B'midbar

I don't think this was one of my stronger efforts, though people did compliment me on it. I wanted to start with the parsha (specifically the fourth aliya, Num 3:1-13) and get to Shavuot; maybe that was too limiting a goal.

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Shabbat

( chanting torah )

On the Shabbat of memorial-day weekend my rabbi always does something to acknowledge the holiday. Last night he read excerpts from a moving eulogy given at Iwo Jima by the first rabbinic chaplain in the Navy. The rabbi prepared the eulogy for a general memorial service (all religions), but chaplains from other religions objected to a Jew being allowed to speak at a combined service, so they ended up splitting people up by religion and only a small group heard the eulogy. Ah, here it is. Thank you, Google.