Storahtelling

That tradition mostly died out and became other ways of printing and translating and adapting the scriptures.

And sidebar, about twenty years ago in the beginning of the twenty-first century, I started a theater group in New York City called Storah Telling, where we combined Torah and storytelling and brought back the mevinim, the mavens, to talk back to Torah and to queer and feminize, to politicize and actualize and to use site-specific storytelling events as a way to ask the question, how can Torah still be meaningful to us and how do we evolve along with it? Storah Telling is still around, but I'm telling you all this because we, just like that guy who came to Hillel and Shammai, will be better knowing that whatever Torah is at its core both written and spoken.

So Ezra leaves us with the role of the interpreter, how to code switch between what was and what is.

And no Torah service, that still happens in every synagogue on Mondays and Thursdays where people come together for rites of passage or sacred storytelling.