{"id":1955,"date":"2008-10-13T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulanuarchive.kulanu.org\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:04:02","slug":"alex-armahs-visit-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/alex-armahs-visit-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Armah\u2019s Visit Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kulanu made possible a four-month visit from Alex Armah, teacher and spiritual leader of the Sefwi Wiawso community in Ghana to the Abayudaya in Uganda. We included excerpts from a few of his reports in the last Update and wanted to share this additional one:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Greetings to you all. It is my will to study and to teach my people in Ghana. As the studies are going on, I made my mind to trying to read from the Torah on Shabbat. So what I did was to see one of the Torah readers Isaac and told him I want to read the Torah on Shabbat.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-50\"><\/span><br \/>\nHe then encouraged me if I had the idea to read, I can read it. So, he let me practice with him for about thirty minutes, then he left me alone. That was Thursday. I kept on reading till Friday night when I told the Rabbi that I want to read from the Torah, on the Shabbat.<\/p>\n<p>The Rabbi too encouraged me I could read it so I have the hope about the reading. On Shabbat, the Rabbi read the first and the second part, then called me and blessed me and the community also sang a song to welcome me, because this is my first time reading from the Torah scroll. I must be bold and the Almighty will give me the wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>And I was able to read my portion that I must to read. I know by the time I leave to go back to my community, many things have changed. I give thanks to my Rabbi for giving me encouragement, day in day out.<\/p>\n<p>May the Almighty Bless him and give him peace. I greet you all.<br \/>\nThank you!<br \/>\nYours, faithfully,<br \/>\nAlex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kulanu made possible a four-month visit from Alex Armah, teacher and spiritual leader of the Sefwi Wiawso community in Ghana <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alex Armah\u2019s Visit Continues - Kulanu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kulanu made possible a four-month visit from Alex Armah, teacher and spiritual leader of the Sefwi Wiawso community in Ghana to the Abayudaya in Uganda.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/alex-armahs-visit-continues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alex Armah\u2019s Visit Continues - 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