One good thing I’ve been working hard on lately is attempting to get at least a month ahead on writing my bar/bat mitzvah lessons. There are no travel guides to success is this area, just a lot of study time, prayer time and writing time. Fortunately, I’m finally getting a handle on it, which is good.
It’s a bit of a challenge at the moment, because some of the lessons are on our literagy, while the rest of the lessons I’m writing are currently a multi-part character study on King David. We’re currently about to delve into David’s desire to build a cedar-wood house for Adonai, which God turns down and then makes a messianic promise to David to “make you a house” instead.
David’s life really is fascinating and I’m glad we have some open time to really help the kids explore it before Simchat Torah comes ’round and we have to focus on the Torah cycle. A little detour never hurt anyone.