“If it became industry standard that artists’ work that was copied would be shunned, it would happen much, much less”
I was so disappointed by Shif’s decision to attend her best friend’s wedding instead of her boss’s. Her boss had become a friend, although for not quite as long as Yaeli, and Shif listed all the reasons she belonged in Baltimore: it was an out-of-town wedding, an only child, and Devorah didn’t have a large friend group. Yaeli’s wedding would have definitely been more fun, but Devorah’s wedding was certainly the bigger mitzvah. To the letter writer who wrote that you wouldn’t miss your sister’s wedding for your boss’s wedding — that’s the point. This wasn’t her sister’s wedding, and Yaeli would im yirtzeh Hashem make more weddings that she could attend. This was the one and only chance to be there for Devorah, and Shif blew it.
Deena L
I’m a kriah specialist with a background in special education and have been working with teenage students for almost 20 years. I’d like to highlight another real piece of bar mitzvah prep that begins way before we even open that calendar for the initial glance at dates.
When a teenage boy walks into my office and I tell him that the majority of my kriah clients are boys his age, the immediate, unanimous reaction is disbelief. Followed unanimously by relief.
Some of the students I meet will ask me, “How come I managed until now?” Some have realized on their own that the answer is, “I have a good memory.”
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