Inspired Teens Share Their Worlds

by Jessica Pauline Ogilvie, Contributing Writer

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/education/article/inspired_teens_share_their_worlds_20100302/

“We only know the worth of religion when it’s taken away from us, only know the worth of God and music when it’s not there. We’re all here for God, we’re all in health, holiness, happiness.”

It wouldn’t be hard to imagine this statement spoken by a learned old rabbi, ruminating over years of scholarly and spiritual teaching. But it’s a bit more difficult to reconcile the words with their actual source: a freckled, 15-year-old boy named Wyatt, wearing a bright purple T-shirt and Bermuda shorts. Explaining the meaning of his bar mitzvah speech, Wyatt is also divulging the ways in which he has found peace with the fact that he has autism.

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