Allowing us a glimpse not just of what Torah is, but what it does
Ifeel bad for the party planners and production teams who organize dinners and events these days. They’re forced to contend with dinner attendees in whom snowballing distractions and shrinking attention spans converge.
The ones who hire them don’t just want good food and pleasant entertainment, though — they also want the planning team to give each event personality, character, and heart.
And so it sometimes seems like we’re doomed to a diet of faux-hartz, synthetically produced emotion.
The production teams do their best, but what they are being asked to do is nearly impossible. You see, due to a feature in the way that the Manufacturer created the heart, it cannot be pre-programmed, and you never know what people will find moving or meaningful. If the schedule calls for three minutes of spontaneous anything — singing, dancing, cheering, reflection — then it is not spontaneous at all, and the people sense that.
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