[laughs]

Me either.

Simchat Torah was always an easy one to teach about though, in part because even though it's an important occasion, many of our less ritually observant families hadn't traditionally engaged around it.

And so relevance mixed with a measure of novelty, which is almost always a good recipe for at least some enthusiasm.

One of my favorite moments every year was what we just experienced a few minutes ago, when we would unroll the entire Torah and hold it up around the room so that the students could get some sense of its scope, not just intellectually, but also physically.

Our musical accompaniment wasn't quite as good as it was tonight, and, uh, I have to say, Cantor, where are you? Any time that you can slip the rainbow connection into a, a service, I'm cool with it.

We would often follow by passing an orphan Torah from the Holocaust from grade to grade.

[laughs]