a lamentation
I really hyped up Yom Kippur yesterday in my post on The Times of Israel hours before the fast began. I meant what I wrote and yet, post-Yom Kippur, I need to make a confession.
This year I had a very annoying and pretty upsetting Yom Kippur.
First of all, I really hate fasting. I'm not the worst faster but it makes me feel uncomfortable and weak and the whole time, I just can't wait for it to be over.
Secondly, I knew I might have menstrual cramps on Yom Kippur and I wouldn't be able to take pills for them. This stressed me out all day.
And then, thinking about cramps without pain killers got me thinking about other people who would suffer more than usual because of the extremely strict fasting laws on Yom Kippur. Ynet's overly dramatized Yom Kippur in numbers article mentions that 108 fasters were taken to the hospital by ambulance after fainting today. Oy vey.
Third, Yom Kippur really stirs up the emotions and sometimes that means we get to see the stuff about ourselves that we wish wasn't looming there, ready to rear its ugly head. My oh my.
In yesterday's piece I said that I was going to focus on the positive – imagine a better me and a better world. But instead I kept thinking about how crappy I can be and that wasn't fun. (For some odd reason.)
Finally, this year I didn't feel like being in shul. I normally spend quite a lot of time there but after Ma'ariv last night, I decided not to go to during the day. This gave my Yom Kippur much less structure and maybe, much less meaning.
Of course Yom Kippur this year wasn't all bad. Last night I walked to Emek Refaim with a few of the kids in the family and that was really nice. Instead of going to shul today, I took up camp on my parents' couch and stayed on that dear couch from approximately 8:30 in the morning until around 5:00 in the evening. During that time, I read (Great Expectations), slept and had many visitors in the form of parents, sisters and nieces and nephews.
At around 5:30 this evening I decided to go to shul for the end of Ne'ila. I got there in time for the very dramatic and touching ending of the Yom Kippur prayers (I'm not being facetious).
And then it was over.
Usually when Yom Kippur ends, I am giddy that it happened and relieved that it's over. This year I'm left feeling a bit empty. Maybe I would have felt better if I'd forced myself to go to shul at least for Mussaf today. It's hard to know.
It's interesting that I had such a frustrating, forced Yom Kippur after I wrote such an excited piece about this holiday a few hours before it began. I wonder if I jinxed myself or maybe, through writing the piece, I realized that actually I don't exactly feel the way I thought I do.
Or maybe this Yom Kippur I was just in a bad mood. Everything being said, I think the truth is a mix of all of the above.
Shana tova.
Children and Lashon Hara – by Michael T. Pullen
So what do you do with 10 year olds when they say things that are not true when they do not understand the gravity of there words?
I live in a small sleepy suburb just West of Boston, MA. It is a bedroom community where the executive elite of Boston reside. It is a wealthy town. It is quiet. It is not usually in the public eye.
Wednesday morning Sudbury caught the attention of most of America. Why would anyone care about this town? Well, 1 street over from my house a man was arrested on account of trying to be a terrorist. I say trying because he attempted to join 3 terrorist organizations that would not let him in. And in a country where a weapon is as easy to buy as alcohol he was not able to buy his semiautomatic rifles he wanted for attacking the local mall.
So … good the Fed caught the man.
Well of course as parents we have been wondering what would come back home from school after such excitement.
We have some neighbors who have moved here from Iran. Lovely people. She is doing research on autistic children and he resigned from his high level job to come support her in the US. They have 2 children and one is in class with my son. So on the way home from school, as the kids rode the bus, another boy (happens to belong to our synagogue) decided to tell those around him that this Iranian boy's father is a terrorist. We are not sure the boy heard on the bus, however, when they got off at the bus stop a couple of girls decided to inform him that this boy was saying this on the bus. Of course he got quite upset.
In the end my wife called the mother (she did not know anything about it even 2 hours later – he did not tell her) and the principal.
So my thing is this, the boy who is spreading these rumors is Jewish. My kids are Jewish. They are all under 10. How do you teach children about Lashon Hara? My favorite tale is the one of the child who is telling stories is asked to take a pillow of feathers and to run as fast as he can without dropping a feather. The moral of the story is that your words are like the feathers, once they are out of the bag and carried by the wind they are impossible to gather and put back in. It is a good tale but does it work?
What lessons have you encountered on such "soft" topics?
