At the reading for
English speakers, some of the listeners on the men's side,
and some on the women's
side, were encouraged
by Megilah reader-jester
Leibush Kaplan to stamp out Haman;
while Rabbi David Notik
supervised his son reading for the Russian olim,
and R. Shaul Leiter
checked Rabbi Y.Y. Veleshansky reading for the IDF soldiers--
--some of whom were
paying close attention but some not,
while others were quite
enthusiastic,
as were some of
the Americans at the party afterwards,
while others devoted
themselves to preparing Meshalach Manot,
of which this package
was one final result.
Daniel Posner is a computer maven and photo journalist who
recently moved to Tsfat from Crispin in the Golan. Yerachmiel Tilles is
one of the founders of ASCENT, and the director of the ascent-of-safed
and Kabbala Online websites.