Today was a wonderful day in Hebrew School as we began getting ready for our upcoming Family Shabbat Dinner. I hope you have received the email/flyer by now and are considering joining us as this has been an extremely uplifting and wonderful experience for the families who have taken part in the past. It also gives your child(ren) a first hand Shabbat experience.
We learned that there are two aspects to keeping Shabbat: 1) To Remember Shabbat and 2) To Protect Shabbat. Remembering Shabbat includes all the things we do for Shabbat. We brainstormed the things we already know that we do on Shabbat, some of the suggestions from the class were: Making Kiddush and Eating Challah (Noach), Spending time with Family (Leah), Going to Shul (Benyamin) and Reading and Resting (Eliyahu). Protecting Shabbat includes all the things we do not do on Shabbat. For our class purposes we are really only going to focus on the positive things we do on Shabbat.
I encouraged your children to do something special on Shabbat like have a family dinner, add an extra delicacy to dinner, invite a guest to dinner, etc. There are so many things we can do to honour the Shabbat and keep it holy. Every little thing we do in Honour of Shabbat can bring great blessing tour families and homes.
In Hebrew, we continued working on our hebrew script writing. We have thus far learned Aleph, Bet, Vet, Gimmel, Daled, Hei and Vov. Everyone is doing their work and completing their daily tasks. I encourage you, parents, to ask your child to show you these letters and how to write them.
In addition, we completed our Hebrew name artwork canvases. These should be kept and displayed in order to encourage your child to be proud of their Jewish identity and name. They all did a fabulous job on their project.
Next week we will be doing a Shabbat craft and learning a new list of vocabulary words that are relevant to Shabbat. Stay tuned.
Once again, almost everybody has a binder and writing utensils, if your child is the one that does not have these things PLEASE PLEASE get them the appropriate materials for school. Binder, subject dividers, pencils, pens, markers, scissors, gluestick, etc. The easiest thing to do is buy these things from Dollarama, put them in their hebrew school bag and leave it there from week to week.
Thank you and have an amazing week!
Rabbi B
