Here’s me not feeling even remotely bitter that the Guinness World Record for the largest Shabbat dinner — the one my friends and I set in Tel Aviv in 2014 — has just been broken again.

Absolutely not bitter.

Totally fine over here.

No, truly, I’m not at all dwelling on the fact that this new record-setter organized by Temple Emanu-El’s Streicker Center and held in the New York City’s convention center came with a half-million-dollar check courtesy of the UJA-Federation of New York and a $54 ticket price to boot. Meanwhile, ours — run by a handful of exhausted volunteers at White City Shabbat — was free for anyone who tossed even a single dollar into our crowdfunding campaign. (Side note: Running that campaign remains one of the hardest things I’ve done — begging frien

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