How a Single High Holiday Tweet May Lead Me to a New Bagel Shop

Last week, unlike most others, was a multi-bagel week for me.

The first was my usual Shabbos bagel, enjoyed, as it is each week, during Torah study.

The second was my annual break-the-fast bagel. Layered with cream cheese, lox, and a slice of home-grown tomato, and washed down with the steaming coffee I'd been dreaming about all day, it marked the perfect end to a long, exhausting, and spiritually fulfilling day.

And then there were the bagel tweets.

Strung together, they constituted a conversation.

It went something like this:

‪Sep 22 at 10:59 a.m.: @JanetheWriter checking in at the URJ:

‪My suitcase and I have been here since 9, but come 1 pm, it'll be time to Rosh-a-homa to New Jersey for Yom Kippur. 

Sep 22 at 12:36 p.m.: @BagelBossNYC: 
‪
@JanetheWriter Hurry home! Are you prepared to go fast? ;-) ‪

Sep 22 at 3;19 p.m. @JanetheWriter:‪
@BagelBossNYC Yes! ‪

Sep 24 at 9:25 a.m.: @BagelBossNYC:
‪
@JanetheWriter Was your fast pretty easy this year?‪

Sep 24 at 9:37 a.m.: @JanetheWriter:‪
@BagelBossNYC Not bad, thanks. It was great, though, to have that first sip of coffee and bite of bagel in the evening! ‪

Sep 25 at 8:51 a.m.: @BagelBossNYC:‪
@JanetheWriter We know the feeling. We've got coffee and bagels galore at 263 1st Avenue -- can you join us for a bite sometime soon? ‪

Sep 25 at 8:53 a.m.: @JanetheWriter:
@BagelBossNYC Yes, I'll stop in soon!

An auspicious start to 5776?

I hope so.

Stay tuned!