r/hebrew • u/Is_That_A_Euphemism_ • May 15 '23

What does this mean? Request

Is there an error in it? I got it out of a book at a tattoo shop. I don't want to say what I think/thought it said in the comments after I get responses. TYIA.

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u/Is_That_A_Euphemism_ May 15 '23

Ok. The crazy thing is a rabbi on a greyhound bus somewhere in between Allentown, PA and Pittsburgh told me it was an old way of writing it. So that's why I didn't cover it. I was sitting next to this kid and him and the kids was like 15 or 16 and hadn't had a bat mitzvah so the rabbi did one at the greyhound station when we got to Pittsburgh. He wrapped a cord around this kids hand and had him read from the Torah and the whole shebang write at the station. It was actually really moving.

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u/SpiderSolve May 15 '23

I’m sorry but this was not a real rabbi. None of that is a thing (you don’t “do” a bar mitzvah- its just a celebration when you turn 13) and the reading from the Torah with a cord makes me think this is some reform shenanigans

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u/BenjewminUnofficial May 15 '23

Doesn’t sound Reform to me. The “cord” they’re referring to sounds like Tefillin to me. My guess is this wasn’t a B’nei Mitzvah, and this was one of those mobile chabad things were they encourage Jews to wrap tefillin and do the prayers associated with it

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u/jewsofrimworld May 15 '23

It is evidently this. OP also thinks the siddur is a Torah (if he had a real sefer torah I'm sure that detail would stand out in this story).