Mayim Rabim

(for part one of this misadventure, see stupid bedikah tricks)

It turns out my usual rabbi did get my bedikah, look at it, and pronounce it okay; he just forgot to call me and say so.

Or at least that's what I think happened. The fill-in rabbi (hereafter FIR) was tracked down by my husband's chosson teacher before I even got through, so he already knew the details. When I called FIR, he said the usual rabbi (hereafter UR) had assured him all the shaylahs from the day he left were okay, but he might have also said there could be someone he forgot to call back. I pointed out that I had not dropped off my shaylah the day UR left, but two days before that. FIR said he would check whether UR had been talking about me. I gave FIR the phone number I'd written on the envelope for UR, in case that made it any easier to check.

When I called FIR back, all he said was "It's okay." And where normally I would have obsessively double-checked, "Both of the things in the envelope were okay?" believe me, I did not ask aaaaaaaany follow-up questions after that.

The anonymous shaylah system is a little crazy in terms of its potential for things (or people) to fall through the cracks, but I must say, I am rather impressed at how quickly everyone swung into action when they realized it had gone wrong. FIR apologized several times for the trouble, too, when it wasn't his fault at all.

I just wish there hadn't needed to be quite so many everyones...