Book of Ruth - Needle felted case

The Book of Ruth is found in the third main division of the Tanach, Ketuvim (Writings). The book has been preserved on parchment and thus came to be known by its Hebrew name of Megillat Ruth, the Scroll of Ruth.
This scroll concerns itself with the Ikvot Meshicha (Ikveta diMeshicha - Aramaic), the approaching footsteps of Mashiach. It concerns itself with the time immediately preceeding the coming of the Mashiach. This is related in the parasha of the “heel”: Eikev
This scroll centers around Ruth, a Moabite widowed princess who spends most of her life alone, without a husband, family, and kinsmen. Her life is filled with hardship as she gleans grain in order to have enough to eat. She has no other way to live. Why does she choose to leave her father’s palace in Moab to become a pauper in a foreign land? We will explore the answer to this question later in our study.
Why read Ruth on Shavuot?
There are seven reasons why we read the Megillah of Ruth on Shavuot:
1. The events occurred during the harvest season. Shavuot is the Harvest Festival.
2. Ruth was a convert to Judaism. Conversion is an individual "Kabbalat HaTorah".
3. Ruth the Moabite was permitted to marry Boaz, based on a drasha of the verse, "A Moabite may not marry into the Congregation of HaShem" (Devarim 23:4). This hints at the unity between the Written Torah and the Oral Torah.
4. King David was born on Shavuot. The Megillah of Ruth concludes with David's lineage.
5. To teach the greatness of Gemillut Chassadim, acts of loving-kindness.
6. To teach that the Torah is acquired only through affliction and poverty.
7, The name "Ruth" has the numerical value of 606. At Har Sinai the Jewish People accepted 606 mitzvot, in addition to the 7 Noachide Laws. 

NEEDLE FELTED CASE FOR AN ILLUSTARTED MEGHILLAT

 

Download the illustration for the Book of Ruth

Read the Book of Ruth 

 

The Book of Ruth  Jaromir Vogel - Jewish Style Melodies: Traditional Folk 

 

 Ruth -  Katharine Doob Sakenfeld

Gragger and Meghillat case

Purim is just around the corner, and my children wanted a gragger and meghillat case project to do all by themselves... and they did it!!

While the one my kids did is a simple revisited noisemaker let's spend Jìjust few words about the "dragger".
A ratchet, also called a noisemaker (or, when used in Judaism, a gragger or grogger (etymologically from Yiddish: גראַגער‎) or ra'ashan (Hebrew: רעשן‎)), is an orchestral musical instrument played by percussionists. Operating on the principle of the ratchet device, a gearwheel and a stiff board is mounted on a handle, which rotates freely.
The player holds the handle and swings the whole mechanism around. The momentum makes the board click against the gearwheel, producing a clicking and rattling noise. A popular design consists of a thick wooden cog wheel attached to a handle and two wooden flanges that alternately hit the teeth of the cog when the handle turns. Alternatively, smaller ratchets are sometimes held still or mounted and the handle turned rapidly by the player. The mounted ratchets allow for greater control of the duration and timing of the sound. This allows the ratchet to be used like a snare drum, placing sustained rolls in precise durations of time. Dynamics are controlled by the rate at which the ratchet is rotated.

Meghillat of Ruth and paper case

The Book of Ruth is recited as part of the program of study for Shavuot night. Additionally, in many synagogues it is read publicly on the second day of Shavuot. There are several reasons for this custom:
Shavuot is the birthday and yahrtzeit (anniversary of passing) of King David, and the Book of Ruth records his ancestry. Ruth and her husband Boaz were King David’s great-grandparents.
The scenes of harvesting described in the book of Ruth are appropriate to the Festival of Harvest.
Ruth was a sincere convert who embraced Judaism with all her heart. On Shavuot all Jews were converts,having accepted the Torah and all of its precepts.

Illustrated Meghillat of Ruth paper case

IIlustrated meghillat for children case made with roll of paper towels covered with wrapping paper.
Download the illustrations HERE 

Meghillot

Meghillot of Ester crafts

Megillat Ester sequencing Castle

Review the Purim story with this sequencing activity. Children must use their memory of Megillat Ester to place the illustrations inside the royal palace in the proper order. Then
they get to color it all in!  The illustrations provided are from The Story of Purim by the Walder Education Pavilion of Torah Umesorah.

By The Torah Umesorah St. Louis Teachers’ Resource Center
Designed by: Mrs. Korey Fredman

Meghillat cases for Purim

Children Meghillat cases from paper towels rolls

Paper towels rolls, pipe plugs, adhesive coating paper.

Purim -- meghillat Esther

Purim - Meghillah Ester craft

Foam Faux-Mosaic Megilla Cover
Design a mosaic Megillah case out of a can and foam shapes that is both feather light and elegant. You can think there are a number of steps to create the cover but once you did it, it is not actually as hard as it looks. This is a craft that the children will take pride in creating and will be treasured for years to come.

Purim - meghillot Ester

Meghillat craft:
Seven small toy colourfull felt hand sewed and decorated meghillot Ester for Purim
with wooden sticks,beads, paper.