Went to a shiur yesterday. Mom put Mati to bed and was... tadam!!! successful.
The shiur was interesting and I need to re-train myself to actually do stuff and listen to stuff. I am aware I discussed much too... much.

The guy on my left said we should convert all the non Jews, "sauf les animaux" (except the animals). He was quite adamant about it. It was really funny, in a creepy way.

I liked how the rabbi said bereshit was not really "in the beginning" (G-d created the sky and the Earth) but "for the righteous" (= the Jews and the non Jewish righteous), because according to Rashi, reshit was used in other texts as a word to mean the righteous, and isn't correct to mean the beginning. He said it also solved the problem of the science/religion battle because it didn't mean that the first things that appeared were sky & Earth.
Bear in mind it was an Orthodox / just plain frum shiur, not a charedi one, although lighter charedis have said this kind of things too in Europe.

I met this older, a bit out there woman who told me tons of stuff on myself and my family.
She told me I need friends my age, I need to go out more but when it happens I shouldn't lose myself in outings, I should understand "down" periods are only there to make us understand it's all in G-d's hands but he will make us go up again, she also told me there were twins in my family, a long time indeed (indeed! they died in the Shoah), and that I would have twins! Then, I thought "errrr, the work", and she said "you'll be helped a ton!".

Some could have been character reading, other stuff was just... wow. I got chills just thinking about it. My husband who was davening arvit when it happened told me he had the same when he had a talk with a rebbe who told him he wasn't ready (yet?) to live in Israel and definitely shouldn't make alia, and when he said he was in a small community and was afraid of not finding someone frum enough, the rebbe said the Torah could be found everywhere, even where you couldn't think. And he found me in a tiny 20 000 inhabitants French town, the only girl between 14 and 38 at that time, still the only hair coverer, etc.
The rebbe also told him other stuff about himself and his goals that made him, the "kalt Litvak" type", go wow. Is it just character reading, after many many years of life experience (and quite an experience, with WW2 and rebuilding from scratch!)? Or?

Do YOU believe some people see things?


[By the way I asked my husband, the scientist mind, and he told me since the twins were in direct maternal line, yes I could have them too].