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hen I was in the second
grade, my class put on a
play about Pesach. I was
to play
the heroine of the
story, Miriam, Moshe
Rabbeynu's older sis-
ter.
Me, playing the
wise Miriam, who
foretold the future
even as a child, and
was the impetus for
the Jewish people to
go on. Miriam, who
after the splitting of
the Red Sea, led the
women in song and
dance in praise of
HaShem. Miriam,
who is the foremost
example of what all
Jewish women are
meant to be. . .
Shira Traison
For a 7-year-old,
that was a fairly big
responsibility to undertake, and so I
did my research. As the days grew
closer to the big moment, I practiced
my lines, studied the Chumash, and
asked people all around me just what
it meant to be this famous Jewish
leader.
Despite my young age, I was
intrigued. The fact was, I was playing
Miriam at a trivial point in her life.
Not as she danced beating on a tam-
bourine, as a grown woman led out
from her exile, but as a 6-year-old
child, sending her newborn brother
out into the unknown, wrapped in
just a little ark made especially for
him. His future was uncertain, and
Shira Traison, 16, is an 11th grader
at Akiva Hebrew Day School in
Lathrup Village. She is a member of
Congregation Shomrey Emunah.
yet, her trust in God was all that she
could rely on. For all she knew, her
little baby brother could be picked
up by a savage, and led to lead a life
so foreign to that into which he was
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born. Even had she known that the
daughter of Pharaoh
would save him, his
future as a Jew was
hardly tenable.
Yet, with a strength
and a belief in God in
her heart, incompara-
ble to any other child
of that age, she sent
him on his way. I
thought a lot about
Miriam that month. I
thought about what it
would have meant for
a girl so close to my
age to have a belief
that strong.
As I stood by the
side of the makeshift
Sea of Reeds that
April day, I looked
down at the long blue
paper with lily pads
and red flowers painted upon it. I
placed the ark down, holding the
baby doll representing Moses, and
sang the song we had written for
Miriam.
Perhaps the deep understanding of
what Miriam stood for didn't affect me
as much in those days; but more than
ever, it affects me now To me, Pesach is
more than just a holiday of afikomen
and charoset. It's a holiday that only
ameliorates our strong belief.
As I sit at the seder table every
year, I always sing the songs a little bit ,—/
louder. I always read the paragraphs
with a little more interest. (I always
eat the brisket with a little more zest,
but that's a side point).
Every year, Pesach means some-
thing new and wonderful to me.
Every year, my faith grows stronger.
After all, Miriam started early. She
was only 6.