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USCJ EC Staff Meeting Shiur - October 2005
- www.dorldor.com/newjewels.html
Questions for Discussion:
- On Simchat Torah we finish reading the Torah and immediately begin again. Why do we do this, year after year?
- How does Torah touch your heart?
- Represented by a piece of jewelry in the illustration above, (because we can express ourselves in many different ways), this sentiment, created by the seamless act of ending and beginning again, has been explained in many ways. One commentator tells us that the Torah is the lev - the heart - of the Jewish people. Arnold Gluck wrote in Torat Hayim - Living Torah in October 2, 1999: "In that magical and sacred moment of renewal, the last letter of the Torah, lamed, joins the first letter of the Torah, bet, to spell out the Hebrew word lev, which means heart. Like a wedding ring that has no beginning and no end, the linkage of the lamed and the bet that forms the word lev reminds us that the Torah links our hearts to the Heart of the universe. The Torah was given to us to incline our hearts toward God and toward one another."
- In what other ways might you explain the lev we discover on Simchat Torah?
- How can you insure that your children discover and embrace the lev of Torah in your classroom?
Some material from:
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Maxine Segal Handelman
Consultant for Early Childhood Education,
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
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