Dear Fourth-Sixth Grade Families:
It's hard to believe we only have one more week left of
religious school. This has been such a
great learning growth year for all of our students. This week we discussed the counting of the
Omer. We begin counting 49 days from the
second night of Passover to Shavuot. We
discussed that we are in mourning for all the Jews who died in the plague and
how we aren't supposed to get married, shave or buy new things during this
time. However, on ל״ג בעומר, the 33rd day of the Omer (ל-30, ג-3), we are able to celebrate because it was the
first day that the plague stopped spreading.
We celebrate with bbq's and bonfires.
Jews get married, shave and rejoice.
Hebrew this week was centered around further increasing
our fluency. We played a game similar to
tic-tac-toe, but with each team needing to get four in a row. We all had a lot of fun.
I wish all the moms a very Happy Mother's Day and a
beautiful Shabbat!
Donna Katz
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