With the best of intentions, someone donated $18 to the Shul last week. She was shocked to discover that she had been charged card $1800 instead of $18!!
A quick investigation revealed that she had unwittingly entered her donation amount as $18,00 instead of $18.00 (comma instead of period). The automatic credit card processor didn't recognize the comma and charged the total as $1800. A simple comma instead of a period was the difference between bounced checks, aggravated merchants, unnecessary overdraft fees and untold stress!
A simple comma. Who would've thought?
I was recently asked why we hold our Passover Seder so late on Monday April 14th. Why can't you hold the Seder at dinner time at 5 or 6pm?
"...on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty first day of the month , in the evening' (Leviticus 12:18- Read in this week's Torah portion Parshat Hachodesh).
The Torah is explicit that the Mitzvah of the Passover Seder is after nightfall on the first night of Passover. Nightfall this year on 14 April is 8:20pm in Palm Beach Gardens. If you held the Seder before then, it's technically not Passover yet.
There's still plenty time before Pesach this year: Would you perhaps consider upgrading your seder a notch this year?
What does it really matter, you ask?
Ask Denise, she'll tell you that the overdraft is all about the details!
Let's make this Passover 'Over the Top'!