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from an actual sofer. He will conduct a
program relating to the 613th mitz-
vah, the obligation of every Jew to
write or cause a sefer Torah to be
written.
Groups were able to participate in
what Simons described as a quiz
bowl game,
"The Other
612," where
teams answer
questions in
categories asso-
ciated with
some of the
additional
mitzvot. Led
by B'nai
Moshe's Cantor Earl Berris, students
received points for answering ques-
tions while committee members
hummed the "Jeopardy" tune in the
background.
Across the hall, a Torah was
unrolled for all to touch and view.
Simons said it was "opened to the
appropriate parsha (chapter) where it
says that we have to lay tefillin. This
is so the kids will see the words of
the Torah, where the mitzvah comes
from.”
B'nai Moshe Rabbi Elliot Pachter
and Len
Wanetik,
Torahteynu
committee
member,
instructed the
groups on the
mitzvah of
putting on
and taking off
tefillin, and
the related blessings. This mitzvah
was chosen because of its close rela-
tionship to the Torah-scribing mitz-
vah, because of the tefillin's parch-
ments and lettering.
Wearing tefillin for the first time
ever was Alex Weberman, 6, and
Alex Weberman, 6,
wore tefillin for
the first time.
Dan Sperling, for the first time since
his bar mitzvah 20 years ago.
Sperling said he "became a lot more
active in the shul" since his son,
Joshua, 5, "started attending the
LIFE program." Alex found the
process "cool" as his dad, Ed,
wrapped the leather strap seven
times around his arm.
Each student left the event with a
reminder: Thou shalt go home
the taste of a Hershey's kiss received
as a keepsake of the sweetness of the
Torah. Thou shalt not only remem-
ber what was learned about mitzvot,
but thou shalt observe them, and
thou shalt continue to learn with
your family.
And thou .shalt know, as Simons
explained, "what a treasure the
Torah is and that it is not something'
that is learned overnight, but rather
is studied through the years and
learned over and over and over
again." Fl
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Palmer of '
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Kal Nager of
West
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show fancy
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Temple Israel's Singles Extension Group,
for Jewish singles 50 and older through-
out the area, enjoyed dancing to the beat
of Wally Duda and kosher hot dogs with
all the fixings at a winter picnic Feb. 11.
SEG President Ethel Traurig and
Al Sofferin, both of West
Bloomfield, hit the dance floor.
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