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