Back in 2005, I was invited to attend shabbat service one saturday morning.
The night before attending, I had two vivid dream sequences.
In the first dream, I was back in my old neighborhood in Buffalo, on the corner of Rustic, and Doat, between resurrection church, and the Restonic Mattress factory. A group of teenage girls passed by, carrying a large, scaffold-like contraption over their heads.
one of the girls looked puzzled, as not knowing the direction she should go. I gave her some direction.
In the second dream, we were seated at table
in the living room of my home in kenmore, my late mother-in-law Ruth (ne Hatzel) was seated at the table, along with a young lady with long dark hair. the young lady handed me a wafer dipped in honey, and would not eat until I did. then all of us ate our wafer and honey, and we were all very happy.
At temple six hours later, I met a young man Gabriel, who explained that his sister Leah was to be batmitzvahed this morning. In the service,
several young ladies canted the scripture in hebrew, on Beth Zion's beautiful altar.
The stained glass Jacob's Ladder window behind
them reminded me of the girls scaffold in the dream. After reading from the two torah scrolls, the girls processed around the temple, allowing us to touch the scrolls.
I related the story to her, briefly, in her receiving line, and she was as happy to hear that, as was the girl in my dream.
Do your dreams come true?
at temple?