By Rachel Zamist | May 13, 2021
Prior to getting words to paper, thoughts ruminate in my mind for many weeks. It took some time to formulate, and a couple of days of procrastinating, to flesh out the comparison of a board game to my sefira chart and, really, my life. Often words flow easier when there is some conflict, either personal or national, that I’m trying to make sense of. When I heard the news of the tragedy in Meron, my immediate selfish reaction was, “How is this going to affect what I had in mind to write?”
Initially I sort of felt numb and couldn’t relate to any of the news. Hours later the news hit closer to home as the names of the kedoshim were names I recognized.
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Connecting to Tehillim
My connection to Tehillim began when I was
12 years old and part of a bas mitzva celebration with six other girls on a
Sunday morning at Congregation Agudas Achim Anshe Sphard, in Lower Park
Heights. In the faded green play folder I saved from the 50s is a cantata on “The
Seven Days of Creation,” written by Rabbi Harry Bolensky. In the cantata, Rabbi
Bolensky wrote “King David looked up and sang
Hashamayim misaprim kvod Kel,
uma’aseh
yadav yagid harake’ah, the Heavens declare the glory of the Lord, and
the sky testifies to the work of His hands.” Because I only had a Sunday School