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Well! That was fun. I spent the weekend–as anyone reading this is probably aware–in Davis, connecting with people as we moved into Torah-writing time.<\/p>\n

Lots of this sort of thing:
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\nTeaching and learning with all age groups. More of that on later visits! (If anyone wants to cover anything particular, speak to your Torah committee, okay?)<\/p>\n

This, of course:
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\nMy favourite bit of the ceremony: realising that if forty-two children shake blank parchment sheets, it sounds kind of like the thunder which accompanied the original Giving of the Torah.<\/p>\n

We were writing the first six letters of the Torah, the word Bereshit, In The Beginning. Communities often choose six people to help write the letters; Bet Haverim, unusually, decided to choose representatives from across the spectrum of the community. They also shared a little bit about their stories, and we connected that to the letter they’d chosen to write. This was nice.<\/p>\n

Before we started to write the Torah, I wrote the name of Amalek and symbolically crossed it out. I think most people didn’t get to see that up close, so here’s a picture:<\/p>\n

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After the ceremony, we spent the afternoon writing letters with individuals. I’m planning another post about just what that involves. In the meantime, a picture:
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Images in this post, except the Amalek one, are from the album at CBH’s Facebook page<\/a>. Check there for copyrights, attributions, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well! That was fun. I spent the weekend–as anyone reading this is probably aware–in Davis, connecting with people as we moved into Torah-writing time. Lots of this sort of thing: Teaching and learning with all age groups. More of that on later visits! (If anyone wants to cover anything particular, speak to your Torah committee, … Continue reading First visit to CBH<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbh-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}