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Simchat Torah

It's a couple of days early, by our synagogue had our Simchat Torah service today. The portions of the Torah are read in series during weekly services. This week we finish the Torah and start at the beginning, so we read the last few lines of Devarim (Deuteronomy) and the first few lines of Bereshit (Genesis). My sons are young, so to keep the interested (with all the singing and dancing) we explained the readings. Turns out, one of the favorite movies is Prince of Egypt so they were fascinated by Moses' last days, as well as being very sad that he actually died. But the very next moment, we have the creation of the world, and the usual discussion about on which day the big bang occurred; and how could there day and night before there were stars, etc. At anyrate, I was amazed at what interest there was in the bible sections... First, their hero from a Disney movie followed by science, with singing and dancing, and cookies to finish it off. Why wasn't synagogue like that when I was young?

Posted at 01:22AM Oct 14, 2006 by rezippel in Personal  |