Life Cycle Events

Consecration: The Honey on the Page

Our tradition tells us that at the commencement of religious learning for a young child, a swab of honey was placed on the pages of a book, and a “taste of sweetness” given to the student – so that the study of Torah would ever be “sweet” in our mouths and our minds. We welcome our K5 religious school and day school students into the study of Torah with a ceremony of Consecration held on Erev Simchat Torah. Our K5 students ascend the bimah, recite the Shema, are blessed, and receive their very own miniature Torah scroll.