Two pre-school girl friends pretend to get married.
Week 6-/(Yesod) BONDING-Day 1/(Chesed) LOVE
There are different ways people bond and different reasons why they bond. As a pre-school teacher my students like to have someone to play family with, to run around on the playground, someone to show the tower of blocks they have built, maybe to help them build it or show the picture they just created with markers. I think it probably isn't much different in the grownup world but like everything else we grownups complicate it. Yesterday a federal judge struck down Oregon's voter approved ban on same-sex marriage. Meanwhile today my class celebrated the thirty-third day of the omer, Lag B'Omer, by having pretend haircuts and pretend weddings. I told the children they could marry anyone they wanted as long as both people agreed to the marriage and I let them marry more than once. Some boys married girls, some girls married boys and some had same-sex marriages. As a previous student of mine put it when I asked him why he wanted to marry another boy "He just likes to do the same things I do." Not complicated at all.
After nightfall on Tuesday:
BA-RUCH A-TAH ADO-NAI E-LO-HE-NU ME-LECH HA-OLAM
ASHER KID-E-SHA-NU BE-MITZ-VO-TAV VETZI-VA-NU AL SEFI-RAT HA-OMER.
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.
Today is thirty-six days which is five weeks and one day of the omer.
I still quote your Solomonic judgment on this from when T's Moonbeam class did this activity and a classmate argued with my liberal daughter about whether same-sex marriage was allowed. Menuhah ruled: "In some states two girls can get married, in some states they can't. Here in the Moonbeam class, they can, but just like any wedding, both people have to agree to the marriage. So if you don't think two girls should get married, you don't have to marry a girl." Not complicated at all. Menuhah for Congress?!
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