Kim gives us a look at pre-Ancient Greek humor in the worlds of Egypt and Sumer, and Eastern humor from India and China. What would send a pharaoh into stitches? Aristophanes didn’t invent laughter. How universal was humor in the dawn of civilization?
** Because of predicted bad weather, the December 8th program has been cancelled
Mark Hart will give his talk about the Jewish ritual of donning the tefillin on Sunday, January 13, 2014, 2-4 pm.
Sunday, December 8, 2013, 2-4 pm – Donning the Tefillin: A Jewish Ritual with Mark Hart
Mark will explain the meaning of this ritual and its Scriptural source. Tefillin (also known as phylacteries) are worn by men in traditional synagogues for the morning worship except on Shabbat and Jewish holy days. The tefillin are leather straps holding small leather boxes in which are slips of parchment with passages from the Torah written on them. One box is worn on an arm, and the other on the forehead. (see online reference: http://www.myjewishlearning.com/practices/Ritual/Prayer/Ritual_Garb/Tefillin_Phylacteries_.shtml?p=1)