Happy Mitzvah Day!

There are 613 Mitzvot in the Torah, so today is Mitzvah day.

…Today was also the day that Korea defeated Togo in the World Cup games. And as I exited the subway on the corner of 32nd and 6th Avenue (or is it Broadway? I’m not quite sure. That is the crossroad) there were thousands of Koreans across the street wearing red and screaming as if they were in a stadium. There is a big plasma screen on the outside of a building and they were standing in the courtyard of that building. Somehow there was a camera crew there, as if some Korean television station were to cut back and forth from the game in Germany to say “look at the crowds in New York City!!” I know this because these people would scream, and then saw themselves on the screen and would scream even LOUDER!!!

I knew something was up when I traveled underground from the platform to the stairwell and everything was especially hectic and backed-up. The journey from the subway platform to my office is generally frustrating enough coming out of a stairwell and directly underneath a scaffolding pole. There are always human gridlocks to navigate and one-way-streams to conquer. I often feel like a salmon. …anyway, I was privileged enough to come across the building of even more scaffolding a couple blocks further south on 5th Avenue. …ah summer in New York…