Teaching is what I love to do. Teaching our children about Judaism and Erete Yisrael is what I’ve loved to do for so long. Now I am here. Visiting the synagogues in Tsafat today were especially meaningful.
As a child in Pittsburgh, my family belonged to a shul much like the one we saw today. Avi described what life was like in Tsafat. It was what I remembered…my grandmother and mother preparing and waiting for the men to come home from shul to begin every holiday together. Standing in front of the most beautiful Ark I’ve ever seen in Tsafat; synagogue and Torah.. it is what connects us.
Just a few weeks ago I was standing what a family in the Synagogue where I teach in Pittsburgh. It was the last week of Hebrew school and we were talking about summer plans. As I sat down to dinner in Tiberias, they were there. At the next table was the Cyril Wecht family. I went over to talk with several of the grandchildren who had been my students at Adat Shalom. I talked with their parents also. They were there… teachers, parents, children, and grandchildren. This land connecting us in so many ways.
Judy Sheffler