The thirteen-year-old boy<\/p>\n
would become a Bar Mitzvah in the morning.<\/p>\n
At Shabbat services on the Friday evening before,<\/p>\n
he read his Torah portion in well-practiced Hebrew.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The congregation waited patiently \u2013 knowingly \u2013<\/p>\n
to laugh after the Kaddish, as they anticipated the<\/p>\n
soon-to-be-man would, per usual, gag and make faces<\/p>\n
after tasting the wine. It was tradition!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The young man took his first sip of wine\u2026 then he<\/p>\n
tilted back his head and raised the Kiddush Cup higher<\/p>\n
and higher until he drank the entire cupful of wine!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s ready for college!\u201d his Rabbi chuckled,<\/p>\n
the congregation letting loose their own stifled laughter.<\/p>\n
The Rabbi took the empty chalice from the man\u2019s hand<\/p>\n
and set it on the nearby table with the Shabbat candles.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s put this over here by the challah\u2026<\/p>\n
and the breathalyzer!<\/p>\n
Mazel Tov! Shabbat Shalom!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The thirteen-year-old boy would become a Bar Mitzvah in the morning. At Shabbat services on the Friday evening before, he read his Torah portion in well-practiced Hebrew. The congregation waited patiently \u2013 knowingly \u2013 to laugh after the Kaddish, as they anticipated the soon-to-be-man…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135342,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135326\/revisions\/135342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}