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Took Ansche Chesed's megillah down to Eichlers (Judaica place) in the city, to get it spell-checked by computer. They were sufficiently impressed that I am feeling rather good. Even the ultra-Orthodox-looking chappie, whom I would have expected to be disapproving, was very nice and said I had talent.
Thence to Ansche Chesed's Hebrew school (like Sunday school, a place where kids go after school to have religion drummed into them) to talk to them about How We Make Torahs. Learning from the tefillin wrap talk, I started by rolling out a Torah and letting them all come up close and look (but no touching!). Then they started asking questions which led nicely into the show-and-tell sofrut-materials part.
The rabbi thought he'd have a little joke with the kids. I'd explained about spellchecking by computer...
Rabbi: How can we tell that all the names of God are spelled correctly even without using a computer?*
Bright Kid: Because God would smite her?
good kid!
The rabbi also said it was nice to meet a sofer with a sense of humour. Which was nice.
And my grown-up student did her whole piece bang in tune today for the first time, which is such terrific progress.
* the Megillah does not contain any of the names of God
Thence to Ansche Chesed's Hebrew school (like Sunday school, a place where kids go after school to have religion drummed into them) to talk to them about How We Make Torahs. Learning from the tefillin wrap talk, I started by rolling out a Torah and letting them all come up close and look (but no touching!). Then they started asking questions which led nicely into the show-and-tell sofrut-materials part.
The rabbi thought he'd have a little joke with the kids. I'd explained about spellchecking by computer...
Rabbi: How can we tell that all the names of God are spelled correctly even without using a computer?*
Bright Kid: Because God would smite her?
good kid!
The rabbi also said it was nice to meet a sofer with a sense of humour. Which was nice.
And my grown-up student did her whole piece bang in tune today for the first time, which is such terrific progress.
* the Megillah does not contain any of the names of God
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