The Wall And The Rainbow

There are lots of walls. In Israel, there is a wall that religious Jews pray at and get peace from it.

There are other walls over there for other thoughts. Avanka and her husband prayed there for other times of good happenings. Some young men and young women hold their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs ceremonies there.

The young folks recite blessings and their family members join them and some of them hold a nice lunch or dinner to celebrate.

My children celebrated their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and recited blessings and other things they learned.

My daughter did her ceremony with other girls and then we had a lovely and delicious luncheon. My son had a luncheon after the morning services. The following evening we had a dinner for relatives and friends.

I had a small luncheon which Mom cooked and baked for weeks before and had it in the dining room and the living room.My brother had the same five years before.

We had it in the end of winter and Mom prayed it would not snow and it did not. A friend of his had one the week after his and a big snow storm of over 18 inches of snow appeared and no one showed up because of the heavy snow. Only the parents and grandparents walked for about a mile to the synagogue and all the food was donated two days later to a children's hospital in the neighborhood.

The wall in Israel had good weather and ours for my brother and I enjoyed our dates we had picked out a year or two before.

There is a saying "I am the treasure at the end of the rainbow."