I Can't Divide Myself In Thirds

This Shabbat any good social Shiloh citizen must be in three places at the same time.

In the main Mishkan Tabernacle Synagogue, one of the youngest (or the youngest) of a large family will be Bar Mitzvah. In the Hesder Yeshiva, there will be another Bar Mitzvah. This one will read in his traditional Yemenite way, even though on ordinary Shabbatot they doven with us in the very Askenazi shul. And in our small neighborhood shul in my backyard, there will be the Bar Mitzvah, delayed by seventy years, of a neighbor who's the patriarch of a three generation Shiloh clan. If I have the story right, he grew up in Scotland. He prepared for his Bar Mitzvah on time, but just before the special date the Germans began bombing, and all the children were evacuated to safety. Better late than never, even seventy years.

So, besides all the Torah reading, each family is making a Kiddush, a special snack/meal afterwards. There's no way we can get to all of them.

Mazal Tov!

Shabbat Shalom u'Mevorach

Have A Peaceful and Blessed Shabbat