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Another good Torah day! Remember the Megillah pics I posted below? Today it got delivered to its new owners, and we had a siyyum [knees-up in celebration of finishing something].* They hadn't seen the pictures, so they unrolled it and they were chuffed. They all read Megillah, so when the rolling came to each person's chapter they sang bits and it was nice!
At the end of the last column I'd left some letters incomplete - outlined but still with blank space, for people to fill in. I brought enough quills to have one each, and they practiced on paper, and then on klaf - we wrote Amalek and blotted him out, and then they were ready to go. They took it in turns - they said the kavannah with me, and then filled in the letters making up their Hebrew names, so they all had a go at engaging with their new family Megillah.
The best bit was when all the letters were filled in, and I'd written the last three words. The Megillah has the line "The Jews had light and celebration, rejoicing and glory," and since this is also in the Havdalah liturgy it has a cute tune, and the mum started singing it, and the dad got his clarinet and played it, and the girls sang along, and it was COMPLETELY LOVELY.
I like getting sifrei kodesh into people's lives.
* If anyone reading this has neither siyyum nor knees-up as part of their regular vocabulary, please say so - I'm curious...
At the end of the last column I'd left some letters incomplete - outlined but still with blank space, for people to fill in. I brought enough quills to have one each, and they practiced on paper, and then on klaf - we wrote Amalek and blotted him out, and then they were ready to go. They took it in turns - they said the kavannah with me, and then filled in the letters making up their Hebrew names, so they all had a go at engaging with their new family Megillah.
The best bit was when all the letters were filled in, and I'd written the last three words. The Megillah has the line "The Jews had light and celebration, rejoicing and glory," and since this is also in the Havdalah liturgy it has a cute tune, and the mum started singing it, and the dad got his clarinet and played it, and the girls sang along, and it was COMPLETELY LOVELY.
I like getting sifrei kodesh into people's lives.
* If anyone reading this has neither siyyum nor knees-up as part of their regular vocabulary, please say so - I'm curious...