Table Talk from the desk of Rabbi Alexander Seinfeld
August 12, 2023 • 25 Menachem Av 5783 • Parshas Re'eh (Deut 11-16)
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Did one of you reading this happen to share last week's Table Talk about children with my 1-year-old grandson?
Because yesterday Menachem - busy, busy, busy - somehow got his hands into a jar not meant for his hands and his mouth onto the contents of the jar that are not meant for his mouth.
The jar is an activity/game that you can get for one of those long August afternoons or for an evening around the campfire.
It's called "Choices in a Jar."
You take turns pulling these dilemma cards out of the container. When it's your turn, you have to answer the question you draw.
Here are two samples that I randomly drew just now in order to share with you . . . try asking them at your table:
1. If you had to choose: Always be tired or always be tense. What's your choice?
2. If you had to choose: Go back in time and say or do one thing you never got to say or do, or take back one thing you said or did. What's your choice?
(Thank you, Menachem, for reminding us of this wonderful family activity.)
Shabbat Shalom
PS - In case you were wondering, the dilemma that Menachem decided to chew on was, If you had to choose: Wear all pink or all purple to school every day. What's your choice?
PPS - Yes, of course the image above is clickable, isn't it always?
Because yesterday Menachem - busy, busy, busy - somehow got his hands into a jar not meant for his hands and his mouth onto the contents of the jar that are not meant for his mouth.
The jar is an activity/game that you can get for one of those long August afternoons or for an evening around the campfire.
It's called "Choices in a Jar."
You take turns pulling these dilemma cards out of the container. When it's your turn, you have to answer the question you draw.
Here are two samples that I randomly drew just now in order to share with you . . . try asking them at your table:
1. If you had to choose: Always be tired or always be tense. What's your choice?
2. If you had to choose: Go back in time and say or do one thing you never got to say or do, or take back one thing you said or did. What's your choice?
(Thank you, Menachem, for reminding us of this wonderful family activity.)
Shabbat Shalom
PS - In case you were wondering, the dilemma that Menachem decided to chew on was, If you had to choose: Wear all pink or all purple to school every day. What's your choice?
PPS - Yes, of course the image above is clickable, isn't it always?
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And yes, both images are clickable!!
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