Pesach

We have been working so hard on learning  the pesach story and learning about pesach. We spoke about King Pharoah and how he made the Jewish people work so hard day and night. They davened (prayed) to Hashem to free them, and Hashem sent Rabbi Moshe to save them. Hashem punished King Pharoah and the Egyptians with ten punishments one of which was frogs jumping all over them. Finally Pharoah agreed to let the Jewish people leave. When they left, however, there were in a hurry , so they mixed flour and water and put it in their backpacks and let the dough bake on their backs. It therefore turned in to FLAT matza.

The Story in a Nutshell ( The adult version;)

After many decades of slavery to the Egyptian pharaohs, during which time the Jewish people were subjected to backbreaking labor and unbearable horrors, G‑d saw the people’s distress and sent Moses to Pharaoh with a message: “Send forth My people, so that they may serve Me.” But despite numerous warnings, Pharaoh refused to heed G‑d’s command. G‑d then sent upon Egypt ten devastating plagues, afflicting them and destroying everything from their livestock to their crops.

At the stroke of midnight of 15 Nissan in the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), G‑d visited the last of the ten plagues on the Egyptians, killing all their firstborn. While doing so, G‑d spared the Children of Israel, “passing over” their homes—hence the name of the holiday. Pharaoh’s resistance was broken, and he virtually chased his former slaves out of the land. The Israelites left in such a hurry, in fact, that the bread they baked as provisions for the way did not have time to rise. Six hundred thousand adult males, plus many more women and children, left Egypt on that day, and began the trek to Mount Sinai and their birth as G‑d’s chosen people.

We are working so hard on our "Number Haggadahs".

 This is page three. We colored THREE  bumpy matzas with a brown crayon over a lego board!



We have been working on being able to recognize numbers 1- 5. Some of us are getting so good at it. We will be practicing more of this after our Pesach break!

Shulie putting three matzas on to the plate with a number three

Sarah putting one apple on to the plate with a number one

Sara putting three matzas on to the plate with a number three

Livia putting two candles on to the plate with a number two

Yael putting two candles on to the plate with a number two

Liam putting two candles on to the plate with a number two

We each had a chance to feel the bumpy matzas during circle time.! Some of us even wanted to try  a piece to see how it tastes:)