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ROSH HASHANAH
TISHREI CALENDAR
YOM KIPPUR SUKKOT SHMINI ATZERET
9/18/2009 9/27/2009 10/02/2009 SIMCHAT TORAH
Light candles 7:24 pm Light candles 7:09 pm Light candles 7:01 pm 10/09/2009
9/19/2009 Fast begins 7:09 pm 10/03/2009 Light candles 6:50 pm
Light candles* after 8:20 pm Kol Nidrei 7:09 pm Light candles* after 7:57 pm Hakafot 7:00 pm
9/20/2009 9/28/2009 10/10/2009
Shofar 11:15 am 10/04/2009
Yom Tov ends 8:18 pm Yizkor 11:30 am Yom Tov ends 7:55 pm Yizkor 11:00 am
Neilah 5:15 pm Light candles* after 7:46 pm
Yom Kippur/Fast ends 8:05 pm Hakafot 7:15 pm
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Your very own Shofar
September 18—20, 2009

❍ Light holiday candles (girls) YOM KIPPUR

❍ Eat a festive meal
Pre-Yom Kippur: Sept. 27
❍ Dip apple in honey
❍ Kapparot
❍ Listen to the Shofar
mball Machine ❍ Ask for forgiveness
Giant Gu ❍ Tashlich
❍ Eat festive meal before fast
❍ Light holiday candles (girls)

Yom Kippur: Sept. 28

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❍ Fast
❍ Wear non-leather shoes
October 2–9, 2009
❍ Go to Synagogue

❍ Light holiday candles (girls)

❍ Eat in the Sukkah
❍ Shake Lulav and Etrog SHMINI ATZERET
❍ Dance in the Synagogue Mega Jeng
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TORAH October 9–11, 2009

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Shake,
Rattle,
& Roll!
On Sukkot, Jews around the
world take 4 different plants
which represent 4 parts of the
human body and SHAKE them
together in all directions!
The LULAV is a palm branch,
1 the tallest of the bunch.
This represents the SPINE.
HADASSIM are myrtle branches
with sweet-smelling leaves
2
shaped like an EYE.
ARAVOT long willow
3 branches whose
leaves look like LIPS.
And the ETROG is the
citron which represents
4 the HEART.
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RAIN DANCE
All of the 4 kinds need a lot of water to grow.
The Lulav grows in watered valleys,
Hadassim and Aravot grow near water
sources, and the Etrog requires much
more water than other fruit trees. By
taking these species and waving them in all
directions, we are symbolically showing that
we want enough rain for the entire world
for the coming year.
PALM READING
The Lulav comes from a palm tree, but not any old palm tree – a
Date Palm. In 2005, Israeli scientists found a 2,000 year old date
palm seed amongst the ruins of MASADA. They planted it, and as
of June 2008, this healthy, 4-foot tall date palm now holds the
record for the oldest germinated seed. Its name? Methuselah –
after the longest living person in the Torah!
DR. WILLOW, I PRESUME?
In ancient Greece and Egypt, the leaves of the willow tree were
used as a remedy for fever. For centuries, Native Americans
across the American continent used it as a remedy for all
kinds of aches. Thousands of years later, the world
was formally introduced to
the wonderful medicinal
qualities of the willow,
in the form of
Acetylsalicylic acid -
otherwise known as:
Aspirin!
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ONE FOR ALL

