What a fun and educational morning yesterday for grade 5!
Thank you to the men's club and most especially to Dan Zwelling for explaining the tradition of tefillin.
Each child was able to build and design his/her own pair of tefillin.
Dan explained that the shema prayer was written on a scroll inside each box.
This is an outward symbol of the words, "love G-d with all your heart, strength, and mind. Bind these words.......upon your arm and place them as a symbol between your eyes.....
We wrap the tefillin straps around our arm, and around our head.
In so doing, we are living those words, and displaying them on our bodies.
I took many photos, and emailed one set to the families while there. I had hoped to send more, but I had no internet until this morning. We had lost power with the first storm ......and the power surge was too much for our poor defenseless Internet, tv, and phone.
(yayyyyy ,it's all back!)
Earlier in the morning, I introduced the Torah portion. Mishpatim, which means judgements.
Sam, an avid football fan, asked if he could make a connection to the portion, and talk to the class about the judgements concerning tom Brady and Peyton manning!
I was excited to see that in this way, Torah remains relevant......even in the case of the Super Bowl in 2016!
Of course I said yes!
: ))
Cindy
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