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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 / Shmot 19:4 You saw what I did to Egypt. And I carried you on the wings of Eagles, and brought you to me. אַתֶּם רְאִיתֶם אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתִי לְמִצְרָיִם וָאֶשָּׂא אֶתְכֶם עַל־כַּנְפֵי נְשָׁרִים וָאָבִא אֶתְכֶם אֵלָי׃ Ingredients: Tools: Instructions: BEFORE MAKING ANY CUTTING, DIP SCISSORS INTO POWDERED SUGAR BAG TO PREVENT SCISSORS FROM STICKING.

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  • Bento Choshen

    Text and Translation from Sefaria.com.  Exodus 28:1 et seq.  Translation from Bold Onkelos commentary, Metsudah Pub., 2009 Shmot / Exodus 28:1 And [now separate] and take unto you your brother, Aharon, and his sons with him, from among the B’nei Yisrael, to serve [before] Me [as kohanim]: Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, Elazar, and Isamar, the sons

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  • Jelly Bean Choshen

    Text and Translation from Sefaria.com.  Exodus 28:1 et seq.  Translation from Bold Onkelos commentary, Metsudah Pub., 2009 Shmot / Exodus 28:1 And [now separate] and take unto you your brother, Aharon, and his sons with him, from among the B’nei Yisrael, to serve [before] Me [as kohanim]: Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, Elazar, and Isamar, the sons

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  • Veggie Choshen

    Text and Translation from Sefaria.com.  Exodus 28:1 et seq.  Translation from Bold Onkelos commentary, Metsudah Pub., 2009 Shmot / Exodus 28:1 And [now separate] and take unto you your brother, Aharon, and his sons with him, from among the B’nei Yisrael, to serve [before] Me [as kohanim]: Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, Elazar, and Isamar, the sons

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  • More Sources for Learning

    Weekly Torah Portion | Aish.com: Scroll to the bottom to the “Family” section. They have coloring pages for each week’s parsha (obviously not for Shabbat) to print. When I was teaching, I used to have these printed on huge paper, have the kids color them, paste to thicker board, cut out pieces (cut as appropriate

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  • Cucumber-Basil Baby Moses

    Exodus / Shmot 2:1    Man from the tribe of Levi married a woman from the tribe of Levi.*   וַיֵּלֶךְ אִישׁ מִבֵּית לֵוִי וַיִּקַּח אֶת־בַּת־לֵוִי׃   2:2 And the woman became pregnant, and gave birth, and saw that her son was healthy.**  And she hid him for three months.  וַתַּהַר הָאִשָּׁה וַתֵּלֶד בֵּן וַתֵּרֶא

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