I share here a brief
portion of the words that Rabbi Noah Cheses, rabbi of the Young Israel of
Sharon, spoke on this past Sabbath as Joshua celebrated becoming a Bar Mitzvah with
the congregation.
Josh,
you understand very well about the importance of role models. Last week we had
a conversation about your role models. I asked you, “who do you look up to
most? Who do you want to be like someday?” You listed several family members but
you focused most on your Sabba. It was clear to me that you have a very special
relationship with him. I asked you what about him you look up to. You said “My Sabba
works very hard to support and care for his family. He has a cool job and is
also very gracious with his time. He is sensitive and kind. He has a positive
spirit and great attitude. When I got my first cell phone, he was the first
number that I put into my contacts even before my parents. In the first month we
exchanged over 1000 texts about baseball, football and life.”
Joshua later told Barry
that it was probably 1000 texts in the first two months, but who’s counting? What I know is that this far
exceeds all of Barry’s other texting combined.
Joshua is named after
Barry’s father of blessed memory, and he seems to have inherited his great
grandfather’s love of playing and following sports. Barry had enjoyed watching
baseball as a teenager but was never much into playing, and neither I nor our
daughters were particularly into athletics. So it is clear that this Joshua is
channeling his namesake.
Here are a few pictures
from the Saturday night party at “Launch.” The lighting is quite poor and I do
not have a camera that can do well in that setting, but you can get an idea of
just how athletic our grandson is!
Here are a couple of other pictures. Maya wore herself out jumping, while Simmie, Dina, Ella and Dina's friend Marissa took a break in the action.
Love,
Rebecca
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