sarah leah's bat mitzvah

sarah leah's bat mitzvah
Originally uploaded by nostalgist

Sarah Leah had her bat-mitzvah yesterday at Robinson's arch, in front on the Western Wall. She did a beautiful job reading the Torah and praying, but I kept remembering another, long-ago accomplishment. When she was quite small her neighbor came upstairs irate because Sarah Leah had scratched his van with a key. Louise, the loyal mother that she is, refused to believe it until she came downstairs and saw the evidence: Sarah Leah had inscribed her name, letter by letter, on the side of the van. "And she spelled it exactly right!" Louise said when she told me the story years ago, with unmistakable pride. They had a lot of reasons to be proud yesterday. Mazal Tov, Sarah Leah.