AND ALL FOR ONE!
Jewish unity is one of the central themes
of Sukkot. The four kinds symbolize four
types of Jews, with different levels of
Torah knowledge and observance.
Bringing them altogether shows that
no matter how different we may be,
we remain a strong, proud,
Every Jew wants to participate in the united Jewish nation!
EXPRESS Mitzvah of shaking the 4 kinds on
DELIVERY Sukkot, and Private First Class Gavin
Ellman is no different. That is why
two years ago, when she found herself
stuck in Kalsu, Iraq without a Lulav
and Etrog, she emailed an emergency
SOS to her army chaplain, Captain
Shulman in Baghdad to see what he
could do. Sure enough, Shulman had a
spare set delivered to him by the Aleph
Institute in Florida, an organization
which provides Jewish soldiers with
assistance and materials for
holiday celebrations. Shulman
found a helicopter destined to REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
Kalsu and placed the precious cargo on What happens to our Etrog and Lulav set after
board…just in time for Gavin to celebrate Sukkot? Some people have a custom to set aside their
the holiday of Sukkot! Lulav and save it until Passover, when they burn it
together with any Chametz they may have found.
Some people will take the Aravot branches used on
the last day of Sukkot, called Hoshanah Rabah, and
ETROG COUTURE throw them on top of the ark in the Synagogue. Some
It may feel like a lemon, it may look like like to use their Etrog to make Etrog-jelly (you’ll need
a lemon, but the Etrog is most certainly a bunch of Etrogs for this one – see if your neighbors
not a lemon! In fact, while a will give you theirs). And some like to pick off the
lemon may cost 50 individual sweet-smelling Hadassim leaves and use
cents in your local them for the after-Shabbat Havdalah service.
supermarket, an
What will you do with yours?
Etrog can cost
anywhere
between $50
to $500 US Making the blessing and shaking all 4 species together is
dollars! Don’t the perfect way to show G-d how happy and ready we are to
serve Him with our entire body and soul!
go squeezing
The first time you do this Mitzvah this year, say blessings 1 and 2.
this citrus over For the rest of Sukkot, except for Shabbat when we do not touch the Lulav and Etrog, say blessing 1:
your garden
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Ve-kiye-ma-nu Ve-hi-gi-ah-nu Liz-man Ha-zeh.

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SHAUL KISH AVIEL TZEROR B’CHORAT A F I AC H B I N YA M I N

Name: Shaul Hamelech

Passed Away:28th Elul, 2884 (877 BCE)
Wife: Achinoam

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Children: Yehonatan, Ish-Boshet, Malchishua,
Avinadav, Merav and Michal.
Claim to Fame: Crowned as the first Jewish king
in 2882, and was the father-in-law of King David.

The man’s humility was so great that, when he returned home, he

did not even tell his father that he had been chosen to rule the
people.
“Here is the man Hashem has chosen! There is none like him in
Israel!” proclaimed Shmuel, who Hashem had commanded to
anoint Shaul as king.
King Shaul “Long live the King!” roared the people.
And so, Israel’s first king reluctantly began his rule.

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His courage was as great as his humility. He fought many
t was among the jars in the storage room they found
successful battles against the enemies of Israel. At the end of his
him, trying to hide from the honor and prestige. “I am
rule, he heroically went to war against the Philistines, even
not worthy! Leave me, please!” he begged.
though he knew from a prophecy that he and his sons would fall.
Ignoring his pleas, they pulled him out and
David, his son-in-law and the next king of Israel,
made him stand before all the people. Deeply
wept bitterly for Shaul and his son, Yehonatan,
embarrassed, Shaul tried to shrink as small
when he was told of their deaths in battle.
as he could, despite his towering height.
“How the mighty have fallen!” he
The people were impressed by his
mourned.
humility, but they refused to accept
it. They had asked for a king to rule Shaul’s death was on the 28th of
over them, and here he was. Elul, the month in which we
prepare ourselves spiritually to
All Shaul had done was go
crown Hashem as our King on
search for his father’s donkeys.
Rosh Hashanah. Just as the
He never did find them.
people demanded that Shaul
Instead, he found Shmuel
rule over them as king, so too in
HaNavi (the prophet), who told
Tishrei, do we loudly proclaim
him that Hashem had chosen
Hashem as King of the world!
him to be king.

