We made it!

Thank you to all those who read this blog and shared in the words of our congregants. And thank you so much to all who contributed as we counted down our march towards Sinai and Torah.

Here's one last bit of learning explaining why we'll have flowers for the confirmation class. See more at http://kehillatisrael.net/chagim/shavuot/index.html

At Shavuot it is customary to decorate the synagogue with greenery. Tradition maintains that Mount Sinai, despite being in the wilderness of the Sinai desert, was verdant, which is implied by the verse in Exodus 34:3, “...neither let the flocks nor herds graze.” Then the mountain miraculously flowered and bloomed in honor of the giving of the Law.