The most important moment of the week
I heard a talk a while ago around the idea that Judaism is a religion where time is the most important thing. Now someone just told me he heard a talk where the rabbi said that the most important moment of the week is the moment when we go from week day into Shabbat. Our lives, potentially, revolve around that moment. We rush all week, maybe especially right before Shabbat, then we light the candles and *poof*, we're in a new realm of existence. Not that anything really changed but it did.
When this guy shared that idea with me, I said that it almost made me feel like fully keeping Shabbat again. : ) It seems so powerful, almost like it reminds us that we have the power. We think that life is just pushing us along but we choose to stop it all. Of course we could choose not to and of course some people don't even feel that they are choosing to keep Shabbat, but if you can feel that you're choosing to keep it – I mean seriously, you don't have to, right? – then you can experience freedom through this.
And is freedom not what we all want? True freedom?
Manners in Israel
People who visit or move to Israel from "Western" countries know that Israeli culture is very different than the culture wherever they come from. It's much more in your face, straight forward and, sometimes, a "Westerner" might think it a little, well, rude.
Honestly, maybe it's because I'm hiding at home (kidding, sort of) but since I moved back to Jerusalem from Vancouver, B.C., I haven't found it to be too bad. You have individuals who are rude and you see things here you wouldn't see other places (like this guy who had wooden slats fall off his pick up truck so he stopped right in the middle of the road (there was TONS of traffic at the time) and started nonchalantly walking through the middle of the street picking up what he'd dropped) because people are more prone to just do what they feel like doing (which, in general, is great, no?). But when I have to deal with people here one-on-one, it's really not too bad. At least so far that's how it's been.
I just got a phone call. A couple of days ago I emailed the mega food company Tnuva that I'm getting mail from them and I don't want to anymore. A woman with the utmost will to offer good customer service (not as "professional" sounding as she would have been in Canada but I couldn't give a damn) called to find out what I was referring to. She took all my information and told me she's going to pass it on and she hopes I'll stop getting the mail, as I requested. How lovely that conversation was. Of course I don't believe I won't receive the mail until I see it with my own two eyes, but I appreciate the will and effort very much.
But here's something funny that happened to me and please tell me what you think.
One very cool thing I learned in Vancouver was to say thank you to the bus driver when I get off the bus, even when I get off in the back! When I first arrived in Vancouver, it seemed so funny to me, to see everyone shouting "Thank you, Driver!" from the back of the bus when getting off. But what a nice thing to do and so I got used to doing it too. You make eye contact with the driver with the help of his/her rear-view mirror and you say thank you.
So the first time I took the bus here, last week, I got off in the back and, without thinking, shouted "Todah!" to the driver as I got off. (Isn't that funny that even though it was subconscious, I still said it in Hebrew?)
I actually got off the bus embarrassed! It must have seemed so strange to the people on the bus. I know, it's nice and there's nothing wrong with it, but it's so out of character for Israel. Not that people don't say thank you, but not shouting up like that.
Now I have a dilemma. Do I continue doing this or do I conform to the local society? Of course I think it's really nice to make this gesture but I'm shy! It's embarrassing doing this because it really brings attention to yourself.
On the other hand, imagine if this became regular practice here in Israel. In general Israelis have become a lot more polite so someone must have started the change, right?
What do you think? Should I do it? Would you do it in Israel?
Yom Kippur inspired
Erev Yom Kippur (yesterday afternoon) I wrote this post.
I feel the need to write a follow-up to that post. I was somewhat upset that I didn't feel very inspired leading up to Yom Kippur but I must say that in the end it was really a very beautiful holiday. Don't get me wrong. I hate fasting. But it wasn't a terrible fast. If we had to make a list of the coolest things about Israel, the fact that the country changes to the winter clocks before Yom Kippur so that the fast will come out an hour earlier, is definitely in that list. The fact we only changed our clocks one day before the fast, well, that's not exactly the most logical thing since we all still felt like it was 7pm when the fast was over but still, the clocks said 6pm and that rocked.
Another one of the coolest things about Israel, is that Yom Kippur is such a quiet, quiet, quiet day. Amazing. I went for a walk with my little sister and niece (nine and 10 years old) after synagogue last night and they were, without a doubt, the loudest things on the street.
Everyone walks in the middle of the streets, even the main streets. It's not that the streets are closed off. There is no rule. It's seriously, if I may be so eloquent, the coolest. I only saw two cars go by over the whole 25 hours and they were both medical vans.
