Re: Reply to Yitzik (jara: New Survey: Celtic Conlangs)

 --- Isaac A. Penzev skrzypszy:

> [me]: As I wrote, I came back to conlanging by learning that there are sooo
> many ppl in the world doing it!
It certainly made me wake up!

> As for my origin:
> <<The name "Isaak" made me think that you were born Jewish.>>
> That's not my *documented* name. In the official papers I'm still Igor. I
> chose a new name of Isaac as a sign of changes in my spirituality and way of
> life (my wife and I are learning to practice Torah-observant lifestyle); it
> is not found in any official document, but my best friends (and even some
> relatives), and everybody in the congregation call me Isaac or Yitzik. I
> hope to see this name in giyyur (formal conversion) certificate one day...
Never experienced the problem that according to the orthodox learnings it
should be a matter of blood only?

> <<Also because
> Russian seems to be the L1 of most Jews in Ukraine; my fiancee (who is from
> Lviv, as you might recall) is an example. She still considers Jewry as her
> nationality>>
> I'm impressed! My congratulations!
Thank you.

> Let her kindle the Sabbath lights tonight at about 4:30pm (I don't know your
> precise location, so I looked for Amsterdam); tell her: Yitzik says - that's
> important!
Well, I should add that to her it is a matter of nationality only. As for
religion, she is somewhere in the middle of the triangle of my agnosticism, her
own Jewishness, and her late father's catholocism... closest to my corner, I
think. But I will tell her. Anyway, since my daughter is Jewish, she will
eventually have to learn something about Jewish traditions.

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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