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Tonight I was scheduled to teach a workshop at my synagogue on everyday blessings. I put together a plan combining text study, discussion, and experience (everything is better with food, right?). I am an inexperienced and nervous teacher, so I rehearsed more than a little bit.
Weather...happened. I was pleasantly surprised by the turnout, given that -- four students, one of them a rabbi. We discussed it (were the people who lived far away nervous about the continued snowfall?) and decided to do an abbreviated session tonight and reschedule for the full one. (I didn't want to punish the folks who actually showed up by saying "so sorry, try again later", but I also wanted people to be comfortable.)
We managed, and the rabbi was very supportive. We had some good discussions, I sent people home with handouts if they wanted them, and we'll save the text study and another exercise I'd planned for another time. Let's try spring. :-) (I'd actually like to do this when the flowers in the garden are in bloom; that'll give a good opportunity to talk about blessings for scents. There are, as Tevye says, blessings for everything. Well, almost everything.)
Weather...happened. I was pleasantly surprised by the turnout, given that -- four students, one of them a rabbi. We discussed it (were the people who lived far away nervous about the continued snowfall?) and decided to do an abbreviated session tonight and reschedule for the full one. (I didn't want to punish the folks who actually showed up by saying "so sorry, try again later", but I also wanted people to be comfortable.)
We managed, and the rabbi was very supportive. We had some good discussions, I sent people home with handouts if they wanted them, and we'll save the text study and another exercise I'd planned for another time. Let's try spring. :-) (I'd actually like to do this when the flowers in the garden are in bloom; that'll give a good opportunity to talk about blessings for scents. There are, as Tevye says, blessings for everything. Well, almost everything.)
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