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Here's your countdown to Shavuot.
Earlier this week I was invited to give a somewhat impromptu Sefirat HaOmer class - it may be viewed here.
Try this at your Shabbat table:
During our final matzah meal yesterday, I asked the kids, "What's the one prison in history that no one ever escaped alive?"
The question was prompted by the fact that the Hebrew word for Egypt - Mitzrayim - can also be read mitzrim - borders. It symbolically represents a state of confinement (from which we were famously freed).
They had all kinds of reasonable guesses - Alcatraz, Rikers Island, etc.
All wrong.
Try asking at your table and see what kinds of answers you get.
The answer I was looking for: the human body. No one ever escaped their body alive.
(Don't bring up NDE or astral projecting - that's only a furlough, not an escape.)
Yes, we're stuck in our bodies.
So the next question to ask them is, What does Passover and matzah teach us about how to live while stuck here?
Some parents and a lot of kids are feeling like their home is a prison right now.
Do you know any such parents or kids?
Here are a couple recommended games that we recently added to our rotation:
Anomia
Magnetic dart board
(The rotation idea is to put away games after a few weeks of use, pulling them out again 6-10 months later — renews their interest.)
Please send your recommended new games or activities and I'll try to share them in this space.
Shabbat Shalom
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Here's your countdown to Shavuot.
Earlier this week I was invited to give a somewhat impromptu Sefirat HaOmer class - it may be viewed here.
Try this at your Shabbat table:During our final matzah meal yesterday, I asked the kids, "What's the one prison in history that no one ever escaped alive?"
The question was prompted by the fact that the Hebrew word for Egypt - Mitzrayim - can also be read mitzrim - borders. It symbolically represents a state of confinement (from which we were famously freed).
They had all kinds of reasonable guesses - Alcatraz, Rikers Island, etc.
All wrong.
Try asking at your table and see what kinds of answers you get.
The answer I was looking for: the human body. No one ever escaped their body alive.
(Don't bring up NDE or astral projecting - that's only a furlough, not an escape.)
Yes, we're stuck in our bodies.
So the next question to ask them is, What does Passover and matzah teach us about how to live while stuck here?
Some parents and a lot of kids are feeling like their home is a prison right now.
Do you know any such parents or kids?
Here are a couple recommended games that we recently added to our rotation:
Anomia
Magnetic dart board
(The rotation idea is to put away games after a few weeks of use, pulling them out again 6-10 months later — renews their interest.)
Please send your recommended new games or activities and I'll try to share them in this space.
Shabbat Shalom
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