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Dear Esther,
I read your article “Making Tehillim Mine” and felt myself tearing up.
I, too, can read. I actually taught various subjects from seforim inside with very little issue because I prepared the pesukim and mefarshim well. But I, too, struggle with fluency. When it comes to saying Tehillim it’s a nightmare. I recall the days in school when we would be asked to read Tehillim pasuk by pasuk, finishing a perek or two, going around the class. I am not shy. I am not quiet. I don’t think there was anyone whom you had to strain to hear more than me.
I joke that I know the first 30 perakim really well, because I always start with the aim to finish and stop around there. I also know the last bunch, both because of davening and also because many Shabbosim I would be inspired to do the “yom.”
But from 30 to 120… all bets are off. To borrow from Dr. Seuss, I will not take them on a chat, I will not take them on a card, I will not take them in a group, I will not take them on my own, I will not take them on a plane, I will not take them on a train… you get the idea!
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