Kosher meat plays hard to get

This morning I was meant to go visit Eli Ginsberg and get to see his newborn daughter Mira, but due to complications we eventually got together at the Marina Roscha Shul in the early afternoon.

There we spoke for several minutes. I told him that now that he has a family, he should start putting on Tefillin every day. We negotiated, and he decided to do it as often as he can. We also spoke about several other intelligent stuff, after which I gave him some cute gifts that Chayale put together (Jewish book, little Torah) and I bought (the Mezuza pictured above), which he weill use to make Mira's room have more of a Jewish feeling.

Then he made a nice donation, which will be used to get a ton more meat to Stavropol.

With Or Avner's office closure and gradual implosion to what it is now (due to the crisis), the way of shluchim in regional cities to get kosher meat has become harder.

Previously we could call Or Avner in Moscow, place our order, and they would pay for it and send it to us by having a driver take it to the train or bus (or plane if you live in the far east I think). All that is because no food is allowed in the post or something like that.

Anyway, the money would be taken out of our next paycheck, simple as pie.

However, now that resource has closed. And so the shluchim are trying to discover new ways to get meat. And then of course there is the problem of paying the companies for the meat too (they have no access to our salaries).

So I spent the day working out how to get meat, and placing a massive order (which I will finish tomorrow iy"h). What a pain.

Tomorrow, incidentally, I also leave back home, which means that the next time I will be posting regularly is when we have internet, which should be soon (quick hopeful glance at the sky).

By the way, the first picture is of me putting a Mezuza up in our new apartment.