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  • As the new year begins, JAO answers to 'Where are you?'

    Shari Wladis and Maura Weiner|Sep 13, 2013

    As the Jewish Academy of Orlando staff gathered early in the morning before Meet & Greet, Rabbi Sharon Barr Skolnik, the new Hebrew/Judaic curriculum coordinator, offered a prayer to begin the year. She spoke about the connection between the number 36 and the very first question asked in the Torah by God to Adam. When Adam and Eve broke God’s rule and ate from the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, they felt guilty and hid from God. God then asked, “ayeka,” “Where are you?” Although...