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Past present
Imagine you live in London.
Imagine you live in London in the
year 1800.
Imagine you live in London in the
year 1800, and your best friend
lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
How long will it take to visit?
5-10 months, if not more. Make sure
to take a sturdy pair of shoes with
you—there’ll be plenty of walking.
And a couple of swimming lessons
would come in handy as well—just in
case you get shipwrecked, or captured
by pirates!
Even traveling to a nearby town like
Manchester would take a good 2-3 days
of hard walking or riding on a horse
and buggy if you were really lucky!
That’s right! G-d will ensure that every one of us gets a first-class pass
In the last two
centuries, the train,
the car, the plane and
the jumbo jet were all
invented. Flying from London to Cape
Town takes a mere eleven hours, and we’d
arrive in Manchester after just 2 hours on a comfortable train.
In the last two hundred years, travel has progressed to a point our
great-grandparents never even dreamed of! There are over 50 thousand
commercial flights every day carrying people to different locations
around the globe in less time than it would have taken to travel from
one village to the next.
Believe it or not, the first commercial flights to the moon are soon
becoming available! Of course, you do need a
spare $100 million to
pay for the trip, and
there’s no such thing
as a one-way ticket!
FUTURE
When Moshiach comes, Jewish people around
the globe will gather in the land of Israel to celebrate
the arrival of peace and harmony to the world.
How will we get there? Cloud Power!
to Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel) on the clouds of the sky.
No tickets, no turbulence, no waiting in transit and best of all, it will
be a time of peace and harmony!
The advances of the last two centuries are a true
sign of the times, the times of Moshiach!
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Rosh Hashanah
The start of the Jewish New Year, a time when we are judged for our
past actions, and resolve to be even better for the new year ahead of
us. It is also the birthday of the world, and a time when we proclaim
G-d as King of the Universe, by blowing the
Shofar out loud! Every good deed makes a
big impact. Every one of us can make a
difference and change the world we live
in, for the better. Let’s make
this year a good and
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HOLIDAY
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TEMPORARY DWELLING
Sitting in this temporary dwelling, with a roof made
of leaves and branches isn’t just an excuse to get in
touch with nature. It reminds us of the Clouds of
Glory which protected us when we were traveling for
40 years in the desert. Sitting in the Sukkah shows
our appreciation of how G-d took care
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of us today!
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Every day of Sukkot except for Shabbat we take THE 4 KINDS,
hold them together and shake them in all directions to show
that G-d is found everywhere. The Etrog, Lulav, Hadassim and
Aravot are also a great reminder that it takes all types of
people to make a world, and everyone is equally important
and loved in the eyes of Hashem.
A. Etrog Citrus fruit x1
B. Lulav Palm branch x1
C. Hadas Myrtle branch x3
D. Aravah Willow branch x2

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There are so many Mitzvot to do on Sukkot:

Sitting in the Sukkah, special blessings to say before we eat
in the Sukkah, shaking the Lulav & Etrog – and then right
after Sukkot comes the holiday of Shmini Atzeret and
Simchat Torah – where it’s actually a Mitzvah to get up
and dance! Sukkot is truly a time of rejoicing, a
time to thank G-d for all the good He has
done for us, and the constant protection
He gives us.

DO JEWS GO CAMPING
FOR SEVEN DAYS OUT OF THE YEAR !?
Not really…but we do eat, drink and pretty much
spend as much time as we can inside the Sukkah.
Celebrating Sukkot is easy – just enjoy your time in
the great outdoors! Plus, this is one Mitzvah that
we can do with our whole bodies – just don’t forget
to say the special blessing as you sit and eat inside Say this blessing every time you eat bread in the Sukkah.*
the Sukkah this holiday.
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Baruch Atah Ado-noi Elo-hei-nu Melech Ha-olam Asher
Ki-de-sha-nu Be-mitz-vo-sav Ve-tzi-vanu Lay-shev Ba-sukkah

*The first time eating or doing a Mitzvah in a Sukkah, add blessing 2 on page 5

it’s Simchat
Torah!
The last holiday of Tishrei is Simchat
Torah. We started with Rosh Hashanah
at the head, and now we’ve moved to
Simchat Torah at the feet! Not everyone
has the same capabilities when it comes
to learning, but we can all celebrate
with the Torah.
On Simchat Torah we dance in the
Synagogue together with the
Torah, rejoicing in our unity. Happiness breaks all
boundaries, and Simchat Torah is the perfect way to
show G-d how happy we are as a proud Jewish nation.

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JUDGMENT DAY
E very month in the Jewish calendar has a specific symbol that
corresponds to that month. The symbol for Tishrei is a scale, the
symbol of judgment. This is because Tishrei is the head of the new year,
the month in which G-d takes a close look at our actions of the previous
year and decides what’s in store for us in the year to come. The days
between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are called the Ten Days of
Repentance, a time when we can ask G-d for forgiveness for anything we
may have done wrong, and vow to try harder and improve the following
year. Let’s make this year a better year for everyone and ask G-d for
peace and happiness with the coming of Moshiach!

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I Shpy a walnut, a Shofar and a quill,

2 types of palms and a hundred dollar bill.
A carrot, a bell, a shoe without its match,
The king of the jungle and a glove
with which to catch.

