More opportunities to earn PPP hours. Help prepare snacks and facilitate lunchtime meals under the sukkah.

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 WEEKLY TORAH PORTION WITH RABBI BELLAS  

 

Shabbat Parashat Ha'azinu

A Call to the Heavens and the Earth

 

At the very beginning of this week's parasha, as Moses is continuing his farewell address to the children of Israel, he calls out the heavens and the earth to heed his message about the nature of God and the importance of being faithful to the Teaching that God has given as a gift to Israel. This "sermon" is a universal charge, not only directed to the people gathered around him at that point in time, but also to all generations to come. With the heavens and the earth as his witnesses and audience, Moses' message could endure for all time. The centrality and importance that Moses associated with this, his final speech to the people, begs the questions: What should our enduring instructions be? If we could create a proverbial time capsule, lifting a message to the heavens and implanting it on the earth for all time, what content would we include?

 

Our generation has an uncanny similarity to those to whom Moses was addressing his final message. The adults would be the ones who would soon cross over the Jordan River and conquer the Land of Israel. The younger generation would be entrusted with the responsibility of securing the land, fending off potential neighboring attackers, and helping the land to flourish as the Jewish people would settle and grow in its own homeland for the first time. Today, all these centuries later, it is our parents and grandparents generation that fought for and defended the establishment of the State of Israel back in the Promised Land and, as their descendants, it is our responsibility to help to safeguard and ensure its existence l'olam va'ed (for all time).  

  

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Shabbat Shalom and Moadim L'simcha as Sukkot approaches!

Kindergarten students built (and ate) sukkahs out of graham crackers in their Hebrew class with Morah Lyora.

Rabbi Bellas led fourth grade students in a moving mezuzah ceremony to inaugurate the Grade 4 portables. According to tradition, one needs to affix a mezuzah to a doorway within 30 days. The students above scrambled to be the first to receive its blessings.

Our Grade 1/Grade 7 Buddies program started last week. This is a highlight for so many of our students at both ends of the age spectrum.


Learning Uncommon!
Despite the addition of some new workspaces in the school, this sixth grade student chose the lunch totes as his preferred place to get things done.

Thank you, Bob Almas, for 21 years of dedicated service to our school. Bob retires from our accounting office today.