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This morning I was at Scarsdale Reform Temple. They were having a Yom Limmud (=learning day), and I was the Hands-on Hebrew exhibit.
Giving people the chance to have a try at real proper writing with a feather is such fun. I love how something so simple can mean so much to people, and more, that I get to be the one giving it! You know? I don't have much to give to comgregations by way of donations and so on, but I can give this.
Erev Shabbat I found alum! at last! I've been looking for it in all the supermarkets round about, and finally found it in the Foodtown in Kingsbridge. Even now I have a bunch of quills boiling in a solution of alum and salt. It's supposed to cure them - make them more hardwearing and less inclined to go soggy when wet. We shall see.
Giving people the chance to have a try at real proper writing with a feather is such fun. I love how something so simple can mean so much to people, and more, that I get to be the one giving it! You know? I don't have much to give to comgregations by way of donations and so on, but I can give this.
Erev Shabbat I found alum! at last! I've been looking for it in all the supermarkets round about, and finally found it in the Foodtown in Kingsbridge. Even now I have a bunch of quills boiling in a solution of alum and salt. It's supposed to cure them - make them more hardwearing and less inclined to go soggy when wet. We shall see.