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Seeing Shavuot Through the Eyes of a Child

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My five-year-old grandson came up to me this week with a very important Shavuot request: he wanted pictures of the Torah and the Ten Commandments.

So we sat down together at the computer, searched for a few beautiful images, and hit print. When I handed them to him, he looked up with complete sincerity and said, “Hashem is so happy that you made these for me.”

For a moment, time stood still.

There was something deeply moving about watching the Torah become so real and exciting to him. To a child, these were not relics from an ancient civilization or abstract religious symbols. They felt alive, immediate, and personal. His excitement carried a........

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