I Shpy an Etrog, a scale and a key,

2 flags from different countries
and a healthy apple tree.
A Challah that is round and a Torah unrolled,
A candle that is lit and a crown of precious gold.

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Jewish

History
Babel (or Babylonia) was
ruled by King Nimrod, a cruel
and wicked idol-worshipper. One night,
Nimrod’s astrologers read in the stars
that the newly-born child of Terach – the
chief advisor to Nimrod’s cour t, was to
become the head of a mighty nation.
Nimrod became afraid that this boy
would grow up to overthrow his own
kingdom! He immediately commanded
Terach to bring his son to the palace to

Abraham
be killed. Terach managed to fool the
king, and convinced him that he had
followed his orders. In reality, he
secretly hid his son in a faraway cave!

The child was called Abram,

and he remained in the cave until he was
t’s well known that Adam

I was the first human being to

be created – and his birthday
is on Rosh Hashanah!
ten years old. During this time, he would
watch the sun rise every morning,
bathing the land in warmth and
light and helping things to
grow. He soon decided that
But do you know who was the the sun had to be god of the
very first Jew? Abraham! world.
But something troubled
One thousand, nine hundred and Abram. Each night, the
forty-eight years after Adam was sun sunk low in the sky and
created, a baby boy, who would the moon appeared to push
it away. If the sun could be
grow up to transform the entire pushed away by the
world was born! How did moon, then there had to
Abraham become the first be a more powerful god!
Jewish person and how did he
change the world?
To answer those questions we
need to delve deep into the past Year
and go back in time… all the way
to a place called Ur in the ancient
1
From
Creation
country of Babylon! Adam
Created
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said,” replied Abram. “These statues have
By the time he was three years old,
no power at all. They are merely blocks of
Abram concluded that there must be a
wood and stone. How do you worship
great power that had created,
and therefore controlled,
every single thing in
this world –
including the sun
and the moon. This
great power must
indeed be Hashem – G-d of
the universe! Abram had discovered the
existence of one true G-d. Hashem
revealed Himself to Abram and taught
him the right way to live.
Abram grew up and wanted
to teach his family and
friends about Hashem. He tried
doing everything in his power to crush
the foolish belief in idol-worship that was
practiced by everyone around him, but
his father Terach remained unconvinced.
One day, Abram took an axe and
destroyed all his father’s idols, leaving
just the largest intact. Terach furiously
accused his son of destroying his gods.
“But father,” Abram replied, “it was the
largest idol that did it. He was hungry
and wanted to eat first, so he smashed all
the other idols!”
“Impossible!” spluttered
his father. “These idols
are made of wood,
stone and gold. They
cannot move or walk
or talk!”
“Listen to what you just
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them.”
When King Nimrod heard of Abram’s
rebellious behavior, he ordered him
brought to his palace, to be thrown into a
fiery furnace alive! Hundreds of people
came to watch the son of Terach be
punished for his impudence against the
gods. Abram faced the crowd and
exclaimed that no one, not even Nimrod
had any power against the will of the one
true G-d of the universe!
His courageous speech stirred many
hear ts and everyone wondered whether
Abram was right.
They did not have to wait long. Abram
was thrown into the furnace, but the fire
did not even harm one hair
on his head! The people
could see Abram
walking around in
the furnace. It
was obvious G-d
was with him!
Abram left Ur and
escaped to
Mesopotamia with many
followers who accepted and believed in
Hashem. Amongst them was Eliezer of
Damascus who would later become his
most trusted servant.
Abram settled in Haran and
married a beautiful lady
1948
Abram
born
called Sarai. Together, the two of
them devoted their lives to helping
strangers, and spreading Torah
and the way of G-d. They
were famed for their
hospitality, and
had a special tent
with 4 doors, ready
to welcome guests
from all directions.
One day, when Abram was
75 years old, Hashem
appeared to him and said:
“Go out of your country, from your
birthplace, from the house of your father,
to a land which I will show you!” He then
blessed Abram and told him a great
nation would come from him.
Without hesitation, and without any
questions, Abram did as G-d told him. He,
his wife Sarai and nephew Lot traveled to
the land of Canaan. When they arrived,
Hashem appeared again to Abram
and said; “I will give this land to
your children!” This country was none
other than Eretz Yisrael – the land of
Israel. G-d designated the holy land of
Israel to Abram and to his descendants
– the Jewish people!
Shortly after Abram arrived,
a terrible famine broke out in
the land, forcing him and his family to
travel to Egypt to buy food. The Pharaoh
of Egypt saw how beautiful Sarai was and
wanted to marr y her, but G-d punished
him, causing painful boils to break out all
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over his body. Pharaoh
returned Sarai to Abram,
then sent them away with
many gifts and servants.
Abram returned to Canaan a
very wealthy man. He had
hundreds of sheep and cattle
and divided his flocks with
his nephew Lot. Lot and
his shepherds decided to
leave Abram and settle in the city of
Sodom, in the Jordan valley, which was
known for its lush, green pastures and
beautiful surroundings.
But Lot soon found himself in
the middle of a terrible war!
Four neighboring kings decided to wage
war on the five kings of Jordan, and a
desperate battle was fought. The five
kings lost the battle, and all their people
and possessions were captured by their
conquerors… among them, Abram’s
nephew, Lot!
Armed with absolute faith in G-d, Abram
gathered 318 men, and marched into the
enemy camp. G-d made an incredible
miracle for them! As the
men picked up handfuls of
sand to throw towards the
enemy, it immediately turned
into sharp arrows and deadly
spears! The four kings were
vanquished, and Lot and the people
of Sodom were freed!
After this victory, G-d appeared to Abram
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and promised him further protection and
great rewards. Abram cried out: “What use
are riches to me if I have no one to pass
them to?”
G-d called Abram out of his
tent and told him to look
towards the heavens. “Can you
count the number of stars? They are too
many to count. Like the sands of the sea –
so shall be the number of your
descendants!” G-d blessed
Abram that he and
Sarai would have a
son who would be
the start of a great
nation.
When Abram turned
85, his wife Sarai
told him to marry her maid Hagar, in the
hopes that he would have the child that
he longed for. She soon bore him a son
whom he called Ishmael. But Ishmael did
not grow up as his father had hoped. He
worshipped idols and went against all that
Abram had taught him.
When Abram was 99 years
old, G-d appeared to him
again. This time, He changed Abram’s
name to ABRAHAM, meaning “the father
of great nations.” Sarai’s name was
changed to SARAH, meaning “princess to
the world.”
G-d made an everlasting covenant
(promise) with Abraham. He and his
descendants must follow in the path of
Sarai
captured by
Pharaoh
War of the 4 kings
and the 5 kings
G-d, and G-d would protect and care for
them, and give them the land of Israel.
The command of Circumcision (Brit Milah)
was then given as a symbol of this
covenant. Every newly-born Jewish boy is
circumcised at the age of eight days. Even
though Abraham was 99, he and all the
members of his household under went the
circumcision, and the covenant of Brit
Milah and the Jewish Nation was
established forever!
The third day after Abraham
had his Brit, G-d made the
sun blazing hot, so no-one would
travel and Abraham would
not need to serve any
guests. G-d saw
however, that it
distressed him not to
be able to perform the
Mitzvah of welcoming
guests. So He sent three
angels disguised as weary
travelers to walk towards Abraham’s 4-
doored tent.
Abraham ran to greet them, and invited
them to sit, wash their feet, and partake
of a fine meal. After they had eaten, the
angels told Abraham that they were there
on a mission. Abraham then realized
these men were really angels, messengers
from G-d. The first angel, Rephael, healed
him. The second angel Michael informed
Abraham and Sarah that in exactly one
year a son would be born to them! Sarah
laughed because she and Abraham were
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old, but they were excited and happy and

