My nephew, sixty-four years old and unschooled in Jewish practice, found himself crying when the Torah was passed down from two sets of grandparents, to the parents, and finally to my grandson at his Bar Mitzvah this past shabbes in Minnesota. The power of this choreography took him by surprise. The six of us who lined up to physically convey the teachi…
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