My Jewishness Was Very Important to Me as a Child

I chose, at about seven, ah, to go to hebrew school. My parents didn't think it was a very important thing for a girl to do, but i begged them to go. And i ended up going to synagogue by myself, actually, every saturday. After my grandparents died, and we moved from one part of brooklyn to another,. It became very important for me. The music was very important. The stained glass windows were very important. But the sate aspect of the whole ritual, the service, was very important to me. All right. An old theological idea that we somehow am are the as the the eyes and the ears and the voice of the