SHIRLEY SWEET

I seldom attend Friday night services. In fact, I only go for Mom and Dad’s Yarhzeit and the High Holidays. But this year I went to Friday night services two weeks in a row. When I was at services for the Yarzheit service, the Rabbi announced that the following week he would be honoring my cousin, Shirley Sweet, for working in the Temple’s office for 50 years.

Well, of course I wanted to attend. In addition, there was a special dinner before hand that I knew I would enjoy. A friend agreed to go with me and so we went. When the Rabbi began reading the Torah portion during the service, I immediately recognized it as the same Torah portion read at my son’s Bar Mitzvah. What a coincidence that I had been at this very same service 30 year’s ago.

The Torah portion was about sacrifices and I remembered that Rick had been playing hockey that year and had to miss a hockey game the night he was Bar Mitzvhed – his example of a sacrifice .

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