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10 October 2013

footprints for lech lecha

...like every year we made the footprints walk to remember the journey of Avraham this year as well.

08 October 2013

cheshuvan - mashiv haruach collage

G‑d commanded Avram to leave his father's house and homeland, and travel to the land that He will show him. As reward for doing so, G‑d promised to make Avram the patriarch of a great nation. Avram obeyed, taking along his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot.

Modelling clay project of Avram's journey for youngster

parashah lech lecha

Avram rebuffed the king of Sodom's wish to award him with all the war's spoils. When G‑d reassured Avram that he would be greatly rewarded for his righteousness, Avram broaches his childlessness. "What is the point of all the reward and wealth," Avram cried, "if I have no heir to inherit it?!"
G‑d assured Avram that he will indeed have a child, and promised that Avram's descendents will be as numerous as the stars of the heaven.

G-d's promise to Avram -Stars of heaven Wooden heart

Like every year for parashah Lech Lecha we remembered G.d's promise to Avraham. This year my daughter had their pictures between the stars of heaven on a blue hand painted wooden heart to hang on the wall.

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02 October 2013

parashah noach 2 - Babel

Tower of Babel cut and paste activity

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parashah Noach

G‑d told Noah that he is establishing a covenant to never again bring a flood to destroy the world. G‑d designated the rainbow as the sign of this covenant: "And it shall come to pass, when I cause clouds to come upon the earth, that the rainbow will appear in the cloud. And I will remember My covenant..."

RAINBOWS...

Cotton threads rainbows

Crochet rainbow

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doves necklace

rainbow past necklaces

24 September 2013

simchà Torah flags

Small felt flags for Simchà Torah

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parashah bereshit 2

In the Torah's opening reading, Bereishit, G‑d creates the world in six days and rests on the seventh. On the first day G‑d made darkness and light. On the second day He formed the heavens, dividing the "upper waters" from the "lower waters." On the third day He set the boundaries of land and sea and called forth trees and greenery from the earth. On the fourth day He fixed the position of the sun, moon and stars. Fish, birds and reptiles were created on the fifth day; land-animals, and then the human being, Adam, on the sixth. G‑d ceased work on the seventh day, and sanctified it as a day of rest.

3D seven days of creation frame.