Dear 6th Grade Parents,
It was a pleasure meeting and
teaching your children this week! I'm pleased to report that my class is highly
animated and quite clever. I look forward to exploring even further into the
Jewish Holidays with them.
In the mean time, I wanted to
fill you in on what we covered this week. We began this evening's lesson by
discussing the Hebrew month of אלול (pronounced Elul) and how this month does
not have any Holidays, and why that might be. We also spoke about how the name
of the month is symbolically appropriate as the letters of אלול form an acronym
for the words of the verse
אני לדודי ודודי לי
"Ani l'dodi v'dodi li" (I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine) (Song of Songs 6:3), and what that means as it pertains to G-d's relationship with the Jewish people.
As a modified version of the
"two truths and a lie" game, we then took some time to reflect on two
things we like about Jewish holidays (either our own family's personal
traditions, or things that all/most Jews do to celebrate Jewish holidays), and
one thing we don't understand about a Jewish holiday. I encourage you to
continue discussing this with your children to explore these ideas further.
Shavuah Tov (Good Week),
Morah Hollenberg
Morah Hollenberg
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