First Kvutzah for Ben

Ben had his first group of kids this afternoon.

Nili asked me at breakfast if I'd be willing to take a group of students up the Red trail this afternoon. And so, after lunch, I led a dozen fourth graders from Beit Rabban and their two teachers to meet the film crew at the peak to head with Nili and Pesach to the overlook.

On the way, a few of the faster hikers among them took a different side of the trail, forgetting what landmarks would show them where to turn. I fetched them and we got up a few minutes more to find Pesach, who'd come in search of us. I was thrilled to find him taking over, not knowing we would see him up there.

Eventually, Nili took over, introduced the latest challenge to the kids, and led them blindfolded in a single file line to their destination, where they would sit at the overlook, remove their eye-coverings, and bear witness to the awesome view. And at that point, I spent eight minutes hiking back down to see if there was any maintenance work to do. Not much more than putting tarps up around the hot tub for the weekend mikvah. Now, need to catch up on news of the day and then bike down to Kaufman to get my laundry.