trusted in G-d.
The third angel Gabriel, was
on his way to Sodom to
destroy the city because the people
were wicked and cruel. Abraham prayed to
G-d, begging him not to destroy Sodom.
But G-d replied that the people were so
very wicked and behaved so terribly
towards one another, that they deserved
to die.
Two of the angels made their way to
Sodom where they rescued Lot and his
family, warning them not to look back at
the death behind them. Lot’s wife was too
curious to obey the angel’s command. She
turned to look back at the fiery
destruction and was punished instantly;
she was turned into a pillar of salt! Where
the beautiful valley of Jordan once stood,
was now salt and
devastation, and a
great sea formed –
the Dead Sea, one
of the saltiest
bodies of water on
earth.
Exactly one year later, G-d’s
promise was fulfilled. When
Abraham was one hundred years old and
his wife Sarah ninety, she gave birth to a
son. When he was eight days old, they
circumcised him, bringing him into the
covenant of G-d, and called him Isaac!
Isaac grew to be a
wonderful boy,
following in the
path of his
parents, but
Hagar and Ishmael
continued to pray to
idols. Sarah noticed this
and was frightened that they would be a
bad influence on Isaac. Hagar and
Ishmael were sent away to the desert, and
Ishmael grew up to become a great archer,
who married and had many children of his
own.
Abraham had endured many hardships
during his lifetime. G-d tested his faith
and his determination to stay true to his
beliefs 9 times. And now, Abraham found
himself tested yet again. When Isaac was
37 years old, G-d appeared suddenly to
Abraham and told him:
“Take your son, your only
son, whom you love, Isaac,
and bring him to Moriah as
an offering on a mountain I
will show you!”
Abraham did not waste an instant. Early
the next morning he immediately saddled
his donkey, prepared wood for the fire,
and took two servants and his beloved son
Isaac with him on a journey.
Abraham did not question, or
beg, or even plead with G-d
for his son. He didn’t even ask how
Isaac would become the father of a large
nation if he was to be killed. He simply did
as G-d commanded.
Isaac was a fully grown man, and he
realized exactly what was going.
Nevertheless, he too went
willingly with his father, happy
to be fulfilling G-d’s command.
After three days of traveling, Abraham
and Isaac reached Mount Moriah. There,
they prepared an altar of wood and stone.
Abraham tied up the son for whom he had
longed and prayed for so many years, and
lifted up the knife, ready to sacrifice him.
The angels watching from heaven above
could not bear to see such a sight. Was
this the reward for such a great and
wonderful man? And what would become
of the Jewish nation? Their tears dripped
down from the skies and fell onto Isaac
below.
Suddenly, a messenger from
G-d called out: “Stop! Do not stretch
out your hand against your son!” Abraham
looked around and saw a ram that had
been caught in a thorn-bush by its horns.
He took the ram and in gratitude, offered
it as a sacrifice to G-d in place of his son.
This was the tenth and final test, known
as the Akedah (binding),
and Abraham had
passed with
flying colors.
He had proved
his loyalty to G-d
and shown he was
truly worthy to be
the father of a great
nation.

