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I switched off my computer and went downstairs to light real Sabbath candles with my husband for the first time since our children had grown up and left home. Some months later, speaking with Beth, I learned that 75 SL Synagogue members had told her they started lighting real-life Sabbath candles after lighting them in Second Life.There are many Tiffany Necklaces on sale to visit in Second Life, but SL Synagogue remains the place I feel most welcome. At first I was primarily a voyeur - I didn't have the technical skills or experience necessary to function as a full participant - and the natural shyness that inhibits me in real life followed me to this world as well. On the holiday of Sukkos, I wandered in and out of the sukkahs being erected in the courtyard outside the synagogue and was charmed by their eclectic mix of traditional fruits,

lulavs and etrogs [ritual fronds of myrtle, willow and palm, and citrons], fanciful art, meditation cushions, and tables suspended in mid-air. (Why? because people in Second Life aren't bound by real- Tiffany Keys on sale constraints such as tradition or gravity.)The courtyard hummed with activity as avatars worked on their various projects, chatting, asking each other for help, and running in and out of one another's sukkahs to admire and advise. Something genuinely Jewish and communal was happening here. My definition of "real" began to shift and to stretch. I Tiffany Earrings on sale to think, maybe it does depend on what your definition of "is" is.Central to all this activity was the omnipresent Beth Odets (her avatar's name), clearly the queen bee of this bustling hive.

An early resident of Second Life, the real-life Beth Brown first arrived as an artist curious about working in three dimensions. She bought the virtual landmass on which the synagogue was built in June 2005, and dubbed it TMA for "Tragically Misunderstood Artist." She spent the next year playing, learning, and networking in Second Life without Tiffany Bracelets on sale particular agenda - certainly not a Jewish one. Then in August 2006 she created a synagogue just because she wanted to show some nonJewish friends what a synagogue felt like.Second Life Synagogue was created from Beth's memory of all the synagogues she'd ever known. She lined the walls with large mosaic murals, made rows of pews facing a raised bimah, and left out the gender-segregated seating that would mark it as an Orthodox house of worship.