HEY (5th) Blog 22-23

Do you know who Judith Kaplan and Sally Priesand are and why they are important to modern day Judaism?  Ask your child NOT to outright TEll you, but to play 20 questions with you (as we did) to figure this out.  We also continued today with our study of B’nai Mitzvah and looked more closely at some of the parts they might take in their own service.  Will they lead prayers?  Read Torah or HafTorah? Give a D'var Torah?  As an example we looked at the Torah  portion for this week and began to think about what we could write in a D'var Torah about it.  Ask your student to give you some of their ideas (Exodus 21: 1-18). Next week we will look closely at the portion they may be reading for their B’nai Mitzvah.