Marching to Zion
Shavuot 2010, Beth Elohim NY
The spirit of Hashem is moving throughout the Israelite community. We can see the love and unity expressed at every service and event. This year the spirit of Shavuot was so high that at Beth Elohim we took our Torah scrolls and not only march around the sanctuary as we normally do, but we were inspired to celebrate the “Season of the Giving of Torah” by marching out of our synagogue and around the entire city block.
We had a police escort to control traffic when
necessary. Local residents, pedestrians, passengers in cars and buses
paused to take note of our holy procession. We felt proud and exultant
as we sang the praises of the Most High. In a sense we knew how the
Children of Israel felt moving through the wilderness with the Ark of
the Covenant. “…this is your wisdom and your understanding in the
sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say,
Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people… And what
nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous
as all this law, which I set before you this day?”
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