Brit Meeting of the

Milah 3 angels 2048

v Names are changed to

Abraham and Sarah 2047
Destruction of
Sodom
Isaac is born

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Every year on Rosh like a father passes on

Hashanah, we blow the the DNA in his genes to
Shofar, made from a ram’s his children, so too we
horn, to remind G-d have all inherited
of the great deed Abraham’s qualities. You
Abraham performed, and may have green eyes like
ask that in his merit, we your mother, or brown hair
should be blessed with a like your father. You may
good, new year. have inherited your sense of
Abraham passed away at humor from your dad, and your
the ripe old age of 175, and was ability to sing from your mom. But
buried in the Cave of Machpelah, in the you have something else as well:
city of Hevron, next to his wife Sarah. Jewish pride, care for others, and
Abraham lived to see the beginning of belief in G-d. That is something
the fulfillment of G-d’s promise to him. each and every Jewish person
He saw his righteous grandson Jacob, has inherited from our
who would grow up to be the father of father of long ago…
the 12 tribes of Israel! Abraham!
There are so many lessons
we can learn from our
forefather Abraham: The great
kindness and compassion he showed for
family, friends and strangers. His warm
hospitality and open home to all
people. His braver y and
determination to what he knew
was right and true. The pride in
his culture, and his way of
life, and of course his
complete and unshakeable
faith in G-d.
Abraham is the father
of the Jewish
nation, and
just

Binding Jacob 2123

of Isaac (Akedah) 2088 born
Year
2200
From Creation
Sarah Marriage 2108 Abraham
passes away of Isaac and Rebecca
passes away
2085
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Fun Page
P i c t o g r a m s
+ the + + on + ( sh) + ( h + + Anna ).

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1. Blow the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah. 2. No leather shoes on Yom Kippur. 3. Written and Sealed in the book of life. 4. Shake the Lulav and Etrog on Sukkot. 5. Dance with the Torah.

