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Dear Kindergarten Parents of the Purple Room,

Kriyah -  Hebrew Reading

Kindergarten reviewed Shabbat words this week:   שבת (Shabbos),  דג (dohg) – fish, בשר  (bosor) – meat,  יין (yayin) – wine, חלה  (challah),  נרות / נר (ner/neros) - candle/candles, שמור  (shamor) – guard, זכור (zochor) - remember. They learned about the gematria (numerical value) of many of the Shabbat words and found that when they added the digits of the words they came to 7! What a hint to use these items on the 7th day of the week, Shabbat!

Shabbat

Creating Challah plates, Kiddush cups, Shabbat Art, and Havdala items such as Havadala candles and besomim boxes were just a few of the many creations Kindergarten made this week. They had so much fun spray painting the tablecloths and making napkin rings for the CJP Shabbat dinner. Spray painting has been strongly requested to be repeated. The Kindergarten created special Shabbat necklaces for their moms to wear at the dinner...,.

Kindergarten is eager to share at the CJP Shabbat dinner interesting facts about Shabbat. For example: why we light at least TWO Shabbat candles, and why we have TWO challos for Shabbos. They can’t wait for the Shabbat dinner!

Kindergarten learned about the ‘goodbye service’, aka Havdala, we make to say goodbye to Shabbat at the end of the Shabbat day. They know that we receive an extra neshama for Shabbat and when that goes away at the end of the Shabbat day, we feel a bit sad. We therefore inhale the delicious invigorating smell of the besomim at the Havdala ceremony. They learned how at the Havdala service we light the Havdala candle and then later put it out and see the difference between light and dark which reminds us of the difference between holy and mundane, Shabbat and weekdays.

Parsha

Kindergarten learned about many items that were made for the Mishkan (Tabernacle). One of these items was the Menorah. Kindergarten visited the Chabad shul to explore the Menorah they found there. There are many different ways of making a menorah but Kindergarten learned that the shape of the menorah that was built for the Mishkan (used in the desert) and later put in the Beis Hamikdash in Israel had 7 straight branches, in addition to cups that faced downwards and pretty flowers on the branches, too. They know the menorah had SEVEN branches with the three flames on either side of the center bent toward the center flame. What a nes (miracle)!

Shabbat Shalom!

Morah Perline