talya
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Lunchbox Ideas
It’s fun to reinforce the week’s parsha throughout the week, even if you don’t have time for a big project. I have over the years amassed a small collection of shaped cookie cutters, which I mostly use to add fun reminders to lunches. Depending on the size of the cutter and what it is made…
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Rebeccah at the Well
Genesis /Bereishit 24:10 So the servant (Eliezer) took ten (10) [of Abraham’s] camels, and walked… to Nakhor. וַיִּקַּח הָעֶבֶד עֲשָׂרָה גְמַלִּים מִגְּמַלֵּי אֲדֹנָיו וַיֵּלֶךְ… אֶל־עִיר נָחוֹר׃ 24:11 [They waited] by the well outside the city, towards evening, when the girls of the city would come to draw water. וַיַּבְרֵךְ הַגְּמַלִּים מִחוּץ לָעִיר אֶל־בְּאֵר הַמָּיִם לְעֵת…
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The 4th Day
Bereishit / Genesis 1:16 And G-d made the two large lights. The larger light to be on duty during the day, and the smaller light to be on duty at night, and the stars. וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹ-קים אֶת־שְׁנֵי הַמְּאֹרֹת הַגְּדֹלִים אֶת־הַמָּאוֹר הַגָּדֹל לְמֶמְשֶׁלֶת הַיּוֹם וְאֶת־הַמָּאוֹר הַקָּטֹן לְמֶמְשֶׁלֶת הַלַּיְלָה וְאֵת הַכּוֹכָבִים׃ 1:17 And G-d put them in…
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You will be the Head and not the Tail
Deuteronomy / Devarim 25:1 And G-d will make you the head and not the tail; you will be only above and not below, because you heeded the mitzvot of G-d which I am giving you this day to keep and to do. וּנְתָנְךָ ה’ לְרֹאשׁ וְלֹא לְזָנָב וְהָיִיתָ רַק לְמַעְלָה וְלֹא תִהְיֶה לְמָטָּה כִּי־תִשְׁמַע אֶל־מִצְוֺת …
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Helping Raise your Fellow’s Animal
When one sees a person struggling to raise his pack animal, one must help regardless of to whom the animal belongs. In parashat Ki Teitze we are told to help if we see our fellow struggling to raise a fallen animal. In parashat Mishpatim we are told to help our enemy whose pack animal has…
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Helping your Fellow Raise a Fallen Animal
When one sees a person struggling to raise his pack animal, one must help regardless of to whom the animal belongs. In parashat Ki Teitze we are told to help if we see our fellow struggling to raise a fallen animal. In parashat Mishpatim we are told to help our enemy whose pack animal has…
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Sandals
Deuteronomy / Devarim 29:4 And I led you through the desert for forty years; the clothes on your back did not wear out, the sandals did not wear out on your feet; וָאוֹלֵךְ אֶתְכֶם אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה בַּמִּדְבָּר לֹא־בָלוּ שַׂלְמֹתֵיכֶם מֵעֲלֵיכֶם וְנַעַלְךָ לֹא־בָלְתָה מֵעַל רַגְלֶךָ׃ Ingredients as shown: Tools: Instructions: 2. Cut in half, then cut…
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Tzlofchad’s Daughters Bento
Numbers / Bamidbar 26:1 (translation mostly from the JPS in Sefaria.org). When the plague was over, G-d said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, וַיְהִי אַחֲרֵי הַמַּגֵּפָהוַיֹּאמֶר ה’ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה וְאֶל אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן־אַהֲרֹן הַכֹּהֵן לֵאמֹר׃ 26:2 “Take a census of the whole Israelite company [of fighters] from the age of twenty years…
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Balak Bento
Numbers/Bamidbar 22:2 (much of today’s translation was based on the JPS translation in Sefaria.org.) Balak … saw all that Israel did to the Amorites. וַיַּרְא בָּלָק … אֵת כׇּל־אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂה יִשְׂרָאֵל לָאֱמֹרִי׃ 22:3 The Moabites were alarmed … and dreaded the Children of Israel. וַיָּגׇר מוֹאָב מִפְּנֵי הָעָם … וַיָּקׇץ מוֹאָב מִפְּנֵי בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל׃ …
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Eagle
Exodus 19:5: “You saw what I did to the Egyptians; I carried you on the wings of eagles, and brought you to me.” Ingredients: Tools: Instructions: BEFORE MAKING ANY CUTTING, DIP SCISSORS INTO POWDERED SUGAR BAG TO PREVENT SCISSORS FROM STICKING. 1. Cut one flat edge from one marshmallow to reveal sticky side (it will…