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Sunday: fun times with the girls on Drisha's high school program. Up close to the Torah (my Torah!), and then hands-on with quills and ink.
I had a particularly fine time with one young woman who sat looking despairing and (I think) was too shy to ask for assistance - I was informed by a group leader that she needed a helping hand, and so sat with her for ten minutes or so, and she got the hang of it quite beautifully. The way uncertainty, timidity and the expectation of certain failure changed into surprise and confidence and pride in her achievement...I love that.
They also asked who the first woman to write a Torah was, and I had to tell them, well, no-one knows because women in history haven't really had that much written down about them...but there is no record of a woman ever having written a whole Torah, so far as we know...they got awfully excited when they realised that the chunk of Torah in front of them is set to be the first! Bless :)
I had a particularly fine time with one young woman who sat looking despairing and (I think) was too shy to ask for assistance - I was informed by a group leader that she needed a helping hand, and so sat with her for ten minutes or so, and she got the hang of it quite beautifully. The way uncertainty, timidity and the expectation of certain failure changed into surprise and confidence and pride in her achievement...I love that.
They also asked who the first woman to write a Torah was, and I had to tell them, well, no-one knows because women in history haven't really had that much written down about them...but there is no record of a woman ever having written a whole Torah, so far as we know...they got awfully excited when they realised that the chunk of Torah in front of them is set to be the first! Bless :)
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