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Shavua tov people. We've had Julie cooking Julia Child for 365 days, using a crockpot for 365 days, and getting your family outside for 365 days. Not wanting to be left off the bandwagon, I thought, is there anything I want to do for 365 days? And of course, there was really only one answer. It's an experiment, to see what happens with the attempt at discipline, to try to keep me focused, and see what, if anything, comes of it. Fantasies of fame, fortune and influence are abounding! :)

Firstly, thank you to the women whose 365 day experiments have inspired mine. One is Make it Fast, Cook it Slow, another is Fifteen Minutes Outside, and because I found Julia Child so much more appealing than the blogger Julie, I'll link to her book rather than the blogger's.

Today was Shabbas Parashat Metzora. I caught up on a few aliyahs or Parsha/Rashi, leaning heavily on the Metsudah translation, and realized I know the following about tumah and tahara:
It involves a mikvah, a dead body, red heifer, sitting on things, and we don't have most of it now.
Meaning, this becomes a note to self: Learn tuma and tahara. I've heard there are good charts. Also, how does the Sefer HaChinuch deal with this? How do the non-kabbalists understand this?

I also read through the haftara, again mostly with the English translation. What a terrible story, even with it ending in food! I backed up a few passukim to see what was happening, and the Survivalist button was pressed once again.

The other big accomplishment was going through the next few sfarim of Trei Asar, trying to build a structure in my head. So now I have
Hoshea: marries a zona, Lo-Ami to Ami
Yoel: Yom HaShem, locusts
Amos: from Tekoa. Punishing for the fourth sin, lots of nations, up to Clal Yisrael.
Ovadya: one perek. Rebuking Edom.
Overstretched and look at Micah, and couldn't find unifying theme! Try again soon.

Missed chavrusas both with Dvarya Katz, due to DH being out of the country, and Adina and Shira Lebovitz, due to spaciness. Dvarya and I have been learning a perek a week of the Mishnah Torah, and Shira, Adina and I do a few Rambans on the parasha.

This is a good start.