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GO FISH!
On Rosh Hashanah, it’s customary to
have the head of a fish on the table. We ask
G-d that this year we should be like the head
and not the tail. We also have a custom to
walk to a body of water on the first day of
Rosh Hashanah (this year since the first day is
Shabbat, we do this on the second day), and
symbolically throw our sins to the fish, asking G-d to
let us start on a fresh, clean slate. This is called the
Tashlich service. Here are some fishy jokes in honor
of our fine, finny friends! What do you
sy call a fish
Why is it so ea with no eyes?
to weigh fi sh ? FSH!
They have their
own scales!

What f
is
like a h sounds
teleph
erring…
ing… h
one?
… herr
Herring
Why couldn’t
the fish afford
a house?
have anemon
Because he didne.
’t

4- SQUARE Using the clues below, can you find four words
I that spell the same word, up and down?
One is completed for you:

I D E A WE crown Hashem as _ _ _ _ of the world.

DO you have an I D E A how to make the

E world a better place?

A good deed is listening to our parents and

making sure our rooms are nice and _ _ _ _.
A WE ask Hashem to open the _ _ _ _ of
heaven and listen to our prayers.

of a fish; 2. Wedge of cheese; 3. Tashlich in a goldfish bowl; 4. Apple on head. Can you find any more?
baseball; 5. Eating Etrog. SIMCHAT TORAH: 1. Throwing a baseball in the synagogue; 2. Dancing with a suitcase; 3. Blowing a Shofar; ROSH HASHANAH: 1. Tail
4. Eating on a fast day; 5. Listening to headphones on a holiday. SUKKOT: 1. A tent Sukkah; 2. Adding flowers to Lulav; 3. Bending Lulav; 4. Using Etrog as
Answers for back cover: YOM KIPPUR: 1. Blowing Shofar from the wrong end; 2.Reading a newspaper in the Synagogue; 3. Holding an umbrella inside;
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YOU BE THE CH
EF!

KIDS
KE
LET’S MA

KREPLACH!
The day before Yom Kippur we eat two festive
meals—one at midday and the other before the

Kitchen
fast which begins at sunset. The Talmud tells us
that whoever eats and drinks on the day before
in Yom Kippur, is considered as if he fasted a full TWO days!

the On the day before Yom Kippur it is customary to eat:

Kreplach! Kreplach are small bundles of rolled pasta
dough, filled with ground beef and folded into
triangles. The red beef symbolizes the severity of
Judgment, while the white dough symbolizes G-d’s
mercy. In preparation for Yom Kippur, the Day of
Judgment, we symbolically “cover” the severity, with
kindness! Interestingly enough, it is also
customary to eat Kreplach on the 7th day
of Sukkot—Hoshanah Rabah!

Enjoy these easy-as-pie,

delicious, Kreplach!

DIRECTIONS
1. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, salt and oil.
2. Check the eggs for bloodspots, then add to the
mixture.
3. Make sure your hands are clean, then knead the
mixture together until it forms a non-sticky
dough.
4. Roll the dough out as thin as possible with the
rolling pin. Hint: Sprinkle a bit of flour on the
counter before you roll out the dough. This will
prevent it from sticking.
5. Cut the dough into approximately 3-inch circles
with a round cookie-cutter.
DOUGH TOOLS
Now it’s time to fill your Kreplach!
1 ¾ cups flour Large mixing bowl 1. Place all the filling ingredients together in a small
bowl and mix well.
2 eggs 2. Carefully place a small teaspoon of the mixture
Small mixing bowl
into the middle of each dough-circle.
½ tsp. salt 3. Fold the edges of the circle inwards, to form a
Wooden mixing rough triangle. You may need an adult assistant
spoon to help you with this part. Hint: Dip your fingers in
3 tbsp. oil cold water and moisten the edges of the Kreplach
before folding, to help the sides stick together.
Rolling pin 4. Your Kreplach are now ready to be boiled and
served in hot chicken soup, or sautéed lightly in
FILLING Round oil!
cookie-cutter
1 cup cooked To Boil: Place Kreplach in boiling salted water. Cook
ground beef for approximately 20 minutes until Kreplach float to
(or chicken) Pot or frying pan the top. They can now be added to the chicken soup.
To Sauté: Heat oil in a frying pan over medium flame.
1 small onion, Sauté boiled Kreplach until golden brown on both
grated Oil for frying sides.
Remember: Kreplach are a meat dish so make sure not to
1 tsp. salt Measuring spoons cook or eat them together with any dairy products! Enjoy!
& measuring cup
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