![]() It seems like such a simple - even simplistic - idea. And some of the other staff in the building even take a smile home with them! Some of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah parents like the few moments of relief from party-planning stress that the smile affords. After particularly challenging pastoral appointments, where a few tissues may have been used, some of my visitors have liked taking a smile home with them. I heard one girl remark, “I took one and hung it up on my bedroom wall!” I heard another student ask his friend, “Hey, did you get one yet?” And other students seem to like knowing that I am smiling at them, even while they are home. When my door is closed, and they don’t necessarily know I’m working inside, the religious school students walk over and discuss the smiles. ![]() Like the smile itself! □īut while I was nosing around looking for an explanation of the “take one” phenomenon, I found a wonderful story about how “ The Smile Experiment” worked in one religious educational community: “I figured, at the very least, that it would bring a passing smile to someone’s face who walked by,” writes Jewish Week online columnist Rabbi Marci N. ![]() I wondered where it started, but there doesn’t seem to be an origin story for this one - it’s one of those collective unconscious things that dozens of people thought up more or less simultanously and enacted spontaneously. It’s such a wonderful concept, the idea that instead of a phone number for a babysitter or a guy selling his guitar, you can simply take a smile with you. ![]()
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