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Special Cantor To The Deaf

(Continued From Previous Page) and the wall, which conduct sound. Corey would also watch my mouth. He’s a very talented lip-reader, and was able to piece this into his understanding of what music is. THAT NIGHT was a tremendous discovery - and it helped to shape the course of my life since. I discovered Congregation Bene Shalom and began working with it. “Shortly after, an old woman came up to me in the congregation after I had been singing and said she hadn’t heard a human voice that clearly in her whole life. Nobody had ever sung for her before - and I was singing for her!” There had been a congregation for the deaf in Skokie for twenty years, but it had no rabbi or cantor, and was run on a volunteer basis. The congregation would rent rooms in other synagogues for services since it could not afford a building of its own. At this point, a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College, Douglas Goldhamer, would fly in from Cincinnati to conduct weekly services for the congregation. The members of the congregation decided that they wanted to hire Goldhamer as rabbi when he completed his studies. IT WAS Ronald’s mother who suggested that they meet. Ronald recalls, “Rabbi Goldhamer and I talked about a service that would serve the needs of the deaf. He was taking sign language instruction in preparation for his fu-

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ture assignment. Deaf people wanted a real congregation. I was very enthusiastic when I heard of his plans and hopes. When he asked me to be the cantor of the congregation, I made one stipulation: I could not accept payment. This was to be my mitzva. ’’ From then on, Ronald drove 100 miles from Northern Illinois University every week to participate in services. His brother is a member of the congregation. His mother had assumed Corey would not have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony because he was deaf. Rabbi Goldhamer began to teach Hebrew to both the adult deaf and the children. Since then many have marked their Bar Mitzvahs with biblical readings -- including Corey. RONALD EXPLAINS the format of the service for the

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deaf. “The rabbi reads the prayer in Hebrew first. He then repeats it in English while using sign language. This has a function of expression, of drawing words out, as in music and dance. A sign can be made to shape a phrase so it’s not just words out of a book, but a feeling being expressed. Similarly in the sermons. Sign adds a dimension: like Marcel Marceau miming ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ and Orson Welles reading it. It combines vocal and visual communication. This is the essence of the services. When the rabbi reads from the Torah, again he reads first and then signs. Bar Mitzvah boys learn to pray in the same way the rabbi does and to deliver their sermon the same way.” Ronald chants the service (Continued On Next Page)

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