Today I went to a different shul than my parents because their synagogue is amazingly uninspiring. The place I went, Shir Chadash, was seriously beautiful davening! They hire professional Jewish-style popular – soulful, as my mom put it – singers to lead the prayers. So, besides the airconditioning that made me into a popsicle (not an icicle because I'm sweet) and the chairs that, well, my poor tushy, I'm so happy I went there at least for part of the davening.
And I do believe that the moment that Yom Kippur is over is by far the most wonderful moment of the year. There is a feeling of the tension being released after such an intense time. It's such a happy time. Also, we have the longest time before one of the two major fasts comes around again (Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av) and it's almost Sukkot!
So now we can say, chag sam'each! Happy Sukkot! Tonight we will be able to start hearing our neighbours build their sukkot. And in a day or two, Rachel and I will decorate ours! Yay!
Being Jewish is too much work
What an appropriate search for Yom Kippur. Someone googled "being Jewish is too much work" and found Blog Midrash. I'm proud that Blog Midrash came up in that search. Funny.
But it's a good question. Is being Jewish too much work?
Is this a Jewish country, or what?
I'm sitting in my new writing corner in my parents' home, listening to the Shabbat begin. What does that sound like in Jerusalem? Less traffic, a quiet calm as people finish up their preparations, some sounds of kids interacting and, of course, the siren.
Have you all heard the siren that sounds at the time of candle lighting? I assume this happens in all cities in Israel but I definitely know that it happens here in Jerusalem.
The funny/weird/freaky thing is that we use the same siren to announce the descent of missiles (God forbid) as we do to announce the descent of the sun as Shabbat enters. It plays a different "tune" – during an attack the siren goes up and down and when Shabbat comes in it is just one flat note (like when the siren gives the all-clear signal) – but it's the same one anyway.
I wonder what the story is behind that. Who thought of this and how did it come to be so accepted as a normal part of life here?
This city, Jerusalem, is so unbelievably hectic and loud and rambunctious, it almost makes no sense that right now, at this moment, it's so calm. So calm, it's like all week people run and rush and chase and now they say, "OK, good. All's good." Just like when God created the world and it says at the end of almost every day, "וירא ה' כי טוב." And God saw that it was good.
Very good.
Shabbat Shalom
What I love about being Jewish: 5 – by Michael T. Pullen
I am not a person that loves tradition. I have the personality that tends to rail against tradition. Why should I do something just because everyone else is doing it? Traditions should be challenged.
What Judaism has taught me is that tradition has a special place in passing along some of the important actions and interactions of a community.
Here are some of my favorite traditions:
- Lighting Shabbat candles, blessings over the wine and Challah
- Shabbat without the tethers of work
- Food, drink and family with each holiday occasion
- Encouraging learning
- Practice doing
- Focus on the making the mundane holy
- Passover dinner
- Hannukah stories (Eric Kimmel is my favorite)
- Building a Succah
- Wearing my Kippah
What are your favorite traditions?
A bar mitzva 77 years late
Over the last few years, I keep hearing about people who have their bar or bat mitzvas once they're older. Then I hear about people doing it when they're much older. Today I read an article about a man who just had his bar mitzva at the age of 90.
Why is it so touching to us to see this happen? Is it proof that things we think we missed or lost, are not necessarily out or reach? Do we see that even after tens of years, the majority of your life, living one way, you can choose something else?
At my work with Jewish elderly we've lately been thinking about having a group bar/bat mitzva. Like the man in the article, some are hesitant and worried about being put on the spot or having to do things they don't really know how to do (like read Hebrew), but imagine the gratification of such an accomplishment or even such a decision, at such an age.
*sniff sniff* (Really, btw, you should see me right now. I'm bawling from all the touching things I've seen and read this evening.)
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My last AF was 11/25, DH & I weren't so careful on cd15, my face broke out this week which for me has always been a pg sign & though I wasn't looking to be pg I said "gosh you would think I was pg!" I'm due to start AF tuesday, yesterday I had a backache like I do when AF starts, today once when I went to the bathroom there was a nice big spot of red on the tp. I thought AF was early so I threw on a pad & went on with my day. It's now been 11 hours since the spotty wipe & I've had not another drop. Not sure what's going on but the first thing I thought of was implantation bleeding.
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As you can see, almost all of the cut content has been finished over the summer, and there's even been some additions. Right now, the only cut content is about 3 New Republic and Imperial Remnant ground units, the Ssi-Ruuvi minor faction, and Fall of the Republic.
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I have ALWAYS had small boobs and now they seem smaller and saggier now that I have two kids and breast fed.
I don't know a whole lot about them but have always "wanted" them...
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