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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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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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Celery Locust
Shmot / Exodus 10:1 (translation is somewhat paraphrased and interpreted for the sake of clarity of the story and accuracy of meaning) And G-d said to Moses: come to Pharaoh, for I have burdened (traditionally translated as hardened) his heart, and that of his servants, so as to create the opportunity of displaying my signs*…
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Parashat Va’eira: The lessons we learn as children shape us.
Almost every Jew, no matter how removed or secular, attends Passover seder most years. Since childhood, we learn that being who we are matters, and our lives matter and are worth defending, but that we still do not rejoice in the pain of others, ever of our enemies, even if they are trying to kill…