how two days out can totally exhaust me these days!
My friends' eldest son, Rafi, celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday at the synagogue and then yesterday was the party. I think that Samuel and I arrived at shul by 9:15 Saturday morning, which is pretty close to the beginning of the first service and in more than enough time for the Torah service which begins at 10:00 a.m. I received the most incredible honour...I was asked to hold the Torah during the prayers. I'm sure I was absolutely glowing I was so happy!
Rafi did an amazing job in leading most of the service. It never ceases to amaze me how Jewish children, especially the boys, seem to undergo this incredible transformation upon attaining the age of 13 for boys and 12 for girls when they take on the responsibility of performing the mitzvot. All of a sudden girls become women and boys become men.
Rafi has inherited his father's voice which has a wonderful deep tenor to it. It is also easily apparent how well loved he is by the confidence and presence which he exudes and that was amply present on Saturday.
We left the synagogue around 2:30 p.m. after kiddush and then did some running around, including dropping off clothes for Grandpa Leo at the personal care home then picking up some shoes for my sister at the shoe repair in Grant Park Mall. We had an evening in, watching some of the episodes from the first season of Gilmore Girls that Jon & Michelle bought me as a present one year.
Then Sunday the festivities continued with a Bar Mitzvah celebration from 11:30 until 4:30 so we actually left about 5 p.m.!
We had another quiet evening and a reasonably early night but just being out those two days left me exhausted! I woke up about 8:30 this morning, got up went to the loo and then fell back into bed and didn't wake up until almost noon.
The effects of my brain injury are resolving but it amazes me how easily I become fatigued. It's not like I was mountain climbing all weekend or anything! Oh well.....c'est la vie!
Anyway, off to the doctor's now to get my prescriptions refilled....they are the ones that ward of the debilitating headaches that have plagued me since the collision....so I REALLY don't want to be without!
Have a wonderful day!
Barb
My friends' eldest son, Rafi, celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday at the synagogue and then yesterday was the party. I think that Samuel and I arrived at shul by 9:15 Saturday morning, which is pretty close to the beginning of the first service and in more than enough time for the Torah service which begins at 10:00 a.m. I received the most incredible honour...I was asked to hold the Torah during the prayers. I'm sure I was absolutely glowing I was so happy!
Rafi did an amazing job in leading most of the service. It never ceases to amaze me how Jewish children, especially the boys, seem to undergo this incredible transformation upon attaining the age of 13 for boys and 12 for girls when they take on the responsibility of performing the mitzvot. All of a sudden girls become women and boys become men.
Rafi has inherited his father's voice which has a wonderful deep tenor to it. It is also easily apparent how well loved he is by the confidence and presence which he exudes and that was amply present on Saturday.
We left the synagogue around 2:30 p.m. after kiddush and then did some running around, including dropping off clothes for Grandpa Leo at the personal care home then picking up some shoes for my sister at the shoe repair in Grant Park Mall. We had an evening in, watching some of the episodes from the first season of Gilmore Girls that Jon & Michelle bought me as a present one year.
Then Sunday the festivities continued with a Bar Mitzvah celebration from 11:30 until 4:30 so we actually left about 5 p.m.!
We had another quiet evening and a reasonably early night but just being out those two days left me exhausted! I woke up about 8:30 this morning, got up went to the loo and then fell back into bed and didn't wake up until almost noon.
The effects of my brain injury are resolving but it amazes me how easily I become fatigued. It's not like I was mountain climbing all weekend or anything! Oh well.....c'est la vie!
Anyway, off to the doctor's now to get my prescriptions refilled....they are the ones that ward of the debilitating headaches that have plagued me since the collision....so I REALLY don't want to be without!
Have a wonderful day!
Barb
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